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The tour of Sex and the City Hotspots incorporates more than 40 locations from the movie and the TV show including the shop where Charlotte bought her "Rabbit,” the trendy Meatpacking District, and a stop to drink a cosmopolitan at the bar owned by Aidan. It’s the perfect mix of shopping, drinking, and sightseeing in the hip neighborhoods of New York City. There are also locations from Sex and the City: The Movie interspersed in the tour.

The package costs $179 per ticket and departs at 2pm in front of Pulitzer Fountain on Fifth Avenue. For more information or to purchase tickets follow this link . . . or call 212-209-3370.

On Location tours has launched Sex and the City girlfriend getaways and bachelorette packages that include the tour of Sex and the City Hotspots by limousine, dinner at a location used in the show, and entrance into one of the nightclubs where scenes from Sex and the City were filmed!

On Location Tours, Inc. is a bus tour company based in New York City, specializing in TV and movie location tours. On Location Tours also operates the tour of Sopranos Sites and Gossip Girl Sites, the New York TV and Movie Sites, Washington DC TV and Movie Sites, and the Central Park Movie Sites. The company was founded in 1999, by Georgette Blau, a 1996 graduate of Skidmore College.]]> Noteworthy http://luxurytraveler.com/blogindex.php?itemid=2509 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:16:13 -0500 http://luxurytraveler.com/blogindex.php?itemid=2488 Impressionists’ pictorial solutions and the most recent scientific insights in the fields of physiology
and chromatics, Georges Seurat developed the method that went down in art history as Pointillism
and became an important source of inspiration for later artists. Runs to: May 9, 2010 at the Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt Use this link for more information . . .]]> Art http://luxurytraveler.com/blogindex.php?itemid=2488 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0500 http://luxurytraveler.com/blogindex.php?itemid=2486 More information
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Art Antiques London will be held in a beautiful custom-built marquee opposite the Royal Albert Hall, adjacent to the site of the Great Exhibition of 1851. The Fair’s participants are leading specialists in a wide range of disciplines, including furniture, paintings, jewellery, clocks, textiles, silver and ceramics, as well as rare books and modern and contemporary objet d’art. Every object exhibited at the Fair is rigorously examined and vetted for quality and authenticity, so collectors can be assured they can buy with confidence. The Fair will also host a full programme of lectures and seminars that will make Art Antiques London an important destination for international collectors and institutions, and a glamorous Charity Gala evening that will ensure the Fair will become a fixture in the Capital’s social calendar.

Art Antiques London will incorporate the International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, which has been a fixture in the London calendar for almost thirty years. Organiser and porcelain expert Brian Haughton is presenting an important Meissen Cream Pot, cover and stand painted by B. G. Haüer with campaign scenes, c.1740, an extremely rare Nymphenburg shell butter box and cover, modelled by Dominikus Auliczek from 1765-1770, and a Böttger White Meissen Porcelain Coffee Pot and cover, gilded with Chinese figures and magicians, c. 1718-20. E & H Manners will show a stunning Doccia figure of Arlecchina, c 1750 and a charming faceted wine glass, 1730, formerly from the Otto Meyer Collection, decorated in Schwarzlot and gold by Ignaz Preissler. Other ceramics dealers exhibiting at the Fair include Dragesco-Cramoisan, Kunsthandel Daniela Kumpf, Stockspring Antiques and Adrian Sassoon. Paintings and drawings from 18th century to the present day will be shown at the Fair. Lowell Libson will be bringing a wonderful Lear watercolour entitled, The Cedars of Lebanon. MacConnal-Mason is offering a superb painting by L S Lowry, dated 1951. Entitled The Gateway, the painting was first sold in 1955 for £57.00 and was last exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1976. It is a wonderful example of Lowry’s muted colour palette of ivory, black, flake white and yellow ochre.

The Maas Gallery is presenting a beautiful oil portrait by Sir Gerald Kelly entitled Sao Ohn Nyun V. dated 1932. It is the fifth and most enigmatic of the series of the same name. After an unhappy love affair in Paris, Kelly went to Burma on the advice of the writer Somerset Maugham, who lent him £50 for the journey. In Burma he fell in love anew, but this time with an ideal of Eastern beauty, exoticism and mystery. Back in London, he finally met the Bust of Michelangelo
wearing Van Dyck costume, 1834, G. Rigali, plaster Exhibitor: William Agnew embodiment of that dream in the form of Sao Ohn Nyun, the sister-in-law of the Rajah of Thi-Paw. The painting comes on to the market having been in private ownership for some years.

Lucy B Campbell will be bringing works by Juan Luque (b. 1964); Anna Pugh (b. 1938) and Mia Tarney (b. 1973). Spanish painter Luque, is fascinated with the textures and treatment of light on the open sea when it encounters solitary lighthouses or ships. He has twice won the Medal for painting at BMW’s Awards in Madrid and the first prize at the Focus Awards in Seville.

