Still time to catch some of the summer’s best European arts festivals

Summer is traditionally the time of year when cultural calendars are at their busiest, and your favourite Art Guide is full to bursting point with unmissable events.

While the English summer is slowly drawing to an end, other European countries continue to be bathed in sunshine, with a whole host of cultural and artistic events still to come before the clocks go back.

If you haven’t yet managed to get away for a summer break, now is the perfect opportunity to soak up those last rays of late-summer sun and take in some of the wonderful and diverse cultural events that Europe has to offer. Here are just a few of the events that lie in store over the next couple of months.

Schwarzenberg in Austria hosts a major chamber music festival from 27 August-12 September, attracting some of the world’s leading artists. Bernarda Fink, Ian Bostridge, Magdalena Kozena and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau all appear at this year’s edition, which will take place at the purpose-built Angelika Kauffmann Hall.

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The best art exhibitions in London this spring

London is home to many exciting and interesting art exhibitions this spring. The range of art on show is so diverse there’s something to satisfy everyone’s tastes.

If you’re looking to explore the artistic offerings of the capital city, the following exhibitions are currently running:

Former Turner prize-winner Chris Ofili is exhibiting at the Tate Britain until mid-May. His artwork is coloured with rich layering and shows an inventive used of mixed media, including glitter, resin, map pins and elephant dung. His work is noted for its references to his Nigerian heritage. Ofili won the Turner Prize in 1998 and was selected in 2003 to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale, where his work for the British Pavilion was done in collaboration with the architect David Adjaye.

‘Victoria & Albert: Art & Love in London’ is the first exhibition to focus on Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s love of art. The exhibition spans the length of their marriage and includes over 400 items from the Royal Collection, most of which were exchanged between the pair as tokens to mark special occasions. The exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery runs until October.

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For youngsters, a favorite XBox 360 video game is Cars, which is aptly named and modeled after the hit film of the same name. This story-based journey lets youngsters play through key movie moments, and have some fun in over thirty different races and games. There are over ten characters that kids can play and multi-player mode makes automobiles even more fun!

Kids and adults will adore playing DJ Hero for XBox 360. Have a battle of the DJs in your own home or online with turntables and a Guitar Hero controller. You get a turntable and mixer controller with your DJ Hero game – these let you scratch and mix to a variety of music content – you can choose the genre that suits you most perfectly. Multi-player modes include DJ vs. DJ, DJ and guitar, or DJ and DJ.

the best live music venue in Santa Fe?

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Somewhere between a concert style listening room and walk-in recording studio, Mike’s Music Exchange is a great place for live music and arts. At Mike’s Music Exchange the music always comes first. Our 1400 sq. ft. performance space is acoustically engineered for sound clarity; our 200 sq. ft. pumice filled bloodwood decked stage is designed to highlight the artist and to provide the best sounding stage in New Mexico. We also have video projection capabilities for full 1080p projection on our 12′ wide screen. We can accomodate up to 150 people seated and/or 80 people with tables, or a combination of the two as required. The venue is rentable for both private and public events.

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Mike’s Music Exchange is also a custom guitar shop with the best products and services on boutique guitars in Northern New Mexico. We are the exclusive dealers in this area for Line 6, The Heritage, Rainsong, The Loar, VHT, and many other products, and we offer guitar repairs and custom work on any kind of guitar you can bring into the store. Our lead technician is a 30 year veteran of guitar repair and customizations and a factory authorized repair technician for Taylor, Martin, and more.

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