Gustav Klimt

New mystery and thriller books set amid the world wars

2012-07-22 00:00:00

Mysteries and thrillers set in the years surrounding and during our two world wars have become a cottage industry. From Ken Follett's "Eye of the Needle" in the 1980s to recent novels by Charles Todd and Jacqueline Winspear, the standouts blend enough...

Romantic getaways

2012-02-05 00:00:00

Berlin: Put Berlin next to Paris and you have both sides of the coin: romance, which occasionally appeals, and eros, which never fails. "Berlin is sexy," said the German capital's openly gay Mayor Klaus Wowereit, and it's been that way since the...

The Hotel Sacher in Vienna, Austria, has old-school charms

2012-04-29 00:00:00

VIENNA — The Hotel Sacher will never be mistaken for a hip hotel. The elaborate gilt trim in public rooms, the old-school celebrity photos that adorn the walls and the tourists in line to sample Sacher torte — all evidence that guests are...

Sunday: Building alternative worlds, William Gibson and 'The Lady in Gold'

2012-02-10 16:34:15

Jeweler Frey Wille hits Rodeo Drive on Friday

2012-02-23 16:32:51

Authors in L.A.: T.C. Boyle, Jodi Picoult and a busy week

2012-03-05 16:36:05

Concept LA Fashion Week, fall/winter 2012: Nuvula, Gypsy Junkies

2012-03-13 21:32:43

The Klimts and the Supreme Court

2012-03-18 16:37:39

San Diego museums receive $40-million art collection

2012-03-23 16:33:50

PASSINGS: Raul Ruiz

2011-08-20 00:00:00

Raul Ruiz, 70, a Chilean-born filmmaker who made more than 100 films in his teeming, international career and worked to put cinema on an artistic par with literature, died Friday at a Paris hospital following complications from a pulmonary infection, said...

Datebook: Events, exhibits, classes for the week ahead

2011-10-03 16:34:16

Monster Mash: Guggenheim's Abu Dhabi project; Ai Weiwei's Taiwan show

2011-10-24 16:32:51

Gustav Klimt, in a 1912 photograph from the book "The Lady in Gold" by Anne Marie O'Connor.

2012-07-16 09:33:44

A screengrab shows Google's latest Doodle, which celebrates the 150th birthday of "Kiss" artist Gustav Klimt .

2012-07-14 00:00:00

Gustav Klimt's "Adele Bloch-Bauer I"

2012-05-02 14:04:00