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Indian Express
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Top 10 most visited museums in the world
Written By Prachi Mishra The world-renowned Louvre Museum in Paris made headlines a few days back not for a new exhibit, but for an unexpected temporary shutdown. And, the reason being, overcrowding. With daily visitor numbers swelling beyond manageable limits, the museum staff raised concerns about safety and work environment. The staff from various departments including gallery attendants, ticket agents and security personnel joined forces to go on strike against the mentally and physically draining working conditions. This incident highlighted the global trend, especially after the pandemic, where people in mass numbers have been attracted by museums despite lack of infrastructure and staff. Amidst this surge in cultural tourism, let's take a look at the other top 10 most frequently visited museums around the world. The museum registered a footfall of more than 6.8 million in 2024. The Vatican museum is organized in a manner that the visitors can enroute different paths to explore it. The key attention of the museum is the Sistine Chapel which is famous for Michelangelo's frescoes on the ceiling and altar wall. Other attractions include papal carriages, historical documents, vestments, and religious relics. The museum spans over 70,000 square meters with a construction area of nearly 200,000 square meters and 48 exhibition halls making it one of the largest museums in the world. Annually, 6.7 million visitors come to explore the museum. This museum showcases China's rich history and artistic heritage. The highlights of the museum include the 'Simuwu Ding' (the world's heaviest ancient bronze vessel) and the 'Gold Thread and Jade Garment' (a Han Dynasty burial suit). Founded in 1753, the museum holds the record of the first national museum that became open to the public. Drawing over 6.4 million visitors in the year 2024, the museum showcases items from all over the world. The museum's premise has been used as film sets on numerous occasions and the film-series, 'Night at the Museum' was also filmed here. Famous artifacts that are on display include Rosetta Stone, Sophilos Vase, The Parthenon Sculptures among many others. In 2024, the museum welcomed a record-breaking 6.3 million visitors, making it the second most visited UK attraction that year. The museum offers free entry to its permanent exhibitions, which adds to the visitors tally. The museum's dinosaur gallery, including the famous 'Dippy' (Diplodocus cast), and the 'Our Broken Planet' exhibition, are consistently popular with visitors. Popularly known as The Met, the museum houses over two million works of art, encompassing a wide range of cultures and time periods. With the footfall record of 5.36 million visitors in 2023, the museum features the largest collection of American Art in the world. The Met is renowned for its collections of classical antiquity, ancient Egyptian art, European paintings, American and modern art, medieval art at The Cloisters, and its Costume Institute. Founded in 1869, the museum complex comprises of 21 interconnected buildings. With around 5 million annual visitors, the museum is famous for its fossil dinosaur and mammal halls, as well as its lifelike dioramas. The Rose Center for Earth and Space, featuring the Hayden Planetarium, is also a major attraction. The museum also boasts of over 30 million research specimens, including one of the world's largest collections of fossils and insects. Tate Modern houses a vast collection of modern and contemporary art, including international and British works from 1900 to the present day. In 2023, it recorded 4.74 million attendees. It is housed in a former power station on the south bank of the River Thames, a site that has been transformed by architects Herzog & de Meuron. The major attraction is the museum's Turbine Hall, renowned for its large-scale, often spectacular, art installations. The museum size is comparable to 18 football fields. The museum boasts over 146 million specimens and artifacts, making it the world's largest natural history collection. This includes plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, and human cultural artifacts. In 2023, arond 4.4 million people visited the museum. Also, the museum does not charge any entry fees, making it more widely accessible. Other notable exhibits include African elephants, paleobiology (dinosaurs), and gemstones. The museum boasts a vast collection of over 166,000 items, including ceramics, wood carvings, calligraphy, paintings, and gemstones. The museum with approximately 4 million visitors in the year 2023, is a key institution for understanding the unique culture of the Lingnan region, which encompasses Guangdong, Guangxi, and parts of Hunan and Jiangxi provinces. Notable exhibits include a dinosaur hall with fossils and information about the region's prehistoric life, and a calligraphy and painting hall showcasing traditional Chinese art. The museum is situated on a golf-course, which was earlier part of the Yongsan Garrison. The museum's famous collection includes Gold Crown, Pensive Bodhisattva, Ten-Story Pagoda among others. Moreover, the museum's six permanent galleries showcase a comprehensive collection of Korean artifacts and art, covering prehistoric times through the Joseon Dynasty is the reason for its footfall of 3.5 million visitors. (The author is an intern with The Indian Express)
