Latest

Cien Años de Soledad S1. Claudio Cataño as Aureliano in Cien Años de Soledad.
Mauro González/Netflix
‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’: How Netflix brought the imaginary town of Macondo to life
PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 30: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY - For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) Alex Consani walks the runway during the Ann Demeulemeester Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on September 30, 2023 in Paris, France. (Photo by Peter White/Getty Images)
Peter White/Getty Images
Alex Consani becomes first transgender Model of the Year
00712_017.jpg
Tom Harris/Amanda Williams LLC
An architect made blue paint from a nearly forgotten, century-old patent. Its use has become deeply symbolic
DSCF1461.jpg
E.A.Kahane
For over 25 years, this photographer had a window-side seat at the Macy’s Parade
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Adrian Langtry/Shutterstock (14077957b) 'Well Hung Lover,' also called 'Naked Man Hanging From Window' and simply 'Naked Man,' is a mural by the anonymous street artist Banksy, on a wall on Frogmore Street. It has been partially defaced since first appearing in 2006. 'Well Hung Lover' mural by Banksy, Bristol, England, UK - 15 Apr 2023
Adrian Langtry/Shutterstock
Buy a building, get a Banksy: ‘Well Hung Lover’ property goes on sale
20241104-bald-reddit-gfx-final.jpg
Photo Illustration by Jason Lancaster/CNN/Getty Images
‘Bro you look utterly reborn’: Is bald Reddit the nicest place on the internet?
Ben Shabad is crowned winner in a Jeremy Allen White lookalike competition at Humboldt Park in Chicago on Nov. 16, 2024. Shabad won $50 and a pack of cigarettes. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune/Getty Images
Celebrity lookalike contests are taking over the internet. But they aren’t new
_MG_0035-3-e.jpg
Francois Prost
Surreal photos of Japan’s most peculiar ‘love hotels’

Arts

Part of 2500 panda sculptures are displayed at the Hong Kong International Airport during a welcome ceremony of the panda-themed exhibition "Panda Go!" in Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
Chan Long Hei/AP
Hong Kong will display 2,500 panda sculptures to capitalize on a local bear craze
Coronations, protests and tightrope artists: Iconic images from Notre Dame’s history ahead of reopening
Letter from John Lennon asking Eric Clapton to form new supergroup with him goes up for sale
George Stubbs, The Spanish Pointer (esHmate: £1,500,000 – 2,000,000) This seminal pain2ng is the earliest and one of the most recognisable of all Stubbs’ depic2ons of dogs. Painted circa 1766-68, at the height of the ar2st’s career, it dates to the decade when Stubbs produced many of the pain2ngs for which he is most famous, including the Na2onal Gallery’s beloved Whistlejacket. The Spanish Pointer has only been exhibited once in the 250 years since it was painted and has only rarely appeared at auc2on.
Sotheby’s
George Stubbs dog painting expected to sell for up to $2.5 million at auction
‘Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’: The anti-apartheid photographer who turned his lens on Black America
Rare first edition of Machiavelli’s famous leadership treatise, ‘The Prince,’ goes up for auction
FILE - Artist Maurizio Cattelan's piece of art "Comedian" hangs on display during an auction preview at Sotheby's in New York, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)
Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP
Viral banana artwork has sold again — this time for $6.24 million
Stained-glass Tiffany window sells for record $12.48 million at auction
Italy recovers Etruscan artifacts dug up by ‘amateurish’ tomb raiders

Architecture

A rare penthouse inside a glimmering gold dome is up for sale in New York City.
Eitan Gamliely/Sotheby’s International Realty
Lavish gold-domed penthouse in New York City on sale for $25 million
Britain's 'best new building of 1996' to be demolished Centenary Building salford
Dennis Gilbert courtesy of Hodder and Partners
Award-winning building to be demolished less than 30 years after being built
DJI_0021-2.jpg
Victor Ramos
Americans are investing in ‘hurricane-resistant’ homes
02_Darlington-Public-School-by-fjcstudio-©-Brett-Boardman.jpg
Brett Boardman
This small suburban school was named the world’s best new building
This photograph taken on October 24, 2024, shows a view of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral. On October 24, 2024, the diocese reiterated the principle of "free admission to churches and cathedrals", defended by the Catholic Church in France, following Culture Minister Rachida Dati's proposal to charge tourists admission to Notre-Dame de Paris.
Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images
Notre-Dame’s bells ring out for the first time since the devastating 2019 fire
Nov 8, 2024
Test_towers_TK_rottweil_tt_top.jpg
TK Elevator
The skyscrapers where nobody lives
Nov 6, 2024
Muraba Veil, Side-profile, Canal View.
Courtesy RCR Arquitectes/Muraba
Super-thin skyscraper, just one apartment wide, planned for Dubai
Oct 22, 2024
Singapore's Pan Pacific Orchard
Darren Soh
‘Hotel in nature’: Inside the world’s best new skyscraper
Oct 6, 2024

