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24.01.2022 Academy Travel invites you to join us at the Independent Theatre in North Sydney for an afternoon exploring Beethovens life and works during his 250th anniversary. Held on Saturday 21 March, 2020, from 2.00-5.00pm, the cost is $15 per ticket. Places are limited.

24.01.2022 The Thinking Traveller Podcast THE MAYFLOWER Mayflower, the ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in September 1620: more than 30 million Americans can now trace their ancestry to the 102 passengers on that ship. On the 400th anniversary of that iconic voyage, Dr Matthew Laing explores the story of the Pilgrims and explains why the Mayflower looms so large in the history of the United States.... Listen on your favourite player (Spotify, Apple, Google player, iHeart Radio or through our website)

24.01.2022 After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Budapest emerged from the communist era as the poor, shabbily dressed sister of cities like Vienna and Paris. But Hungarys 2004 entry into the European Union has helped transform its capital since, injecting it with foreign investment and new development.

23.01.2022 Beauty in the backyard #1 Wilpena Pound You don’t have to leave Australia to enjoy the best of art, music, landscape and history. Academy Travel has a range of short tours within Australia. The ancient sedimentary rock that makes up Wilpena Pound forms a natural amphitheatre known to the indigenous Adnyamathanha people as Ikara, meaning ‘meeting place’. It is one of the remarkable landscapes encountered on our Flinders Ranges tour, which follows the Heysen Trail (named after artist Hans Heysen) from Adelaide through the Barossa, to indigenous rock art at Arkaroola and the natural wonders of the Bararrana and Brachina Gorges.

23.01.2022 The Master of Light Joaquín Bastida I Sorolla In 2009 the El Prado museum in Madrid broke a 10-year record in attendance, surpassing blockbuster exhibitions on El Greco and Goya in previous years...

23.01.2022 Scotlands Orkney Islands: Of Storms and Stones, Of Trees and Treasure By Michael Turner In the winter of 1850, a great storm hit the west coast of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkneys. It exposed an extraordinary sight perched precariously at the edge of the dunes: the remains of an ancient village, ten circular stone houses, without their roofs, as well as others now tumbled into the sea. The washed away grassy mound under which the village had been preserved was known locally as Skerrabra, giving the site its modern name, the now world-famous Skara Brae. Read more...

23.01.2022 Beauty in the backyard #3 You dont have to leave Australia to enjoy the best of art, music, landscape and history. Academy Travel has a range of short tours within Australia. ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA... This ASO is considered one of Australias finest. Along with excellent galleries, fine restaurants and historic homes, it makes Adelaide a vibrant cultural centre. A concert by the ASO is included on our Adelaide & Surrounds tour, led by former director of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Christopher Menz. The tour also visits the Adelaide Hills to tour The Cedars, the home and studio of Hans Heysen, and the Barossa Valley, for a tour of Seppeltsfield winery.

21.01.2022 Take an online tour through the serene environment of The Frick Collection - a premier collection of Old Masters and European sculpture housed in the former residence of Pittsburgh industrialist Henry Clay Frick (18491919) on Fifth Avenue, New York. A regular feature of our tours to North East USA, this virtual visit is narrated by members of the Fricks senior staff and was produced and directed by the award-winning filmmaker Christopher Noey.

20.01.2022 Sometimes, when sleep eludes me in the dark hour before dawn, I make my way to the Pont de la Tournelle, the 400-foot bridge that links the le Saint-Louis to Pariss Left Bank. I plant myself at its midpoint, face west and wait. Before me is the skeletal back of Notre-Dame, shrouded in darkness. I watch as the sky moves from blue-black to deep blue velvet to soft gray, then light blue. The delicate architectural details of the cathedral gradually reveal themselves, until finally, the early morning sun bathes them in warm orange hues.

20.01.2022 It’s great to be touring again! Today we kicked off our four day Women in Art tour to Canberra and the Monaro with Dr Kathleen Olive.

19.01.2022 A potted history of the Rhine and its art Published by: Dr Nick Gordon The Rhine is home to an exceptional number of museums, castles, gardens and beautiful architecture, from Charlemagnes Aachen, through the cathedrals of Strasbourg and Cologne, to modern masterpieces, themselves often filled withwell more masterpieces.....

18.01.2022 The Master of Light Joaqun Bastida I Sorolla In 2009 the El Prado museum in Madrid broke a 10-year record in attendance, surpassing blockbuster exhibitions on El Greco and Goya in previous years...

18.01.2022 The Caucasus is an intoxicating mix of unique local cultures with the legacy of some of the worlds most powerful empires. Discover a kaleidoscope of colours, styles and traditions against a spectacular, everchanging backdrop of towering mountains and dusty plains, vineyards, forest and semidesert. Join tour leader, Dr Matthew Dal Santo, on our new 16-day tour, immersing you in the intriguing cultures of this region, its stunning landscapes and fabulous cuisines. Discover the story of survival at the junction of the Middle East, Black Sea and Eurasian steppe, where Persians, Romans, Arabs, Turks and Russians have all left their mark.

