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By Laura Pearson for the Orbitz Travel Blog Drab landscape paintings, sad still lifes, framed stock photos, garish lobby sculptures. Too often hotel art is amateurish and unconsidered—if not an outright affront to visu...

In Buddhist tradition, a mandala is a sacred image that graphically represents the universe and is intended for use during meditation. Typically circular in shape, a mandala has a central point -- called a "seed" or "dro...

Thousands of spectators lined the streets of downtown Raleigh Saturday morning for the 70th anniversary of the Raleigh Christmas Parade.

Like a René Magritte painting come to life, Robert Dekkers' latest assault on the conventions of theatrical dance piles up one absurd image on another in precise, deliberate fashion, leading us rapidly from a vision of ...

Ensemble Caprice, a Montreal-based baroque group, offered an entertaining program of Latin American music spanning the 16th to the 18th centuries on Friday at the Library of Congress. Soprano Shannon Mercer and five inst...

Earlier this year we tackled together! several home-bettering, bite-sized tasks over a few weekends with Apartment Therapy Weekend Projects. From finally hanging a piece of art, to organizing our junk drawers to cleaning...

BERLIN (AP) -- A watercolor of Munich's old city hall painted by Adolf Hitler a century ago has been sold for 130,000 euros ($162,000) at an auction in Germany. Kathrin Weidler, director of the Weider auction house in Nu...

Baiyina's Sophisticated 'Paris Meets Los Angeles' Home You've added curtains that block out that annoying street light. You've turned the temperature down in your bedroom. It was tough, but you've stopped surfing the web...

What do you do with a perfectly good, sturdy piece of furniture that has potential but is a bit heavy visually on the eyes? If you're Kim, you give it a fresh paint job and add some design details that make this piece on...

They survived Ebola, but their ordeal is far from over. French photographer Livia Saavedra travelled to the Guinean capital Conakry in October to document Ebola survivors who have returned to their communities. Some have...

A new drama is in the works that takes a dramatic look at the lives of two queer people at crossroads in their lives. Called "Retake," the film follows a young male prostitute who is hired by a middle-aged man to embody ...

Brian & Brad's Artfully Modern Apartment Though in some ways a boring bedroom could be a good thing -- after all, a lack of distractions could calm, which might be just what you need to fall more soundly asleep at night....

As her 2014 winds to a close, Ann Hampton Callaway has much to celebrate. Earlier this month, the actress and singer-songwriter surprised fans when she announced she'd tied the knot with longtime partner, Kari Strand, wh...

Even though Beyonce was able to keep an entire album and its music videos under wraps last year, two new songs off her "Beyonce Platinum" box set surfaced online in just a few days. In what we hope was an attempt to stay...

In the middle ages, tapestries depicted sprawling battles between gods and monsters, human beings and mythical beasts, precarious moments on the divide between the mortal world and eternal hell. Fast forward some sixteen...

In case you had any doubts, art need not be physically large to make a big impact. To prove the point, Flowers Gallery has curated its 40th edition of "Small is Beautiful," a beloved exhibition challenging artists from e...

This post originally appeared on Slate. By Jordan G. Teicher India's highways are hectic. In a single trip, a driver might encounter bikes, motorcycles, ox-drawn carts, rickshaws, pedestrians, and herds of animals. But e...

A glass of wine, an adorable pug, a jar of Nutella. Not only does Ivan Hoo have an inhuman ability to transform worldly objects into drawings, he also has great taste in subject matter. Hyperrealist junkies, feast your e...

Melbourne, Florida - Around 6:42 p.m. Friday night, a lone protester arrived at King Center for the Performing Arts to speak out against comedian Bill Cosby. "I strongly feel Mr. Cosby should stay at home," said Julie Le...

Melbourne, Florida - Around 6:42 p.m. Friday night, a lone protester arrived at King Center for the Performing Arts to speak out against comedian Bill Cosby. "I strongly feel Mr. Cosby should stay at home," said Julie Le...

Also known as Chinese broccoli or Chinese kale, the vegetable is easy to grow and flavorful to cook.

Peter Hotton answers readers' questions about home maintenance and repair.