Fashion

Barry Keoghan attends the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 15th Governors Awards at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles, California, U.S. November 17, 2024. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
Mario Anzuoni/Reuters
Look of the Week: Barry Keoghan makes the case for the male pussy-bow
Jacquemus Spring 2020
Justin Sutcliffe/Lightroom
How a humble strip of walkway changed fashion forever
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 09: Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande attend the Los Angeles Premiere of Universal Pictures "Wicked" at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on November 09, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Getty Images
Look of the Week: Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are still method dressing
Limited Too releases a collection for adults.
Limited Too
Limited Too makes a comeback, catering to grown-up fans
A model walks the runway during the CHANEL Cruise 2024/25 Hong Kong Replica evening show at the Hong Kong Design Institute, in Hong Kong, China on November 5, 2024.
Anthony Kwan/Getty Images
Chanel showcases dreamy resort collection in Hong Kong
Heidi Klum attends Heidi Klum's 23rd Annual Halloween Party at Hard Rock Hotel New York on October 31, 2024 in New York City.
TheStewartofNY/WireImage/Getty Images
Look of the Week: Heidi Klum arrives at annual Halloween bash in elaborate E.T. costume
Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls, 2004.
Paramount+/Imdb
Remember when Lindsay Lohan wore the unsexiest Halloween costume ever?
01 Olivia Munn Skims.jpg
Skims
‘Proof of how hard I fought’: Why Olivia Munn chose to show her mastectomy scars in new Skims campaign

Design

new jaguar concept car
Jaguar Land Rover
Jaguar reveals first concept car after controversial rebrand
Takao Doi, a former Japanese astronaut and professor at Kyoto University, holds an engineering model of LignoSat during an interview with Reuters at his laboratory at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan, October 25, 2024. REUTERS/Irene Wang
Irene Wang/Reuters
World’s first wooden satellite, developed in Japan, heads to space
A display of "Hello Kitty" items are seen at a press preview of the "CUTE" exhibition at Somerset House in London, England, on January 24, 2024.
Leon Neal/Getty Images/File
Hello Kitty at 50: The mouthless face that launched an $80 billion empire
Japanese toymaker MegaHouse has unveiled a miniature Rubik’s Cube.
TM & Spin Master Toys UK Limited
This is the world’s smallest Rubik’s Cube. And it actually works
Yang Liwei, deputy chief designer of China's manned space program, stands beside China's moon-landing spacesuit during the opening ceremony of the 3rd Space Suit Technology Forum on September 28, 2024 in Chongqing, China.
VCG/Visual China Group/Getty Images
China’s astronauts are aiming to land on the moon by 2030. They now have a new spacesuit to do it
CNN-1980-screenshot.jpg
CNN
Republicans are red and Democrats blue. But it wasn’t always that way

Beauty

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 05: Jools Lebron is seen in FiDi on September 05, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by The Hapa Blonde/GC Images)
The Hapa Blonde/GC Images/Getty Images
Dictionary.com has named its word of the year, and it isn’t ‘brat’
Miss Denmark, Victoria Kjær Theilvig, is crowned as Miss Universe 2024 in The 73rd Miss Universe Competition - show at Arena Ciudad de Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 16, 2024.
Hector Vivas/Getty Images
Denmark’s Victoria Kjær Theilvig wins Miss Universe 2024
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - NOVEMBER 14: Miss Chile Emilia Dides participates in the The 73rd Miss Universe Competition - Preliminary Competition at Arena Ciudad de Mexico on November 14, 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty Images)
Hector Vivas/Getty Images
See the best — and most outlandish — national costumes from Miss Universe 2024
Reed Putnam poses for a photo with onlookers of the Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest in Washington Square Park, New York City, on October 27.
Laura Oliverio/CNN
What looking like Timothée Chalamet taught me about fame
Choi Soon-hwa strikes a pose during rehearsals for Miss Universe Korea, on September 27, 2024.
Charlie Miller/CNN
Meet the 80-year-old Miss Universe Korea contestant proving age is just a number
Freya Rogers
Freya Rogers
Losing my sight as a child took away my self confidence. Makeup gave me it back
Krystyna Pyszková (C) and 7 contestants at the Miss World Grand Finale on March 9, 2024 Mumbai, India.
Prodip Guha/Getty Images
Woman challenges rules banning mothers from Miss America and Miss World pageants
D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards held at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)
Gilbert Flores/Variety/Getty Images
D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai’s bold Emmys statement highlights missing and murdered Indigenous women

