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  • Nature, history and imagination infuse new wallpapers that help a room tell a story

    July 26, 2023 - 8:52 AM

    In the Emmy-nominated opening credits of HBO’s “White Lotus,” wallpaper-like images told a story: The tropical prints started off innocuously enough, but then turned ominous. Fruit started rotting, fish got tangled in seaweed, and a sense of foreboding set the whole premise of an exotic paradise on its edge.

  • Louvre Museum and Versailles Palace evacuated after bomb threats with France on alert

    October 14, 2023 - 10:09 AM

    PARIS (AP) — The Louvre Museum in Paris and Versailles Palace evacuated visitors and staff Saturday after receiving bomb threats, police said. The French government started deploying 7,000 troops to increase security around the country after a fatal school stabbing by a suspected Islamic extremist.

  • 5 things to look for during King Charles III's coronation

    May 05, 2023 - 11:24 PM

    LONDON (AP) — King Charles III’s coronation is a chance to unite people with the history and pageantry of the monarchy, but those traditions are also full of potential controversies as he tries to show that the monarchy still has a role to play in modern Britain.

  • Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum hosts blockbuster Vermeer exhibition

    February 07, 2023 - 3:02 AM

    AMSTERDAM (AP) — Some art lovers make it a mission to visit and view as many works as possible by 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer.

  • The pandemic, Karens, crypto craziness: We're over you, 2022

    December 02, 2022 - 7:34 AM

    NEW YORK (AP) — The rudeness pandemic, the actual pandemic and all things gray. There's a lot to leave behind when 2022 comes to a close as uncertainty rules around the world.

  • New York's Hamptons offer a feast of indoor, outdoor art

    October 14, 2022 - 7:46 AM

    On the eastern end of Long Island, New York, lies a trove of art venues and a rich cultural scene to explore at leisure. You can find works in lush gardens and meadows, on manicured lawns, around ponds with waterlilies, by marshy creeks, and in historic Hamptons buildings.

  • Long-hidden synagogue mural gets rehabbed, relocated

    August 15, 2022 - 10:07 PM

    BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) —

  • Reviving Mexico's groundbreaking muralism a century later

    August 10, 2022 - 11:30 AM

    POXINDEJE, Mexico (AP) — A painter in orange overalls touches up the image of a hand holding a rifle while an artist perched on scaffolding painstakingly places bits of colorful ceramic in a mosaic of a guerrilla fighter.

  • Masterpiece leaves storage as Antwerp museum nears reopening

    March 15, 2022 - 12:36 PM

    ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Moving a masterpiece is never easy, even more so when it measures 4.11 by 6.75 meters (13.5 feet by 22.1 feet) and weighs 560 kilograms (1,225 pounds). Such is the size of the “Baptism of Christ,” by Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (1605), the jewel in the crown of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.

  • Romania's monument 'ambulance' races to save country's past

    July 05, 2021 - 11:55 PM

    MICASASA, Romania (AP) — On a scorching summer day in the remote Transylvanian village of Micasasa, 39-year-old Romanian architect Eugen Vaida is busy coordinating a team of volunteers helping to breathe new life into a centuries-old castle on the brink of ruin.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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