On Giudecca, just across the way from the main Venetian archipelago, the distinctive red brick complex has been a city landmark for years. A four-year, 200 million-Euro restoration has carefully incorporated its original factory architecture with all the mod-cons of contemporary hostelry, including those, like a rooftop pool, that are new to Venice.
In Madrid, it's arts galore all summer long. Now in its 24th year, Madrid’s summer festival includes many free events and, for the next few days, there’ll even be dancing in the streets.
There they were, mounded into a perfect pyramid of delicate symmetry. They looked like French macarons, and they were being distributed at Art Basel. A rosy pink inside and out, they were more lovely, more moving, more -- impactful!-- than just about anything else I'd seen
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