H. Blairman & Sons Ltd, who specialise in furniture from the early 19th to the early 20th century with a strong interest in beautifully designed, documented furniture and works of art from the later
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is presenting a set of six Willow Tea Room chairs by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, manufactured by Alex Martin. A plaster bust of Michelangelo wearing Van Dyck costume by the Italian sculptor Rigali who was working in Edinburgh in the early
19th century, signed and dated G. Rigali Edinb 1834, is being shown by sculpture and works of art specialist, W. Agnew & Co. Ltd.

Rare and collectable antique Indian jewellery from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries will be shown by both Susan Ollemans and Samina Khanyari. Susan Ollemans will be showing a nine stone pendant or Navaratna inset in the kundun style with cabochon stones representing the cosmos. A ruby in the centre represents the sun, with other precious stones arranged around it. Once the gems are in harmony around the ‘sun’, the spirit of order is said to bring peace to the wearer. Sandra Cronan and Nigel Norman will be exhibiting a wide range of fine jewels from the 17th to the early 20th centuries.

Among the highlights being shown by Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art from Kyoto, Japan, is a pair of Japanese six-fold screens inlaid with cloud-like gold leaf and beautifully painted with a depiction of stabled horses, from the mid-16th century. Laura Bordignon, a specialist in Japanese ivory and bronze from the Meiji period, will be presenting a Japanese ‘koro’, or incense burner with silver and enamel mounts and ivory shibayama decorated with flowers and birds.

Raffety & Walwyn, the clock and barometer specialists, will be bringing a fine example of a George III period musical lacquer belltop bracket clock made by George Prior, from 1770 and an important James II ebonised longcase clock by Thomas Tompion. St. James’s clock specialist, John Carlton-Smith, will also be exhibiting at the Fair.

The lecture and seminar programme will offer a series of thought - provoking lectures on a wide variety of topics given by distinguished art historians, including Dame Rosalind Savill, Director of the Wallace Collection; Dr. Ulrich Pietsch, Director of the Porcelain Collection, Dresden; Philippa Glanville, former Assistant Keeper, Department of Metalwork, Victoria and Albert Museum, and Dr. Dora Thornton, Curator, Renaissance Collections of the British Museum.

The inaugural Charity Gala evening at Art Antiques London will benefit the Bush Theatre, which has been at the heart of British Theatre since its inception in 1972. The Bush launched the careers of many highly distinguished writers and playwrights including Stephen Poliakoff, Victoria Wood and Billy Roche. The Bush Theatre also hosts an ambitious professional development and outreach programme bushfutures which provides opportunities for different sectors of the community and emerging artists to access the expert ise of the Bush, and to play an active role in the future development of the theatre.]]> Fine Arts - Antiques http://luxurytraveler.com/blogindex.php?itemid=2485 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0600 http://luxurytraveler.com/blogindex.php?itemid=2484 LifeStyle: Fine Dining
Beverley, England -- The Pipe and Glass Inn in Beverley is the sixth and latest venue in the county to have been awarded the prestigious star which recognises the finest cooking throughout the world.

Kate and James MacKenzie, owners of the Pipe and Glass Inn, join Yorkshire's star line up of The Yorke Arms in Ramsgill; The Burlington at The Devonshire Arms in Bolton Abbey; The Box Tree in Ilkley; Star Inn at Harome and The Old Vicarage in Sheffield, all of whom have a commitment to making the best of Yorkshire's produce.

The Michelin Guide for Great Britain & Ireland 2010 also awards Rising Stars to restaurants to watch in the future. The Black Swan in Oldstead in North Yorkshire received one of only three Rising Stars awarded this year in the UK.

Yorkshire pips Kent to the post of county with the most Michelin starred restaurants, with the Lake District coming a fabulous fourth with four Michelin Stars. These include The Samling at Windermere; The Holbeck Ghyll, Windermere; Sharrow Bay, Ullswater and L'Énclume, Cartmel.

Follow this link for further information . . . ]]> LifeStyles http://luxurytraveler.com/blogindex.php?itemid=2484 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0600 http://luxurytraveler.com/blogindex.php?itemid=2506
Featured are Anthony van Dyck's Samson and Delilah, c. 1619-20; Nicolas Poussin's Nurture of Jupiter, c. 1636-37; Rembrandt van Rijn's Girl at a Window, 1645; Peter Lely's Nymphs by a Fountain, c. 1650; Gerrit Dou's Woman Playing a Clavichord, c. 1665; Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's Flower Girl, c. 1665; Jean-Antoine Watteau's Les Plaisirs du bal, c. 1717; Canaletto's Old Walton Bridge, 1754; and Thomas Gainsborough's Elizabeth and Mary Linley-The Linley Sisters, 1771-72. On view in the Oval Room and Garden Court, the exhibition is co-organized by Colin B. Bailey, Associate Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of The Frick Collection, and Xavier F. Salomon, Arturo and Holly Melosi Chief Curator at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Comments Colin B. Bailey, "As Dulwich Picture Gallery approaches the celebration of its bicentenary, we at The Frick Collection are the happy beneficiaries of a loan of nine of the collection's finest old master paintings. This extraordinary group of 17th- and 18th-century works, to be mounted in the Frick's Oval Room and Garden courtyard, is the latest in an well-regarded series of dossier exhibitions, devoted to great works of art from collections that may be less familiar to New Yorkers."

