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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Two years ago, Gustav Klimt’s final portrait — a vibrant portrait of an unidentified woman with a fan — topped the artist’s auction record when it sold for a staggering $108 million. The Austrian painter’s record is expected to be shattered again by a monumental, six-foot-tall portrait of a

By Wayne Chang, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — The Louvre’s “Mona Lisa,” the British Museum’s Rosetta Stone, MoMA’s “Starry Night” — major museums often have one must-see item that singlehandedly draws visitors from around the world. For the National Palace Museum, in Taiwan’s capital Taipei, the star attraction is somewhat humbler: a cabbage. Carved from

By Vivian Song, CNN Paris (CNN) — When the baguette received official UNESCO heritage status in Paris in 2022, the French delegation waved slender loaves of crusty bread triumphantly in the air, in a photo op that went viral around the world. French president Emmanuel Macron hailed the baguette as “250 grams of magic and

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — This week in travel: a secret garden is a secret no longer in Beijing, one of France’s classic pastries is the subject of a surprising debate, and why some couples are ditching each other at the airport. Divide and conquer He likes arriving four hours early for a domestic

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Just 80 years ago, traveling to Sydney or Melbourne from London or New York took more than a week. Now, a passenger aircraft that can complete make the journey without stopping is in the final stages of construction, Qantas announced on Friday, releasing first images of the plane as

By Marcel Krueger, CNN (CNN) — You’ve seen the French sauntering around with slender baguettes under their arms or sporting jaunty berets as they pedal bicycles laden with crusty bread. Those cinematic scenes are nice, but when you really get down to business — as my countrymen are inclined to do — it’s obvious that

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — In an age when clocks are found in most pockets and on every screen, watchmaker Col&MacArthur’s selling point is not just time, but history itself. Known for using unconventional materials — from Pearl Harbor seawater to meteorite moondust — in the name of horological storytelling, the brand is now

By Fred He Beijing (CNN) — When Ho Puay-peng first visited Beijing’s Forbidden City in the late 1980s, the Singaporean architect saw many of the historic courtyards used for storage, filled with garbage, and occupied by danwei (government offices). He summed it up with one word: “horrible.” That was when the majority of the sprawling

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The city of Paris has announced a lottery with a twist: Instead of a cash prize, entrants can instead win the chance to be buried in one of the French capital’s most celebrated cemeteries. The unusual plan aims to restore tombs that have fallen into disrepair, while also giving

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — There’s nothing quite like a festive market to bring out the Christmas spirit in people. While these events can be traced back to Vienna — the Austrian city’s first recorded December market was in 1298 — the tradition has spread across the world over the centuries. From Germany and

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — There are three things Amaarae can’t tour without — and no, it isn’t coke, ketamine and molly, despite what her song “Starkilla” suggests. Think more along the lines of a sauna, daily stretch routine and a bathroom floor so clean she could eat off of it. “Because I’m a

By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — Holding an elegant black box embossed with the words “World’s Best Rice” in gold, Japanese chef Kenichi Fujimoto tilts his head and smiles — a flicker of skepticism on his face. “These things are often very commercial and not necessarily good,” says the Hong Kong-based chef/owner of Sushi

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Sequins? In November? Groundbreaking. Yes, when Salma Hayek, Doja Cat, Iris Law, Angela Bassett, Alex Consani, Emma Roberts, Vittoria Cerretti, Demi Moore, Kaia Gerber and her supermodel mother Cindy Crawford arrived at the LACMA Art+Film Gala on Saturday, each wearing a glitzy dress by Gucci — the official sponsor

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Kaçkar Mountains, Turkey (CNN) — In the little wooden hut perched high on metal-wrapped stilts, the drone is high, loud and insistent. With his beekeeping suit on, but hands uncovered, Hasan Kutluata squeezes the bellows on his pine-filled bee smoker. Pale wreaths swirl in the air, mirroring the mist that drifts

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — The houses are worn by weather and time, photographed in isolation like forgotten monuments. They have a haunted feel: Windows are boarded on Victorian-era turrets; paint flakes off the towering composite columns of a once-grand portico; wraparound verandas, perhaps once host to evening nightcaps and slow Sunday mornings, are

By Jeanne Bonner, CNN (CNN) — In our travel news round-up this week: advice for holiday travelers, a robot that could save old languages from dying out, plus a new super-luxurious overnight train in Italy. Holiday travel preview Have you thought about holiday travel yet? Time is just about up if you want the best

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — When Róisín Heneghan received a phone call 22 years ago announcing that her four-person architecture firm had been chosen to design one of the world’s largest museums, she thought it was a prank. She called the official back to ensure it wasn’t some elaborate ruse. “It was unreal,” she

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN London (CNN) — It’s only been open for six years, but Rosewood Hong Kong has quickly become a distinguished feature of Hong Kong’s iconic skyline, as well as a force to be reckoned with in the luxury hotel scene. And after landing in the top three of the World’s 50 Best

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Claire Chabaud-Tropéano was walking through the streets of Brooklyn, New York, wondering if that night was going to change her life forever. That evening, Parisian Claire felt like she’d stepped into the New York City-based movies she’d grown up with: tree-lined streets, rows of townhouses, fall leaves under her

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — It might be the most famous — or infamous — toilet in the world: the 220-pound, 18-karat solid gold throne by the artist Maurizio Cattelan, which drew some 100,000 visitors when it first exhibited in the bathroom of New York’s Guggenheim Museum in 2016. Three years later, thieves, armed