This is artist Olafur Eliasson’s installation, Your Rainbow Panorama, a walkway circling and capping the ARoS Art Museum, itself a jewel among Aarhus’s many cultural institutions.
Brumadinho is home to the Xanadu of the art world, the Instituto Inhotim, a contemporary art museum and sculpture park in a 346-acre private botanical garden founded by mining magnate and art patron Bernardo de Mello Paz.
Rising from the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, with Table Mountain as a backdrop, is the world’s largest museum devoted to contemporary African art, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, commonly known as Zeitz MOCAA.
Legend has it that Henri Matisse said the quality of light is just different and magical in Collioure, a laidback and ancient fishing town on the French Mediterranean 15 miles from Spain.
Today Ein Hod, 12 miles south of Haifa, has about 650 residents—mostly painters, sculptors, jewelers, architects, and artisans—and the landscape is dotted with their handiwork: outdoor bronze sculptures, murals, studios, galleries, and workshops that offer classes for visitors.
Looking out from the Berriedale peninsula onto the River Derwent is the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), or as founder businessman, art collector, and high-stakes gambler David Walsh calls it: a subversive adult Disneyland.
Leading ceramics artists and students worldwide travel to Jingdezhen, China, the “Porcelain Capital of the World,” where the ruins of ancient kilns meet contemporary factories and galleries.