Boston Globe
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
When a democratic medium documented a democratic nation
Nearly two centuries later, it's impossible to imagine the transformative effect the invention of photography had. As the medium grew and developed, it allowed for an unprecedented, and unprecedentedly varied, documentation of the growth and development of the nation that sustained it. 'The New Art' is drawn from a promised gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the William L. Schaeffer Collection. The show runs at the Met through July 20. Advertisement Anonymous, "Roller Skate and Boot," 1860s. Metropolitan Museum of Art It's abundant and abundantly miscellaneous, though portraits very much predominate. What people most wanted to see was themselves and other people. If anything, that was even truer then than now, since accessible (and affordable) portraiture was a phenomenal novelty. In no other genre did this democratic medium democratize more. As Douglass also said in that speech, 'The farmer boy gets an iron shoe for his horse, and metallic picture for himself at the same time, and at the same price.' Advertisement Installation view of "The New Art: American Photography, 1839–1910." Photo by Eugenia Tinsley, Courtesy of The Met But among the 275 photographs on display there are also still lifes, landscapes, nature studies, charming bits of bizarrerie. The hats on a quartet of sorority sisters from around 1870 are millinery a la Hogwarts. The aplomb of a young man posing with a rooster is positively monarchical. Pet squirrels appear not once but twice. In one of the images, the animal's tail is blurred, thanks to the long exposure times required by the daguerreotype process. Anonymous, "Studio Photographer at Work," c. 1855. Metropolitan Museum of Art Of special interest are multiple examples of the medium taking itself for its subject. There are images of photographic studios, of photographers at work, of people holding photographs. Are they more documentation or celebration? Clearly, it didn't take long for photography to enter the realm of meta and reflexivity. That, too, was part of the medium's newness, extending to how, in its self-awareness and capacity for fantastical juxtaposition, photography foreshadowed Surrealism. Along with photographs, 'The New Art' includes three vintage cameras and three stereopticons. Greeting visitors at the entrance to the show is a studio camera from the 1870s. A handsome object of wood, brass, and glass, it's bigger than two breadboxes. In the last gallery, there's a stereoscopic camera from the 1880s. With its pair of small protruding lenses, it could be the stationary great-great-great-grandfather of the title character in Pixar's Installation view of "The New Art: American Photography, 1839–1910." Photo by Eugenia Tinsley, Courtesy of The Met The cameras are a reminder that the title of the exhibition could just as well be 'The New Technology.' A camera, after all, is a machine as a paintbrush, say, or pencil is not. It was this piece of machinery that enabled the newness of this new art. Advertisement The show's abundance makes it all the more important that it be mounted with skill and imagination, which it is. The exhibition is organized by photographic format, which effectively means it's organized chronologically, as a succession of new formats advanced the medium. They included daguerreotypes, tintypes (made of iron, not tin), ambrotypes, cyanotypes, salted paper prints, albumen prints, platinum prints, and gelatin silver prints, which would dominate 20th-century photography. Anonymous, "748. Schoolmaster Hill Tobogganing, Franklin Park, Roxbury, Massachusetts," 1905. Metropolitan Museum of Art One of the fascinations of 'The New Art' is the interplay of format and subject. Published by E. & H. T. Anthony, "Specimens of New York Bill Posting, No. 897," from the series "Anthony's Stereoscopic Views," 1863. Metropolitan Museum of Art Religiosity does come through in several portraits of dead infants and children. In an era when the depredations of infectious disease were a given, such images weren't seen as morbid. That absence of morbidity underscores how different then was from now. Much more frequent are photographs that look ahead (more newness): a roller skate strapped to a boot, a wall of ads (both from the 1860s), locomotives; a Ferris wheel. Or there's the way four views of Niagara Falls, one of them showing a tightrope walker crossing above, contrast with an 1897 platinum print of a high-power line being raised there. Famous events are recorded — the California Gold Rush, the Civil War — but daily life and everyday people are much more prominent here. A few celebrated photographic names appear: Advertisement Carleton E. Watkins, "View on the Columbia River, from the O.R.R., Cascades, No. 1286," from the series 'Pacific Coast,' 1867. Metropolitan Museum of Art Yet the vast majority of photographers are either little remembered or simply unknown. Anonymity, in a way, is fitting. Again and again, what we see here — not that this was the photographers' intent — is the rendering of what was common then becoming uncommon in the eyes of posterity. Posterity is, of course, just a fancy way of saying 'us,' 'now,' and, yes, 'new.' THE NEW ART: American Photography, 1839-1910 At Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, through July 20. 