Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
Maurizio Seracini treats Palazzo Vecchio’s imposing Salone dei Cinquecento in Florence almost as if it were his living room.
The woman in the lab coat drove up to the ATM. Leaving the engine running, she jumped out of her car.
It features collectors, museum directors, artists, an Internet search engine and a French tycoon who made his billions in fashion retail and now spends them on Venetian palaces and pickled cattle.
The Indian-born novelist Kiran Desai triumphed by winning the $93,411 Man Booker prize with her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, a story rich with sadness about globalisation and with joy at the small surviving intimacies of Indian village life.
On October 21, Diwali — the festival of lights — will be celebrated by Hindus the world over.
