John Oseid

As travel ventures go, arts and cycling are about as incongruous as you can imagine. Or, are they? Not in Bentonville, the small Northwest Arkansas town known mostly by outsiders for its Walmart connection. The city is booming with newcomer residents, and in a few short years visitors have been packing museums and hitting bike trails galore. And, you can do it all in one day.
Let’s start in the middle, as in Bentonville’s main square that is getting revitalized on all four sides. After severa...

Art hotels are a booming business these days, with some reaching new levels of outstanding curatorship. Cue the small 21C group of art hotels in southern and midwestern states for being among the finest. In Northwest Arkansas, the 104-room 21C Bentonville opened a dozen years ago at roughly the same time that the city’s celebrated Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art was established. With the new show Dress Up, Speak Up: Regalia and Resistance, the property continues to make a name for itse...

It’s always a shame when the nation’s great industrial past gets erased, when an old factory or warehouse that would make great a community space gets erased for gigantic generic condos. Well, Bentonville is doing it right. The Northwest Arkansas town has hit it big in developing an adaptive reuse project dubbed The Momentary, a satellite cultural hub of the city’s already celebrated Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
And fortunately, it smells just fine inside, considering that this is ...

It’s a wonderful thing these days that we can find fine art in the most unexpected of places. Head down a trail along a wooded ravine at the edge of Bentonville, Arkansas and suddenly up pops the celebrated Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (CB). Then take the artist KAWS whom you couldn’t miss if you tried for his larger-than-life pop characters that are beloved by worldwide audiences and serious collectors alike. Put them together and you now have the captivating exhibit KAWS: FAMILY t...

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The tourism sector in Florida’s Palm Beach County alone brings in $10 billion annually to the local economy and supports more than 85,000 jobs, according to the Discover The Palm Beaches promotion organization. As one of the country’s first major tourism sites, Palm Beach is famous for the celebrated historic Breakers Hotel, posh shopping along Worth Avenue and endless opportunities to enjoy polo, golf, boat shows, fine art, food and wine. With the good life beckoning, it would be easy to mis...

You know Florida’s Palm Beach for its glitz and glam, for the many larger-than-life figures that have shaped its history as a high society playground. You know how promoters and ambitious architects helped create one of early last century’s first luxury tourism destinations out of nothing. But collectively, The Palm Beaches have got a whole other side to discover right outside the hotels that line the barrier islands and along 47 miles of beach. Outdoor adventures and conservation themes can ...

Art hotels are happening these days. Some collections more impressive than others. Having started a few decades ago, one Barcelona hotel in the elegant Eixample district now displays some 1,000 fine pieces that all come from the personal holdings of the ownership family. Mounted all throughout the property, from public spaces to your room, the Majestic Hotel & Spa Barcelona’s artworks are your chance to discover—if you don’t know them already—major Spanish artists such as Antoni Tàpies and Ed...

With Barcelona booming these days, locals’ displeasure over hordes of visitors clomping around town has made lots of news. But rest assured that those looking for a classic and peaceful sojourn need only head to the ever elegant Eixample district where the grand Hotel El Palace Barcelona remains a stalwart of luxury on the Gran Via.
You feel the grandness of the 1919 Palace just as soon as you spin out of the revolving door and step into the marbled reception room with a chandelier, sweeping ...

As host of the 37th America’s Cup, Barcelona was abuzz in late summer and into fall with all kinds of civic events. To coincide with the 200th anniversary of the Passeig de Gràcia, famed tenor Josep (José) Carreras and flamenco dance star Sara Baras gave a free concert that included countless encores on a closed off stretch of the iconic avenue. The stage was right in front of the chamfered corner of the Majestic Hotel & Spa Barcelona, a reminder that one of the city’s most historic and celeb...