Leave space in your diary for visual culture consumption. Whatever city you’re visiting, there will be some extraordinary art galleries and museums with special exhibitions and permanent collections big enough to lose yourself in.
If so much candy pink sounds too much, switch it up and swing by the British Museum for a touch of Renaissance-style muscularity. Michelangelo: the Last Decades is on until July 28, and focuses on the great painter’s last 30 years of creating masterpieces under papal commission in Rome. Elsewhere in London, Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind is on at Tate Modern until September 1, while the Tate Britain offers Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920, until October 13.. An eye-catching exhibition due to open on November 8 at the spiral-shaped Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-1930.
Constantin Brâncuși’s The Sleeping Muse, a bronze sculpture created in 1910, is on show at the Centre Pompidou. Finally, visit Paris+ par Art Basel, a modern and contemporary art fair in the splendid Grand Palais from October 18-20.