City dwellers don't happen across such a pretty place all that often, in Los Angeles, California, or really anywhere else. For sure, parks, with their lush and varied treescapes and bounties of ...

1,225. That’s the number of lush, fruit-bearing olive trees that once populated what’s now Barnsdall Art Park. 463? That’s what’s left. Oil heiress, arts lover and philanthropist Aline Barnsdall ...

Vincent van Gogh, "Olive Grove, Saint-Rémy" (November 1889), oil on canvas (Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden, photo by Hossein Sehatlou, Gothenburg Museum of Art) “Ah, my dear Theo, if you could see ...

Los Angeles’s Barnsdall Art Park, a hilltop city-park-slash-cultural-campus that rises above the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vermont Avenue, is best known for its sweeping city views, arts ...

"The Olive Trees," on loan from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, is a companion piece to the world-famous "The Starry Night," painted at the same time. Robert Gerhardt / The Museum of Modern Art, ...

They may not be quite as famous as his sunflowers or self-portraits, but Vincent van Gogh’s olive-tree paintings still represent an important entry in his sprawling oeuvre of more than 2,000 works.

TORRETTA, Sicily — Watching Giovanni Caruso prune an olive tree is like observing a mountain climber decide how to reach the next hand-grip in a cliff. He chooses his path with deliberation. He even ...