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DID you first visit Bilbao in Spain to explore Frank Gehry’s titanium-clad Guggenheim? Or travel to Japan to tour the art island of Naoshima? Have you heard about the new Hauser & Wirth gallery on Isla del Rey, Menorca, or of the priceless art collection inside Lopud 1483, a former monastery turned hotel in Croatia?

Art tourism is booming and one of the best places to experience it is Cape Town, South Africa. Stay at the lofty and luxurious Silo Hotel that sits atop the new Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in the city’s V&A Waterfront district. The museum and hotel

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