18.01.2022 This year is the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth in 1770. As the celebrations are put on hold, take a step-by-step guide through this extraordinary composer’s nine symphonies and really get the most out of these monumental works.

17.01.2022 Beauty in the backyard #4 You dont have to leave Australia to enjoy the best of art, music, landscape and history. Academy Travel has a range of short tours within Australia. Rock art at Mutawintji... Created around 8,000 years ago, the carving, painting and engraving at Mutawintji is just one of over 300 indigenous archaeological sites in the Mutawintji National Park. Together with Lake Mungo, it forms some of our most precious indigenous heritage and evidence of human occupation of Australia for 50,000 years. Our tour To the Edge of the Outback takes you from Mildura on the Murray River to Broken Hill, through iconic outback landscapes.

16.01.2022 Impressionism presented a radical change in what art could look like and people from around the globe flock to Paris to see masterpieces of the Impressionists. But they often thirst for more information to make sense of the complex changes that lie behind the art they see. This short course explores the art of the Impressionists in its context, from Claude Monet’s travels in search of inspiration to the impressionist vision of a Paris that had recently been redesigned by Hau...ssman. Each week takes you on an in depth voyage into a different aspect of this groundbreaking art movement and concludes with a closer look at the collections of the Musee d’Orsay, which continue to shape our idea of art in the 19th century. Lecturer: Dr Michael Adcock 4 Sessions x 90 mins Tuesdays @ 5.30pm AEDT November 24, December 1, 8, 15, 2020 Group Size 15 Book on our website academytravel.com.au

16.01.2022 Traditional rituals are still practised by Buryat shamans on Olkhon Island in Lake Baikal.

15.01.2022 Beauty in the backyard #3 You don’t have to leave Australia to enjoy the best of art, music, landscape and history. Academy Travel has a range of short tours within Australia. ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA... This ASO is considered one of Australia’s finest. Along with excellent galleries, fine restaurants and historic homes, it makes Adelaide a vibrant cultural centre. A concert by the ASO is included on our Adelaide & Surrounds tour, led by former director of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Christopher Menz. The tour also visits the Adelaide Hills to tour The Cedars, the home and studio of Hans Heysen, and the Barossa Valley, for a tour of Seppeltsfield winery.

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15.01.2022 Join us next Wednesday November 25 as Robert Veel, Elisabetta Amadi and Nick Gordon explore the city’s waterways by boat, from the delicate tracery of Gothic palaces to Peggy Guggenheim’s canal-side collection of modern masters. Discover Venice’s astronomical growth as a medieval trading empire, admire the jaw-dropping civic buildings and private palaces created by its wealth, and trace the city’s emergence as the destination par excellence for Grand Tourers from the 18th cen...tury to today. Lecturer: Dr Nick Gordon Local Guide: Robert Veel & Elisabetta Amadi Date: Wednesday 25 November, 2020 Duration: 90mins Start Time: 8pm AEDT | 7pm QLD 10pm NZST | 5pm WA Bookings available via our website academytravel.com.au under the LIVE ON SITE section

14.01.2022 This year is the 250th anniversary of Beethovens birth in 1770. As the celebrations are put on hold, take a step-by-step guide through this extraordinary composers nine symphonies and really get the most out of these monumental works.

14.01.2022 The Dutch Golden Age Reality & Illusion. The art of painting flourished in the Netherlands in the 17th century, and masterpieces by the likes of Rembrandt, Vermeer or Hals continue to fascinate us. The people look so real and as we peer into their houses, look out across their streets and landscapes, we feel like we could step inside the painting and walk around this world. But on what is this sense of realism based? In this article, Dr Sophie Oosterwijk, Dutch native and art historian who leads our High Art in the Low Countries tour, takes you behind the surface of reality and illusion in the Golden Age.

14.01.2022 Beauty in the backyard #2 You don’t have to leave Australia to enjoy the best of art, music, landscape and history. Academy Travel has a range of short tours within Australia. TarraWarra Museum of Art... Beautifully situated in the Yarra Valley, this private museum was founded by philanthropists and art collectors Eva and Marc Besen, and is known for the TarraWarra Biennial of contemporary art. It is one of several public and private galleries we visit on our Yarra Valley to Bendigo tour, designed to explore the remarkable collections of Victoria’s regional centres, from the Goldfields to the elegant Mornington Peninsula.

