Read before you book
What we learned
standing in the queue.
A good evening starts weeks before the curtain. We write down what we learned in the queue so yours goes better.
Photo: Courtesy of Art BaselArt Basel
Art Basel brings GOD HATES SPACE to the Grand Palais
For the first time Art Basel Paris opens the Rotonde d'Antin: Surkin and Romain Gavras fill it with a twelve-metre double-sided screen. Free entry, four days only.
Photo: Salzburger Festspiele / Monika RittershausSalzburger Festspiele
Salzburger Festspiele 2026: the summer in numbers
Three new opera productions, two world premieres by Handke and Jelinek and an extra Faust: the closing report of the 106th summer reads like a list of records.
Photo: Montreux Jazz Festival / Emilien ItimMontreux Jazz Festival
Montreux Jazz Festival: the 60th edition in review
RAYE with Alicia Keys and Mark Ronson, Charles Lloyd sixty years after the first edition and a reopened Stravinski Auditorium: what the anniversary left behind.
Ticket mechanics
How to get into a show that is sold out
How to look
Museum fatigue and the ninety-minute rule
What to wear
The dress code myth
Value
Standing room is the best deal in culture
Contemporary art
How to walk into a gallery without feeling stupid
Big exhibitions
How to do a biennale without losing your mind
Money
What a night out costs in sixteen cities
Value
The free museum map
First time
Opera for people who are fairly sure they do not like opera
Money
How festivals actually price themselves
Live music
The art of the late set
Contemporary art
Why Thursday is gallery night in every city
Planning
The booking calendar: when tickets actually drop
Planning
Flying somewhere for one exhibition
Format
The immersive show: spectacle, art, or both
Access
Step-free, relaxed and captioned: what venues actually offer
Service
A rainy afternoon in each of the sixteen cities
Family
Culture with children who did not ask to come
Nightlife