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By Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — The 20th annual installment of Frieze — London’s biggest and most influential art fair — has officially begun. Recently dubbed “a graveyard of creativity for tasteless one percenters” by one critic, Regent’s Park welcomed a mixture of flushed international art collectors, industry insiders and the city’s style set. And

By Tom Page, CNN (CNN) — You’d be forgiven for thinking the resurgence of airships and blimps was a load of hot air. This is, after all, the means of flight which plummeted in the public’s estimation in an inglorious blaze with the 1937 Hindenburg disaster. Ungainly, slow and prone to accidents, they were superseded

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — “Love is strong, but our bolt cutters are stronger,” reads a new Facebook post from Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. In the post shared on social media earlier this week, the park management expresses concern about ‘love locks.’ These popular objects are padlocks that are hung from a

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Classical Greek marble sculptures today appear crisp and white. But they weren’t always that way, according to a new study, which found the famous 2,500-year-old Parthenon sculptures were colorful, painted with floral patterns and other elaborate designs. By using a noninvasive imaging technique, researchers at the British Museum — where

By Ananda Pellerin, CNN (CNN) — The world of Sarah Lucas is crowded with body parts. During a career spanning over three decades, the London-born artist has amassed hundreds — if not thousands — of arms, legs, breasts and backsides, mixing irreverence and innuendo to make sculptures, self-portraits, and works on paper that raise eyebrows

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — From parking their vehicles for the day to purchasing annual passes, visitors to Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, are going to be paying more to enjoy that Mickey Mouse magic. Again. The latest increases were announced and went into effect on Wednesday, October 11. That happens to be the

Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — As overtourism continues to throttle European cities, one destination has taken a step against cruise ships, restricting access to the port. Barcelona has closed its northern port terminal to cruise traffic, after an agreement with the local authorities to move ships further out of town. Cruise ships must now dock

Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, CNN (CNN) — From dramatic humpback breaches to enthralling dolphin acrobatics, a springtime visit to the Azores is synonymous with incredible sightings of whales and dolphins. The remote Portuguese archipelago, consisting of nine volcanic islands about 900 miles west of Lisbon, lies in the North Atlantic Ocean, putting it on the migration route

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department is warning Americans to reconsider travel to Israel in the wake of the weekend’s deadly Hamas attacks. The agency raised its travel advisory level on Wednesday to Level 3: Reconsider Travel because of civil unrest and terrorism, advising that “the situation in Israel remains dynamic; mortar and

By Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — A British Airways flight from London to Tel Aviv made an abrupt U-turn shortly before it was due land in the Israeli city on Wednesday as the airline canceled all flights to the destination amid safety concerns. Flight BA165 from London’s Heathrow Airport was on the approach to Tel

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — As Juul’s popularity began to surge in 2016, the sleek USB-shaped e-cigarette was seemingly everywhere overnight, with clouds of vapor and the audible crackle of a deep pull. If you were a millennial, brought up amid secondhand smoke in homes and restaurants in the ’80s and ’90s (like this

By Natty Kasambala, CNN London (CNN) — It was a painting in the lobby of a Benin hotel last year that changed the way Afrobeats star Mr Eazi thought about art. “I saw this piece by (Benin-based artist) Patricorel of two skeletons sitting on a bench,” the 32-year-old Nigerian music star told CNN in an

By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Though he may not wear his hair quite as tall and unkempt as he once did, and he’s ditched the smeared eyeliner and all-black dress code, founding member of The Cure Lol Tolhurst still considers himself goth. Life looks vastly different now for Tolhurst, who played drums and keyboard

By Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN (CNN) — It’s a place that oozes sophistication, bonne humeur and joie de vivre, conjuring up an air of elegance unlike anywhere else on Earth. This is the Côte d’Azur, the grand dame destination for European vacations. Stretching from Cassis to Menton in the far southeast of France,

By Jessie Yeung and Emiko Jozuka, CNN Tokyo, Japan (CNN) — In an ink illustration, two siblings clutch their worldly possessions — a few bags and suitcases bearing the label “13660.” The same digits are pinned to their clothing, denoting the number their family was assigned at the detention camp they are about to enter.

By Niamh Kennedy and Sharon Braithwaite London (CNN) — Flights at London’s Luton Airport are due to resume hours after the break out of a “significant” fire in the airport’s Terminal 2 parking lot, the airport said in a statement on Wednesday. The first flights were expected to depart from 3 p.m. local time, according

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Voting is over in Katmai National Park & Preserve’s annual Fat Bear Week contest, in which the public picks from 12 big ‘n’ bulky bears in an online brackets-style tournament. The 2023 winner is a defensive mama bear who has successfully raised two litters of cubs and who “often

By Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — A spooky image of a mushroom, a beached orca taking its final breaths, and a pair of Nubian ibex battling on a clifftop are among the winning images of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023 competition. This year’s grand title was awarded to French underwater photographer and marine

By Sowmya Krishnamurthy (CNN) — Chanel’s 1991 Fall-Winter ready-to-wear show was set in Paris, but its soul was right off the streets of New York City. A remix of Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” blared overhead as one thousand or so spectators, like “Rocky” actors Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren, gazed at

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — A regular fixture in the style press, LA-born actor Chris Pine is a consistently top ranking name across best dressed lists. There was the red velvet Etro suit jacket Pine paired with a matching pussybow shirt for the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscar Party, or of course his fashion forward,