12.01.2022 A love letter to Italy Tour leader Dr Kathleen Olive penned this letter on behalf of the team at Academy Travel... As many of you would know, Italy has held a special place in Academy Travels heart, since the companys inception in 2004. We began with a focus on small group cultural tours to Italy, and these remain a cornerstone of our business. We maintain an office in Rome, Academy Europe, which has oversight of our tours to Italy as well as other regions in Europe....Continue reading

11.01.2022 THE THINKING TRAVELLER Our new podcast series, The Thinking Traveller, draws on the passions, expertise and interests of our academic tour leaders, to bring a wealth of additional knowledge to your travels, one topic at a time. Hosted by Jo Litson, our tour leaders talk on a range of topics and interests related to travel, covering history, culture, archaeology, architecture, the visual arts and the performing arts.... Listening to The Thinking Traveller is easy and free. You can listen via our website or you can subscribe in your favourite podcast app, details in the link below. EPISODES Ep.1, Venice how to avoid the crowds, Robert Veel Ep.2, American Vogue history of a fashion bible, Dr Anna Lebovic Ep.3, Beethoven 250 years of Ludwig van Beethoven, Dr Tom Ford Ep.4, Siberia & The Russian Far East the worlds last travel frontier, Dr Matthew Dal Santo Ep.5, The life of Caravaggio as provocative as his paintings?, Dr Kathleen Olive

11.01.2022 The American Presidential Nomination how complicated could it be? America is currently in the quadrennial grip of election fever while the Democratic Party conducts its search for its nominee to run against President Donald Trump this November. These presidential primaries (as they are more commonly known) are a complex patchwork of mini-elections steeped in idiosyncratic tradition and practice that offer many surprises even for long-suffering scholars of American politic...Continue reading

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10.01.2022 On the art of stealing art - unfortunately art theft has long been with us, from the wholesale ripping-off of cultural treasures during various wars to nimble five-finger discounting of jewellery and other decorative arts. But sometimes, the theft itself is artful. In this article, Dr Nick Gordon discusses some of the great art heists of the recent past.

10.01.2022 THE FLINDERS RANGES ANCIENT LAND TO THE HEYSEN TRAIL The undeniable rugged beauty of the Flinders Ranges attracts visitors for a myriad of reasons. In this article, Dr Chris Carter explores the marvels of the Flinders, from its unique geology and evidence of the earliest life on earth, to 49,000 years of indigenous settlement, and the difficulties this arid land posed for early European settlers.

10.01.2022 Visit your favourite museum without leaving your home. Google Arts & Culture’s collection includes the British Museum in London, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Guggenheim in New York City, and literally hundreds of more places where you can gain knowledge about art, history, and science.

10.01.2022 Beauty in the backyard #1 Wilpena Pound You dont have to leave Australia to enjoy the best of art, music, landscape and history. Academy Travel has a range of short tours within Australia. The ancient sedimentary rock that makes up Wilpena Pound forms a natural amphitheatre known to the indigenous Adnyamathanha people as Ikara, meaning meeting place. It is one of the remarkable landscapes encountered on our Flinders Ranges tour, which follows the Heysen Trail (named after artist Hans Heysen) from Adelaide through the Barossa, to indigenous rock art at Arkaroola and the natural wonders of the Bararrana and Brachina Gorges.

09.01.2022 The Noble Art of Alchemy How did alchemists innovate decorative arts?

08.01.2022 Beauty in the backyard #2 You dont have to leave Australia to enjoy the best of art, music, landscape and history. Academy Travel has a range of short tours within Australia. TarraWarra Museum of Art... Beautifully situated in the Yarra Valley, this private museum was founded by philanthropists and art collectors Eva and Marc Besen, and is known for the TarraWarra Biennial of contemporary art. It is one of several public and private galleries we visit on our Yarra Valley to Bendigo tour, designed to explore the remarkable collections of Victorias regional centres, from the Goldfields to the elegant Mornington Peninsula.

08.01.2022 I do not know a district more clearly blessed by heaven. In the midst of this friendly nature, man can breathe freely, the harmony of his relations is not disturbed by gigantic proportions, and he can love and enjoy because he does not seem to do anything but take his own share of universal happiness. Franz Liszt, describing Lake Como.

08.01.2022 Moscow of the 1990s a personal account. By Geoff Winestock A visit to Moscow, like many great cities, offers a chance to immerse yourself in its fascinating, tumultuous history.... Moscow is unusual however because you can get a feel not just for the distant past, the medieval world of Ivan the Terrible or Napoleons campaign of 1812, but also for the dramatic events that happened there in our lifetimes. The city was the setting for many of the crucial moments that ended the Cold War. I was lucky enough to witness some of them personally when I moved to the city in 1992 to work as a newspaper journalist.

