Category: Travel
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THE WORLD’S TEN BEST AIRPORTS FOR 2026: WHEN THE JOURNEY BECOMES THE DESTINATION
An indoor rainforest in Singapore, traditional Korean architecture in Seoul, a Roman museum in Istanbul and a working brewery in Munich. The world’s best airports have become increasingly ambitious destinations in their own right, bringing together architecture, culture and hospitality in places once designed primarily to move passengers from one aircraft to another. The 2026…
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How to Eat in Venice
The city that travel writing has chronically miseaten — and where to go instead The received wisdom about food in Venice is that it is disappointing — that the restaurants are tourist traps, that the quality is poor relative to the price, that the city’s geography makes it impossible for ingredients to arrive fresh and…
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A Thousand Years for a Conversation: Nebbia’s Interlude in New Zealand
On the shores of Lake Whakatipu, London-based architecture studio Nebbia has completed an extraordinary public sculpture designed to endure for a millennium. Part monument, part meeting place, Interlude challenges the increasingly short lifespan of contemporary design. In April 2026, an unusual structure appeared above Lake Whakatipu, near Queenstown on New Zealand’s South Island. At first…
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A Little Rome in Hong Kong: The World’s Best Bar and the City That Made It Possible
In the crowded streets of Hong Kong’s Sheung Wan district, an Italian neighbourhood bar has achieved something extraordinary. Bar Leone, founded by Roman bartender Lorenzo Antinori and his business partner Justin Shun Wah, has been named the world’s best bar for the second consecutive year. Its success reveals something fascinating about contemporary hospitality, and about…
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THE WORLD’S TEN BEST AIRLINES FOR 2026: WHO REALLY GETS FLYING RIGHT?
Singapore Airlines has reclaimed the title of world’s best airline, but the 2026 rankings reveal something more interesting than a change at the top. Asian and Middle Eastern carriers continue to dominate international aviation, while the strongest competitors are distinguishing themselves through cabin design, dining, service and increasingly sophisticated onboard technology. We examine the ten…
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FAIRYLAND: TIM WALKER AND THE POLITICS OF BEING SEEN
At London’s National Portrait Gallery, the photographer who transformed fashion into elaborate theatre turns his imagination towards queer history. With some 250 portraits spanning activists, artists, performers and cultural pioneers, Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends is at once a celebration of difference, an examination of historical visibility and a deeply personal reconsideration of the…
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Athens, Unclassified: The Current Exhibitions at EMST
From experimental music and overlooked Greek avant-gardes to the changing geography of contemporary art, Athens’ National Museum of Contemporary Art presents an unusually compelling autumn programme. An ordinary metal drying rack, its clothing replaced by silkscreen prints of abstract landscapes, is among the works in Niki Kanagini’s retrospective at Athens’ National Museum of Contemporary Art.…
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Hacienda Subín: Laura Kirar and Richard Frazier’s Remarkable Restoration in Yucatán
Outside Mérida, a seventeenth-century estate has been brought back into use by two artists and collectors whose fascination with architecture, craftsmanship and cultural history has shaped an unusually personal restoration. When American designer Laura Kirar and her husband, Richard Frazier, acquired Hacienda Subín in 2008, much of the property had been abandoned for decades. Trees…
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Yucatán: A Cultural Journey Beyond the Caribbean Coast
Ancient Maya cities, henequen haciendas, colonial architecture and a flourishing contemporary cultural scene make Mexico’s Yucatán one of the Americas’ most rewarding destinations for travellers interested in art, history and design. The great Maya city of Uxmal lies among the low hills and dry forests south of Mérida. Its buildings were constructed more than a…
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GOD SAVE THE QUEENS: THE WOMEN WHO INVENTED PUNK’S FUTURE
Fifty years after punk erupted into British cultural life, a landmark exhibition at London’s Museum of Youth Culture challenges one of popular music’s most persistent historical distortions. Through previously unseen archives, photography, fashion and fine art, God Save the Queens restores the women who shaped punk to their rightful place: not at the margins of…
