A long weekend in Lisbon… When someone asks my advice on where to travel or where I would like to go next, I usually advise them to go to Paris – adding that I would like to go (back) there next. Paris, after a one-year stay and a few visits back, will always remain on my list of places to go back to next. Otherwise I have given the advice to travel elsewhere in France, to Italy, or Spain, and if I must pick a place I have never been to,...

When one hears the artistic term ‘Pointillism’ or ‘Neo-Impressionism’ a bright image of multi-coloured dots usually comes to mind. I think of Seurat’s La Grande Jatte , which, inspired by the scientific writings of the 19th century is often experienced as the pinnacle of the movement. However, there is a world behind this one immediate notion of the artistic term ‘Pointillism’. Although French and Belgian followers of the brief artistic...