For creative centers in the world, Dubai has really carved out an identity for itself, and it’s one that’s constantly shifting.  The gallery culture here is thriving, and it’s just one of the many reasons for visiting here.  There are, of course, absolutely gorgeous beaches to contrast with the mysterious desert landscapes, and there are fantastic shopping malls with amazing entertainments that visitors of all ages will enjoy.  It’s a place that’s made its name for hospitality, and when it comes to four star hotels, Dubai has some splendid choices for the discerning traveler.  Our hotels are carefully selected to please all tastes, and offer you a magnificent place to call home while you are here.

Design and decor are at a premium here, in a city that prides itself on its ability to appeal to the visual senses.  You’ll enjoy many splendid rests, and a host of other amenities, all yours to enjoy while you are also checking out the fabulous offerings of Dubai.  It attracts visitors from all over the world, and the burgeoning art scene is becoming a magnet for international artists, coming to see what all the excitement is about.  Interestingly, as it often happens in the art world, the excitement is usually the artists themselves.  In 2008, an artist’s collective named Albus Cavus came here to do a project for urban revitalization.

Their plan here was to work with public space, and help to engage the local community to become active in transforming it to something that would have more aesthetic appeal.  Their methods are very interesting, and speak to a number of contemporary trends in the art world that involve working with public space to make it accessible again to the citizens.  Workshops, public events, and interactive mural painting were just part of the project, designed to bring out the creativity in the local residents.  Albus Novus translates to white cave from the Latin, and refers to the basement in New Jersey where the collective had its beginnings.

Albus Cavus in Dubai is a post from: DJ Trava

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I’m not a New Yorker by choice, but I really have a difficult time imagining a life without Central Park. It’s my only green sanctuary, a respite in what seems to be an infinite sprawl of steel, concrete and glass. Central Park is the only place where I can collect my thoughts, get grounded, relax and just breath. I consider Central Park the lungs of New York, supplying the much needed oxygen for a busy and bustling crowd constantly on the go. I even recommend all my visiting friends to book a room a one of the Four Star New York Hotels that over look Central Park, I’ll even go so far has to pay for the room if necessary.

I actually have a friend coming to visit this weekend because there’s is a celebration of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, the founder of American landscape architecture. A true parkmaker. Olmsted, after leaving a career as a journalist partnered with an English-born gentleman named Calvert Vaux. The two of them won the Central Park design contest in 1858. After that they went to Brooklyn and created Prospect Park. Even though they were partners, it was Olmsteads voracious personality and social standing the outshone Vaux.

My visiting friend and I both have an extreme appreciation for the contributions Olmsted made to American parks in general. His fundamental design principles came from his understanding of social class structure around the world and he detested slavery and made sure that all the parks he created were accessible to all people no matter their social standings, race or religion. Truly a revolutionary in his concepts of the time. He planted his reputation, one park at a time, as America’s preeminent landscape architect. One I and my visiting friend will appreciate this weekends celebration at Central Park.

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