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...Amsterdam was a hotbed of conceptual art in the 1960s and '70s. In its damp studios and fetid cafés, artists from dozens of countries came together in the belief that the ideas behind a work were more important than the work itself. (See Time.com/Travel for city guides, stories and advice...
Birthday Bonus. OpenSkies, the luxe airline that flies from New York's JFK to Paris and Amsterdam, is celebrating its first birthday by giving away a business class ticket per day for the next year. Each month, through May 2010, OpenSkies will pick 30 winners from a different birth month. (Confusingly, in June, people who were born in October are eligible to win.) To enter the lottery, register here by June 19. Or, take advantage of a sure thing: OpenSkies has a sale on Biz class seats through June 30, with $550 one-way fares to Paris...
Tintin fans will rejoice in finally having a permanent tribute to Hergé's creation. And the new Magritte Museum in Brussels was also long overdue, says Charly Herscovici, head of the Magritte Foundation: "Brussels needs a Magritte museum just like Paris has a Picasso museum and Amsterdam a Van Gogh museum." Housed in the prim, neoclassical Hotel Altenloh just a stone's throw from the Royal Palace, the Magritte Museum is part of the complex of buildings that comprise Belgium's Royal Museums of Fine Art. But the sober-minded setting is something of a deception: echoing the artist...
...Renaissance Italy. “The intellectual environment is so vibrant,” Tacconi said. “I really don’t think I could have written my book without it.”Machtelt Israels, a fellow in 2004-2005 from the University of Amsterdam, echoed Tacconi’s sentiment about the value of bringing scholars from across disciplines and countries together.“I think the place is a kind of arcadia,” Israels said. “Once you’ve got in there, you’re part...
...effort to gain operating efficiencies and to outmaneuver rivals, some of Europe's main rail operators are already forming partnerships. SNCF, for example, runs a high-speed Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam-Cologne service called Thalys along with Belgian rail operator Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Belge (SNCB) and Germany's Deutsche Bahn (DB). DB also uses the French company's track to operate its high-speed Intercity-Express (ICE) trains between eastern France and Paris. But, despite their cooperation on some routes, DB and SNCF are locking horns over Eurostar. The French have a majority stake...