212-535-7710, Mark Feeney can be reached at
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Brazil's JHSF Diversifies Its Luxury ‘Ecosystem'
For JHSF, a mall isn't just a mall, a restaurant isn't just a restaurant. They're part of a holistic approach to luxury that the São Paolo-based conglomerate uses to cater to the affluent lifestyle. More from WWD The Met and Vacheron Constantin Reveal Winners of Artisan Residency Program Zadig & Voltaire Founders Acquire Maison Poiray and Aurélie Bidermann Jewelry Brands Hudson's Bay Signs Lease Deal With Chinese Billionaire Shopping centers, hotels and restaurants, upscale condos and houses, office towers, surf clubs, an asset management firm — even an exclusive executive airport for private jets — they all sit in the JHSF portfolio. And the company operates dozens of designer stores in Brazil for luxury brands such as Celine, Chloé, Isabel Marant, Balmain and Emilio Pucci while also leasing space to many other high-end names in its centers. 'You have important groups that have malls, but they are just mall operators. You have important groups that operate hotels, but they just manage hotels. And there are groups that operate just restaurants. But there isn't a group that connects to this luxury lifestyle like we do,' said Augusto Martins, the chief executive officer of JHSF. JHSF is a complex corporation with seven business units that for outsiders isn't easy to get a handle on at first. It's sometimes labeled too narrowly as a builder, though that's how the company began in 1972. The business was founded by brothers Fábio and José Roberto Auriemo and two other partners. The Auriemo family currently holds 55.2 percent of the total capital of the company, which gets its name from the first-name initials of the founders. For any highly diversified company, there are challenges and opportunities. Expertise across industries, attracting a wider range of talent, and the creating synergies are required. But being diversified, according to Martins, helps buttress the company against macro headwinds, and the various business units of JHSF share many of the same customers. 'All of our businesses are very connected to the high end sector,' Martins said. 'Our customers get off at the airport, take the helicopter, go shopping at our Cidade Jardim shopping center, and dine at a Fasano restaurant. It's a complete experience.' Or they live in JHSF's mammoth Boa Vista Village, a gated community in Porto Feliz located an hour from São Paulo. In an area roughly the size of Manhattan, Boa Vista Village contains hundreds of large homes and apartments, acres and acres of lush landscaping, golf courses, an equestrian center, a triathlon training center, two polo fields, a spa and a wave pool for surfing, among other amenities. The Shopping Cidade Jardim mall, located in the Morumbi district of São Paulo, continues to attract top European brands. Van Cleef & Arpels, Brunello Cucinelli and the L'Avenue restaurant from Paris recently opened in the center. Three more luxury brand flagships will soon open, furthering the upscale, international appeal. The shopping center is part of a complex consisting of nine residential towers that are part of the high-end condominium Parque Cidade Jardim, and three commercial towers that make up the Cidade Jardim Corporate Center. During an interview at the JHSF's Fasano Hotel situated on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue between 62rd and 63rd Streets — where suites start at $970 a night and run as high as $8,000 for a duplex — Martins outlined what can only be described as a full plate of JHSF expansion projects in the works in Brazil and other countries. Over the next five years, the company predicts it will expand its gross leasable area from 58,000 square meters to 99,000 square meters. Here's what he said is happening: In September or October this year, Boa Vista Village will open its 'Town Center,' an open-air destination with 15,000 square meters of gross leasable area for approximately 100 designer shops including Gucci and Chloé, as well as restaurants, galleries, entertainment features and a church. It's a setting that Martins said is inspired by the villages of the Hamptons on Long Island's East End. Shops Faria Lima, a 10,000-square-meter shopping center with stores, restaurants, a cinema