Principal funding for the exhibition is provided by Christie's and Melvin R. Seiden. Additional support is generously provided by John and Constance Birkelund, Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Eberstadt, Fiduciary Trust Company International, Barbara G. Fleischman, Francis Finlay, and Hester Diamond. The accompanying catalogue is made possible by Jon and Barbara Landau. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

Dates: March 9 through May 30, 2010 at The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021; (212) 547-6844 More info online? Use this link. . . ]]> Art http://luxurytraveler.com/blogindex.php?itemid=2506 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:18:45 -0600 http://luxurytraveler.com/blogindex.php?itemid=2483
International meeting place for culture • The fair is attended by 15,000 art lovers from all parts of the world each year. 1,300 square meters of exhibition space are available to over 40 exhibitors in the historic rooms, decorated during the 18th century with frescoes by Lukas von Hildebrandt und ceiling paintings by Johann Michael Rottmayr and Marino Altomonte. The exhibitors, who rank among the best in the branch, present an impressive, diversified selection of merchandise of exquisite quality. The sculpture collection unveils the mysteries of Gothic statuary. The antique furniture displayed at the fair in Salzburg, attracting aficionados of fine interior design, runs the gamut of elegant home living from centuries past.

A high-profile cultural experience • The art gallery displays paintings from the 17th century to modern times. Antique carpets and clocks, whose cases and precision clockwork date back to the height of Viennese clock making, are certain to find admirers. A variety of other gems - whether sparkling jewelry, decorative silver, glass craftsmanship from five centuries, icons, folk art and scientific instruments - give the Salzburg Art & Antiques Fair its unique flair. Dates: March 27 - April 5, 2010 Follow this link for more information ]]> Fine Arts - Antiques http://luxurytraveler.com/blogindex.php?itemid=2483 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0600 http://luxurytraveler.com/blogindex.php?itemid=2493
Featuring an original commissioned score by renowned composer Lera Auerbach, Neumeier’s contemporary version of The Little Mermaid is a haunting tale of two divergent worlds: the serenity and simplicity of underwater life and the complex, often flamboyant lives of humans. The mermaid heroine travels through both worlds, enduring torment because of her committed love for a prince—but through her own strength in the end—transcends. Composer: Lera Auerbach Choreographer: John Neumeier

Performance dates: Sat Mar 20, 8pm* | Sun Mar 21, 2pm* | Tue Mar 23, 8pm | Wed Mar 24, 7:30pm• | Thu Mar 25, 8pm | Fri Mar 26, 8pm* | Sat Mar 27, 2pm | Sat Mar 27, 8pm | Sun Mar 28, 2pm

Please Note: This critically acclaimed production focuses on the deeper, mature themes of the original story and is not recommended for younger children. ]]> Performances http://luxurytraveler.com/blogindex.php?itemid=2493 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:27:57 -0600 http://luxurytraveler.com/blogindex.php?itemid=2492
This year visitors will enjoy a broad range of isciplines with excellence and diversity being key, work includes fine English furniture, important paintings contributing the strongest-ever contingent of Modern British painting at the Fair, textiles, clocks, glass and ceramics and
jewellery. Long standing participants include Thomas Coulborn & Sons, Lennox Cato, Sandra Cronan, Raffety & Walwyn, Duncan Miller and Frank Partridge will bring items of the highest calibre. Making their debut are eleven newcomers including Moore-Gwyn Fine Art, Godson &
Coles and Sim Fine Art. The loan exhibition entitled, Heroes or Villains? Gives visitors a
unique opportunity to view one of the world’s greatest private collections of celebrity
memorabilia assembled by David Gainsborough Roberts over nineteen years. The 18th
anniversary of The BADA Antiques & Fine Art Fair March 2010 promises to be its best yet.
Below is a selection of twenty highlights taken from all disciplines available at the Fair.

Event recap • The Fair is open to the public from March 17-23, 2010. The Charity Gala Evening in aid of Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research takes place on Thursday 18 March 2010.
Venue: The BADA Antiques & Fine Art Fair, The Duke of York Square, Chelsea, London SW3 4LY
BADA Fair Office, 20 Rutland Gate, London, SW7 1BD, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7589 6108 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7581 9083 Ticket prices: £10 for a single ticket, £15 for a double. All tickets include a BADA Handbook and one re-entry pass per person. Ticket Booking Forms are available on the website.
Opening times: 17 March: 11am to 9pm. 18 March: 11am to 5.30pm. 20, 21 & 23 March:
11am to 6pm. 19 & 22 March: 11am to 8pm.

Further information is available online by using this link . . . ]]> Fine Arts - Antiques http://luxurytraveler.com/blogindex.php?itemid=2492 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:33:51 -0600 http://luxurytraveler.com/blogindex.php?itemid=2482 In contrast to last year’s event, the 2010 Promenade presents up to three sculptures by each artist, making this the largest sculpture installation yet seen on the lawns of the Fitzwilliam.
Opens 23 March Follow this link for further information . . . .]]> Art http://luxurytraveler.com/blogindex.php?itemid=2482 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:40:45 -0600