Category: Museums

  • Copenhagen Now – September 2026

    Copenhagen Now – September 2026

    Music, Design, Fashion, Literature, Film, Hotels, Food, Art & the City The City Between Summer and Seriousness There is a particular moment in Copenhagen when summer has not quite disappeared, but the cultural year has unmistakably begun. The evenings can still be spent outside, Tivoli is still illuminated, bicycles continue to crowd the bridges and…

  • What’s Going On This Autumn?

    What’s Going On This Autumn?

    What’s on in the world’s cultural capitals from September through December 2026 — the exhibitions, operas, theatre, and art fairs worth travelling for…

  • The Season Opens

    The Season Opens

    The Passenger is a weekly dispatch on travel — places, hotels, restaurants, the strange logistics of being elsewhere. It is written by Bergotte. Vienna in September, and what happens when a city built for culture remembers what it is for Vienna in July and August belongs, with varying degrees of reluctance, to the tourists. They…

  • Harumi Klossowska de Rola at Villa Kérylos

    Harumi Klossowska de Rola at Villa Kérylos

    Culture · Art The Animal Remembers Harumi Klossowska de Rola at Villa Kérylos In a house built from a modern dream of ancient Greece, the Swiss artist’s bronze creatures ask what happens when humanity returns the animal world to the realm of the sacred. By Bergotte Harumi Klossowska de Rola, Chinook (Salmon), 2024, bronze, 28…

  • The Light Does Something Different Here

    The Light Does Something Different Here

    The Passenger is a weekly dispatch on travel — places, hotels, restaurants, the strange logistics of being elsewhere. It is written by Bergotte. Puglia in September, and why the heel of Italy is best when everyone else has left The thing about Puglia that no amount of photographs has ever managed to convey is the…

  • See Something – Irving Penn 2026

    See Something – Irving Penn 2026

    The Passenger is a weekly dispatch on travel — places, hotels, restaurants, the strange logistics of being elsewhere. See Something Irving Penn is everywhere in 2026. Three cities, three exhibitions, and the case for making a trip specifically to see him Irving Penn directed his models with two words. Not an expression — he was…

  • Paris in September: Vincent Beaurin at Galerie Poggi

    Paris in September: Vincent Beaurin at Galerie Poggi

    Vincent Beaurin trained as a silversmith, worked as a designer, blew paint at canvases, and eventually found his way to the disc — the simplest form available, saturated with the colour of the last light before the sun disappears. A retrospective profile ahead of his show at Galerie Poggi.

  • The Sweetest Month

    The Sweetest Month

    The Passenger is a weekly dispatch on travel — places, hotels, restaurants, the strange logistics of being elsewhere. It is written by Bergotte. Why serious travellers go to Sicily in September August in Sicily is a fact of nature rather than a choice. The island sits in the middle of the Mediterranean like a stone…

  • The City That Comes Back to Itself

    The City That Comes Back to Itself

    The Passenger is a weekly dispatch on travel — places, hotels, restaurants, the strange logistics of being elsewhere. It is written by Bergotte. Paris, and why September is the only month that matters There is a particular quality of light in Paris in late August that travel writing has never quite managed to capture, perhaps…

  • The Decorated Life: The Bloomsbury Group, Charleston, and the Art of Living Differently

    The Decorated Life: The Bloomsbury Group, Charleston, and the Art of Living Differently

    They remade British culture, reinvented the novel, revolutionised art criticism, and painted every available surface of a Sussex farmhouse in colours that the English countryside had never previously entertained. A century later, the Bloomsbury Group remains the most argued-about, most imitated, and most misunderstood intellectual community in English literary history. By Bergotte There is a…