and a gym in the heart of São Paulo's technological and financial center, is expected to be complete in 2027. It's being designed by famed architects Sig Bergamin and Murilo Lomas, with famed landscaper Maria João D'Orey. Usina São Paulo, a hub for corporate offices, media firms, entertainment and culture situated by the Pinheiros River, will house JHSF's new headquarters as it nears completion on a third phase of development. JHSF's São Paulo Catarina International Airport is being expanded from 12 hangers to 16 hangers for dozens of additional private jets. There's a waiting list of more than 100. The airport is often compared to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. The São Paulo Surf Club, with a wave pool for surfing, will open next to the Shopping Cicade Jardim mall. (JHSF's Boa Vista Village Surf Club also has a pool with technology that generates waves for up to 22 seconds each, and which reportedly cost $320 million.) A fourth expansion of Catarina Fashion Outlet, located in São Roque, 45 minutes from São Paulo. It has more than 51,000 gross square meters leasable area and 300 brands including Coach, Burberry, Aeropostale, Calvin Klein, Ferragamo, Michael Kors and Under Armour. On the international front, JHSF is rolling out four Fasano Hotels, starting with South Beach, Miami, on Collins Avenue next year. Through 2027, three more hotels will open, in the Mayfair section of London; in Sardinia, Italy, opposite the island of Tavolara, and in Cascais, Portugal, in Quinta da Marinha. JHSF bought the Fasano hotel chain 14 years ago, and opened the Fasano Fifth Avenue hotel and restaurant four years ago. About three years ago, the company opened the Fasano restaurant on Park and 49th Street, the site of the former Four Seasons restaurant, in New York. Considering its proximity to several major financial institutions, the restaurant quickly became a busy power lunch destination. The four-and-a-half-year-old JHSF Capital has roughly $450 million U.S. in assets under management and the team was recently in Dubai and Abu Dhabi meeting with sovereign funds and family offices to raise money for the company's internationalization efforts. With its unique platform, the family-run, publicly held JHSF is the largest luxury player in Latin America. The company continues to show sales and profit gains despite the luxury sector's global softness. For the first quarter of 2025, JHSF's gross revenue rose 37 percent to 439.5 million reais, or about $80 million. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization rose 61 percent to 197.8 million reais, or about $35 million U.S. Recurring revenues alone rose 36 percent to 332.8 million reais, or about $60 million, with adjusted EBITDA based on recurring figures up 52 percent to 147.4 million reais, or $27 million. JHSF has begun concentrating more on recurring revenues which include rents from residences, airport hanger space, and retailers in the malls; club memberships; Fasino hotel fees charged to landlords, and JHSF Capital, and do not include real estate changes. These recurring revenues are steady, received regularly, and can be considered a better barometer of a company's financial performance, and a better basis for planning and forecasting. For all of 2024, recurring revenues rose 21 percent to 1.1 billion reais, or about $200 million, representing 64 percent of the company's total revenue. Adjusted EBITDA rose 42 percent to 495 million reais, or approximately $90 million. The luxury sector globally has been slowing, but according to Martins, 'In Brazil, there is probably a different scenario from what you find around the world.' The Cidade Jardim shopping center saw sales growth of 25 percent last quarter, and currently is 100 percent occupied. 'This platform, this ecosystem we created, is making a difference,' Martins said. He also credited JHSF's curation of luxury brand fashion houses and restaurants, citing such recent additions as Celine and Dior, and the Makoto and L'Avenue restaurants. 'We create a mix and an exclusive project that is giving us this power.' Martins said JHSF further benefits by being less dependent on international tourism, which is drying up around the world amid trade wars and cross-border conflicts. 'Consumer demand is holding up in Brazil,' Martins said. 'Yes, there's a lot of inflation now. We now operate with around 5 percent of inflation in Brazil, but this is in our culture. Unfortunately, inflation is not a new issue. It's an issue that has become natural for us, and this 5 percent rate is historically low. We used to have 30 percent.' The Brazilian luxury market has been valued at $17.1 billion, according to Bain & Company. The sector in Brazil is projected to experience an annual growth rate of 6 percent to 8 percent until 2030, driven by a growing base of high-net-worth individuals. Even though luxury consumers account for less than 1 percent of Brazil's population, their combined wealth exceeds 3.5 trillion reais ($613 billion), making the demographic a significant economic force. Brazil is home to approximately 380,000 individuals with at least $100 million in assets, highlighting the country's concentration of ultra-wealthy residents. The collective wealth of these individuals represents nearly 31 percent of Brazil's 2023 GDP, which stood at 11.3 trillion reais, or $1.98 trillion. JHSF has been doubling down on luxury. 