If you have but to finalise your end-of-year journey plans, listed below are some upcoming events which will encourage you – from a festive pop-up within the UK capital to F1 enjoyable in Abu Dhabi and a landmark anniversary in Vienna.
Grand plans on the pyramids
Cairo’s annual artwork exhibition, Art d’Egypte: Forever is Now, units large-scale installations by artists from around the globe in opposition to Giza’s historical pyramids, framing a inventive dialogue between previous and current. This 12 months’s present contains contrasting works by 10 artists, together with Michelangelo Pistoletto and Mert Ege Köse, and is timed to coincide with the official, long-awaited opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in November.
Art d’Egypte: Forever Is Now takes place from 11 November to 7 December
Waltzing by Vienna
This 12 months marks the bicentenary of Johann Strauss’s beginning, and the Austrian capital – which lent its title to the composer’s most well-known dance – has hosted a year-long programme to swimsuit each Strauss purists and modernists. One standout live performance shall be Waltz Symphony, a double world premiere on 27 November, which sees younger composers collaborate with an AI-based composition programme. Afterwards, cease for a warming scorching chocolate on the new Mandarin Oriental, Vienna, now open in a superbly refurbished art-nouveau constructing on the central Riemergasse, only a few minutes’ stroll from the gilded monument to Strauss in Stadtpark.
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