07.01.2022 THE EMOTION & ENIGMA OF EASTERN SIBERIA In this article, writer and historian Dr Matthew Dal Santo reveals the cultural and geographical wonders that await the Australian traveller in Eastern Siberia, from the sounds of Russian Buddhism at Ulan Udes resurgent datsans to the invigorating environment of Lake Baikal, the worlds largest and deepest lake. The stories of the persecuted Old Believers and the tales of the exiled Decembrists add to the pathos and colour of this last travel frontier

06.01.2022 Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) was still a young artist when he completed The Gross Clinic in Philadelphia, an in-action, up-to-the-minute depiction of the vanguard of American medicine that feels particularly relevant right now. Explore this great featurette from the NY Times this week, entitled Taking Lessons From a Bloody Masterpiece. Writer Jason Farago has become obsessed with this classic of American art, and he shows you why

06.01.2022 For more than a thousand years, Japans cherry blossom season has been a source of fascination and wonderment. How did such an infatuation begin?

06.01.2022 From their house to your house The Royal Opera House is offering a programme of free online broadcasts via Facebook and YouTube that you can access anywhere, anytime across the globe, including: Peter and the Wolf... Acis and Galatea Cos fan tutte The Metamorphosis Close the curtains, pour yourself a glass of wine and turn up the volume. https://www.roh.org.uk//the-royal-opera-house-launches-a-p

05.01.2022 Art by African Americans has received far more public attention in the past few years than it ever has, and yet it constitutes an abysmal 1.2% of the USA's major art collections. In this article, Dr Nick Gordon takes a closer look at what lies behind this institutional problem.

05.01.2022 A highlight of any trip to Morocco is its rich and diverse heritage, underpinned by vibrant cultural traditions, a fascinating religious history, and unique gastronomy. In this article, archaeologist and historian Sue Rollin explores three aspects of Moroccos arts and crafts, from ancient bronze sculptures, to colourful zillij mosaic tiles...

05.01.2022 THE MAKING OF VICTORIA FROM SULLIVAN BAY TO THE GOLD BOOM The discovery of gold in Victoria in the 1850s brought people from across the world, pushing the newly formed colony to develop rapidly, throwing some curious characters into the spot light, and ultimately shaping Victoria to this day. In this article, Dr Nick Gordon looks at the history of Victoria, from its early colonies to its sudden explosion during the Gold Rush.

05.01.2022 Siberia has the virtue of not startling or astonishing you right away but of pulling you in slowly and reluctantly, as it were, with measured carefulness, and then binding you tightly once you are in, wrote the Siberian nature writer, Valentin Rasputin, in 1991. Dr Matthew Dal Santo led our inaugural Academy tour to Siberia and the Russian Far East in 2019 and will be returning in July 2020. Embark on a journey of a lifetime to one of the worlds hottest new destinations an...d one its last travel frontiers. This 17-day tour reveals the cultural and geographic wonders of Siberia and the Russian Far East. HIGHLIGHTS Irkutsk, a Cossack town where the exiled Decembrists sought to recreate the cultural life of St Petersburg The immensity and tranquillity of Siberias Lake Baikal, with its stunning vistas of pine-studded islands A journey on the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway around the shores of Lake Baikal The heart of Russian Buddhism at Ulan Udes resurgent datsans and monasteries Private helicopter tour through Kamchatkas surreal, volcano-studded landscape to Kuril Lake in the UNESCO-listed Southern Kamchatka Wildlife Reserve, to view powerful brown bears feast on the thousands of salmon that return to the lake every summer to spawn Explore Kamchatkas active Ksudach Volcano and the natural Khodutka Hot Springs, and meet Kamchatkas indigenous people, the husky-raising Koryak Taste the outstanding local seafood in the bustling Pacific port of Vladivostok

05.01.2022 Visit your favourite museum without leaving your home. Google Arts & Cultures collection includes the British Museum in London, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Guggenheim in New York City, and literally hundreds of more places where you can gain knowledge about art, history, and science.

04.01.2022 Beauty in the backyard #4 You don’t have to leave Australia to enjoy the best of art, music, landscape and history. Academy Travel has a range of short tours within Australia. Rock art at Mutawintji... Created around 8,000 years ago, the carving, painting and engraving at Mutawintji is just one of over 300 indigenous archaeological sites in the Mutawintji National Park. Together with Lake Mungo, it forms some of our most precious indigenous heritage and evidence of human occupation of Australia for 50,000 years. Our tour To the Edge of the Outback takes you from Mildura on the Murray River to Broken Hill, through iconic outback landscapes.

03.01.2022 THE GRAND TOUR A novelty 300 years ago, but still grand today? A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. Samuel Johnson, quoted in Boswells biography, 1791....Continue reading

03.01.2022 Passionate, prepared and professional, our tour leaders bring a world of experience and a wealth of knowledge to your travels. They have solid postgraduate qualifications, university level teaching and research experience, and a thorough knowledge of destinations. With genuine academic expertise and enthusiasm, they have the ability to share their knowledge with interested travellers. Meet Dr Kathleen Olive...