'We had two very nice shopping malls in northern Brazil but they are not focused on the high end sector,' Martins said. 'So last year, though JHSF Capital, these two malls were sold. They were not connected to our strategy.' Martins said JHSF is on a trajectory of good growth. 'We have been investing in these different business units a lot in the past years to diversify our risk, to diversify our structure,' Martins said. 'We are not only in real estate development. It's about connecting with customers in different ways, in different moments of their lives. So we invested a lot to create clubs, to create new hotels, to expand the malls.' Asked if there is any desire to further diversify the company to businesses or sectors the company is not involved in Martins said: 'We think that now we have a very nice combination of businesses. They are very complementary. So when we [embark] on a new project, we try to have almost all the business units that we operate included. It's about maintaining total attention to our customer. How do they live? Where to they go? What products do they want? We will continue with this attention to their lives.' Last December, Martins hosted a holiday party for vendors at the Fasano on Fifth Avenue, as a way to say thank-you for their support. Many luxury and designer brands sent representatives. 'Not only have we been working with them at our malls Shopping Cidade Jardim and Shops Jardins, but we have also been connecting them with our high-end customers in our luxury residences, Fasano hotels and restaurants, private clubs, as well as in São Paulo Catarina Executive Airport, the only international private airport in Brazil.' For Martins and JSHF, it's all about connectivity and making it happen in the lap of luxury. Best of WWD In Commercial Real Estate, Experience Matters Striving for Retail of a Different Ilk in Boston's Seaport Box Equities Forms Joint Venture With Artemis
CNN
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
The Met's Rockefeller Wing reopens after $70M revamp
Once labeled 'primitive," the Met's collection of art from Africa, Oceania and the Americas now has pride of place in the museum's newly renovated Rockefeller Wing.
Daily Maverick
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Maverick
Vienna's Golden Hall: A journey of musical triumph and humbling embarrassment unfolds
An unforgettable experience has its embarrassing moment, though it won't detract from the wonder of it all. Two profoundly memorable things happened to me, at the same time, while on holiday this month. One fulfilled a lifelong dream and left me jubilant and wondrously awed. The other will be recorded as one of the more embarrassing moments of my long and mostly uneventful life. Both happened in Vienna, famously known as the City of Music because of its rich history as the classical world's cultural centre and home to those composing icons Mozart, Beethoven and Strauss. As an aside, it is also known as the City of Dreams, home to the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, who believed dreams helped to access the unconscious mind and who, in 1938, fled Austria before Nazi Germany annexed it and began persecuting Jews. Another aside: Vienna is also known as the Capital of Europe's Spies, situated so closely as it is to the Iron Curtain of old. A surprising number of spy thrillers of the 20th century take place here, my favourite being John le Carré's A Perfect Spy, in which he used Vienna as a backdrop for his Cold War spy story. But I want to concentrate on cultural Vienna, a city with fewer people than Soweto, the locus of my amazement and humiliation. My love of classical music and opera has taken me to many magnificent venues – The Met in New York, the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy, among them, each with its own special beauty. But nothing prepared me for the magnificence of the Golden Hall in Vienna's Musikverein, which is home to the renowned Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. It was a drizzly grey day when we, a party of four in the city to celebrate a friend's milestone 70th birthday, arrived at the imposing building. Immediately I noticed that we were hopelessly underdressed — me in sneakers and under a cosy, unflattering puffer jacket covering a bulky sweater and casual slacks. It was 11am on a Sunday morning, but this 'subscription concert' (where you buy a season ticket and therefore have first pick of seats), inspired Vienna's societal elite to don their finest garb. People dress up for these events, and oh, what a spectacle it was. Formal fashion Women glided along in floor-length, mid-length and short evening gowns, some covered in sequins that ignored the daylight etiquette rule (though whose rule that is remains