There’s an art to guiding museum tours — and this guide is one very haughty artist. A staffer at Düsseldorf’s Kunstpalast art museum puts on a twice-monthly “Grumpy Guide” tour in which the surly ...

The impression many tourists have of European museums is a serious atmosphere where people quietly take in historic artefacts and speak in hushed tones, if at all. But many museums are fighting this ...

He calls himself 'Grumpy Guide' Joseph Langelinck, and his museum tours at the Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf are booked out for months. His recipe for success? He insults and humiliates his customers.

Chefs are the new rock stars, food the new entertainment, wine the new way to get drunk and be able to show off about how rich and clever you are at the same time. Food and wine and the pretentious ...