Berlin News
Restoration of Berlin Neues Museum completed
The keys to the Neues Museum on Berlin’s Museum Island have been officially handed to the city after 11 years of restoration costing over €200 million. British architect David Chipperfield...
Barcelona News
Barcelona performance artist Muma Soler is calling for 1,170 volunteers to light the 119,000 candles that will make up the installation
Madrid News
Arts outreach programme in Madrid.
The Madrid city council has announced the fourth edition of the annual Distrito Artes programme which extends theatre, dance, cinema and music events away from the city centre and out into the capital
Amsterdam News
Amsterdam City of Art in 2009.
The opening of two important museums and the staging of numerous exclusive exhibitions have led the Netherlands Tourist Board to declare Amsterdam a City of Art in 2009.
The new Hermitage Amsterdam...
London News
Honour for iconic British comedian Peter Cook.
Recently voted the comedian's favourite comedian Peter Cook, who died in 1995, has been honoured with a Heritage Foundation plaque at the site of the Soho comedy club he opened in the early 1960s.
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Barcelona News
Free entry to Barcelona museums on Sunday afternoons
Municipal museums in the Catalan capital are to open free of charge on Sundays from 15.00-20.00 as of 1 April 2009. The initiative, sponsored by the city council, is part of mayor Jordi Hereu
Vienna News
Otto Wagner art nouveau map of Vienna.
The Vienna Architecture Centre has produced a special tourist map of the Austrian capital highlighting buildings designed by Otto Wagner (1841-1918), one of the great pioneers of Viennese art nouveau....
Copenhagen News
Tours of new Copenhagen concert venue.
The Danish Broadcasting Corporation is offering guided tours of the recently inaugurated international music venue in Copenhagen's
Dublin News
"The Last Picture Show"
After a period of nine busy years, the Lemonstreet Gallery is sadly closing its doors at the end of this month. The gallery first opened in 2000 in Lemon Street, off Grafton S...
Brussels News
Humidity damages Brussels museum paintings.
A faulty air-conditioning system has been blamed for damage done to a number of 15th and 16th-century paintings held in a temporary depository at the Brussels Museum of Ancient Art. The damage, caused...
Amsterdam News
Ramsey Nasr elected Dutch Poet Laureate.
Dutch/Palestinian poet and actor Ramsey Nasr (1974-) has been chosen as Holland
Vienna News
Vienna celebrates Haydn Year 2009.
The life and works of Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) are to be celebrated throughout Austria this year to mark the 200th anniversary of the Austrian composer
Berlin News
Berlinale to feature Cold War films.
Feature movies and documentaries as well as short, animated and experimental films made during the last years of the Cold War are to be spotlighted in Berlin
Oxford News
Oxford Brookes University is hosting the annual PBFA Oxford Book Fair on 24 and 25 January, with over 75 booksellers offering more than 50,000 antiquarian and second-hand books, antique prints, maps a...
Barcelona News
Barcelona El-Molino theatre to reopen
The historic El Molino music hall in Paral-lel is to reopen its doors at the end of next year, following a lengthy restoration project that has seen the complete gutting of the building behind the fam...