unknown). Furs, high heels, one tiara, gleaming jewels; men in jacket and tie or dress suits with traditional white silk opera scarves… the fashion was formal. Scent wafting off the concertgoers perfumed the foyer. Traditionally guttural German tripping of tongues sounded unusually melodic and sweet. But none of this — not even the thrill of the dress-up — prepared me for the inside of the Musikverein. We climbed and climbed flight after steep flight of stairs to get to the boxes lining the edges of this magnificent gilded hall, opened on 6 January 1870 by Emperor Franz Joseph. And then, breathless but exhilarated, we were in our eyrie beneath a canopy of golden splendour, the ceiling mural adorned with images of Apollo and the nine muses. Columns shaped like ancient female figures — golden caryatids — added to the grandeur of this space that is known for its acoustics and rated as one of the three finest concert halls in the world, along with Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and the Boston Symphony Hall. Remember, we had to contend with what tickets were left over after regular concertgoers had booked their season tickets, so we could hear but only see the orchestra if we craned over seated heads to glimpse the mostly penguin-suited men below. Dotted in between were women in demure black, mostly on violin or percussion instruments. The introduction of women musicians in the orchestra is a new phenomenon — it was, astonishingly, the sacred preserve of men until 1997. This concert taking place on a cool damp Sunday morning in the City of Dreams was particularly special and highly unusual for Vienna: all the main roles — composer, conductor and piano soloist — were played by women. Up first was Lithuanian composer and pianist Raminta Šerkšnytė's 2009 composition, Midsummer Song, for which the instrumentation was described as 'string orchestra with optional percussion with one performer: triangle, shaker, rain stick, wind chimes and vibraphone'. The 50-year-old composer named nature 'with its metaphorical comparison to the archetypical states of the human mind' as her main inspiration, describing her work as a 'pantheistic song, like a long journey to eternal light and to our inner peace of mind'. It was melodic. I found it moving. I loved it. But they're a hard lot to please, these knowledgeable Vienna music lovers. A woman seated close by muttered: 'I doubt that will ever be played in this hall again!' Dark-haired and petite with a powerful waving conductor's arm, 38-year-old Lithuanian Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (her credentials include serving as musical director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra), was more warmly received. Not so much the globally controversial 38-year-old Beijing-born American pianist Yuja Wang, whose skimpy attire fashion sense has been universally criticised. She emerged from the wings in a silver bare-backed bandage dress that barely covered her modesty, finished off with six-inch Louboutin red-soled heels. Sequined, modest-gowned women in our box bristled. 'She lets down women,' my neighbour whispered. 'Prostitute,' another woman said under her breath, but loudly enough to be heard. Transfixed Then Wang began playing that most popular concerto ever written, Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor, her fingers expertly moving across the keys, her short black hair flying, her small body swaying, vibrating, moving to the music. We were transfixed as the exposed muscles in her shoulder blades rippled. My humiliation (and my friend's embarrassment) came at the first lull in the music when, with much enthusiasm and vigour, I began clapping. My neighbour waved her hands wildly in my face, shouting at me in German. Someone interpreted: She says stop clapping. You DO NOT clap between movements. The typical concerto is in three movements, or sections: a fast movement in sonata form, a slow and lyrical movement, and then another fast movement. I now know that the convention is that you do not clap until the end, a red-faced lesson learned in Vienna, in the beautiful Golden Hall. I remained seated and silent during the Sibelius Lemminkäinen Suite that ended the concert. What is it with women and the arts through the ages? I saw a series of exhibitions across London and Vienna — Dürer, Bruegel, Arcimboldo, Bassano, Edvard Munch, Goya, the impressionists Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Picasso, Cézanne. Not one single woman artist among them. Did women choose not to paint or sculpt or draw? The art history books tell us it was not encouraged and they were left to expend their creative energy on traditional arts more suited to women — like embroidery. I must admit that I was surprised by how recent was the admission of women to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. I wonder, too, why these older women concertgoers perpetuate women-hating stereotypes. Calling a young woman a prostitute because of her fashion choice seems a bit archaic in 2025. DM Charmain Naidoo is a journalist and media strategist.
