What's bigger than a picnic basket and even better than one in the eyes of black bears that call Yosemite National Park home?

Minivans driven by families with children who leave behind a trail of spilled juice boxes, Cheerios and coolers carrying other snacks, according to a study published this month in the Journal of Mammalogy.

Park scientists set out to study whether the bears had developed a taste for certain vehicle models after noticing that more minivans seemed to get broken into than other types of cars.

Their research proved them right: Minivans represented 29 percent of the 908 vehicles torn into by bears between 2001 and 2007, even though they made up just 7 percent of the cars that visited Yosemite.

Royal Caribbean won the award for best family cruise line and Carnival won in the category of best for first-time cruisers in CruiseCritic.com's annual editors' picks awards.

Royal Caribbean's Freedom Class of ships also won the awards for best cruises for kids and best for teens.

Holland America won in the best for cabins and best for activities categories, while Carnival won best for nightlife.

Other honors included Princess winning best for weddings at sea, the Celebrity Solstice and Equinox sister ships winning for best new ship, Carnival winning for best main dining, Oceania for best specialty restaurants and Celebrity winning for best healthy dining.

Best cruise for couples honors went to Azamara, while best for sophisticated singles went to Cunard. Crystal won best luxury cruise line, while Princess won best for romance and Lindblad won best for adventure.

The award for best river cruise line went to Uniworld, while Windstar won for best sailing ship.

Disney's Castaway Cay was named the best cruise line private island.

Galleries at El Museo del Barrio in New York City have reopened after an 18-month renovation.

El Museo del Barrio is the Museum Mile's only institution devoted to Latino art.

The museum's facilities have been reconfigured to include space for its permanent collection, a cafe, a new glass facade and a redesigned 4,500-square-foot courtyard. It is marking its 40th anniversary this year with public programming, events and performances.

The reopening included the launch of an exhibition titled "Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis." The show explores connections between Latino and non-Latino artists working in New York in the early 20th century, and how their exchanges and cross-influences impacted avant-garde art movements. The exhibition includes more than 200 works by artists from Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico and Uruguay, as well as U.S. and European artists working in New York.

The show will be on view through Feb. 28.

The museum is at 1230 Fifth Ave. between 104th and 105th streets. Manhattan's Museum Mile starts at 82nd Street with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Other museums on that stretch of Fifth Avenue include the Neue Galerie New York, the Jewish Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, the Guggenheim and the Cooper Hewitt.

The High Museum of Art has acquired 300 new works, including the museum's first paintings by Pierre Auguste Renoir.

The Atlanta museum's collection will now include "Woman Arranging Her Hat" and "Still-Life With Apples," both painted by the impressionist around 1890. Both paintings are already on display.

Other acquisitions not on view yet include a painting by folk artist William Hawkins, a woodcut self-portrait by modern artist Chuck Close and a sculpture by Rodin.

The High has more than 11,000 works of art in its permanent collection, including an extensive exhibition of 19th- and 20th-century American art and a growing collection of African art. The museum more than doubled its display space in 2005 by opening three new buildings by architect Renzo Piano.

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