Luxury

Newly Discovered Massachusetts Silver Threepence from 1652 Brings $2.52 Million<br />Rare Coin Found in a Piece of Old Furniture Breaks World Record
Stack’s Bowers Galleries
Rare silver coin struck before the American Revolution sets auction record, selling for $2.52 million
Modelled_A Rare and Highly Important 18th Century Diamond Jewel, to be sold by Sothebys in Geneva on 11 Nov 24, estimate 1,600,000 – 2,400,000 CHF $1,800,00 (15).jpg
Sotheby's
Huge diamond necklace linked to Marie Antoinette scandal sells for $4.8 million
14th November 1947: Mr Schur (centre), chief confectioner at McVitie and Price Ltd, standing next to the official cake for Princess Elizabeth's marriage to Philip Mountbatten which is nine feet tall. (Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
J. A. Hampton/Hulton Royals Collection/Getty Images
‘Very rare’ 77-year-old piece of cake from Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip’s wedding sells for $2,800
1.jpg
Courtesy Konstantin Сhaykin
Independent Russian watchmaker upends race to design world’s thinnest wristwatch
titanic postcard
Henry Aldridge and Son Ltd
‘Poignant’ postcard from excited Titanic passenger up for auction
SIGNED BY THE ARCHITECTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. JEFFERSON, THOMAS. 1743-1826; JOHN ADAMS. 1735-1826; AND BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 1706-1790. Letter signed ("John Adams," "Benjamin Franklin," and "Thomas Jefferson"), to the Envoy Extraordinary of the King of the Two Sicilies seeking negotiations for a Treaty of Amity and Commerce,
Courtesy Bonhams
Rare letter signed by Founding Fathers expected to fetch $1 million at auction
as we are specials page header maeva
CNN
As We Are
A series about the origins of certain societal standards and the forces rapidly expanding our definition of beauty today.

Popular Videos

thumb notre dame 1.jpg
French Pool via Reuters
Video First glimpse of Notre Dame after 5-year reconstruction 1:06
Nov 29, 2024
Notre Dame Reopens Thumb orig.png
AFPTV
Video Video: Notre Dame’s history of destruction and rebirth explained 1:58
Nov 29, 2024
Banana Sothebys.jpg
Reuters
Video See the ‘world’s most expensive banana’ that just sold for $6.2 million 0:51
Nov 21, 2024
01 Saudi World Cup Stadium.jpg
Populous/Reuters
Video See Saudi Arabia’s design plans for 2034 World Cup Stadium 0:58
Nov 20, 2024
431A6473.jpg
Rijksmuseum
Video Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ is being restored, and the public are invited to watch 1:30
Nov 12, 2024
Banana wide v1 cln.00_00_12_21.Still001.jpg
• Video 1:38
CNN
Video Collector eats world-famous $6.2M banana 1:38
Marina Abramović. <em>The Great Wall Walk.</em> 1988/2008
Courtesy of the Marina Abramović Archives
A couple walked from opposite ends of China’s Great Wall and met in the middle. Then they broke up
In 1988, the artist and her lover trekked from opposite ends of the Chinese landmark and met in the middle. Her new exhibition revisits the epic 90-day performance.

Photography

Svalbard_Cecilia-Blomdahl-3.jpg
Cecilia Blomdahl
What life is like in one of the most remote places on Earth
Khashayar-Javanmardi_01.jpg
Khashayar Javanmardi 2024 courtesy Loose Joints
Striking photographs document environmental decay on world’s largest lake
Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan, March 2, 2024. A group of teenage girls celebrate their friend's birthday at her house. Music and dancing have been forbidden by the Taliban but women continue to dance and celebrate in the privacy of their homes and behind the closed doors. © Kiana Hayeri for Fondation Carmignac
Kiana Hayeri for Fondation Carmignac
In this birthday party portrait, teenage girls celebrate in secret in Afghanistan
A young woman and her customer photographed by Mary Ellen Mark. The late American photographer gained remarkable access to Mumbai's red light district in the 1970s.
Mary Ellen Mark
A photographer gained rare access to Mumbai’s red-light district in the 1970s. Here’s what she saw
Woman_at_Sink_2013-2014
Gregory Crewdson
In Gregory Crewdson’s photographs, an enduring, haunted vision of American life
Vivian Maier Self-Portrait
Vivian Maier/Courtesy Fotografiska New York
The mysterious New York nanny who helped shape 20th-century street photography