US Customs and Border Protection officer with travelers at the Tijuana and San Diego US-Mexico border crossing Credit: via Shutterstock Published Jun 5, 2026, 3:38 PM EDT Ethan Cotler is a travel writer who specializes in arts travel. His passion for the arts began when he interned at a local art gallery in high school, and he has gone on to visit museums around the world, including the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, and the Louvre in Paris.