The “Danner Memorial Window," created in 1913 and a prime example of Tiffany’s glass, set a world auction record for a Tiffany window at $1,986,000.

A 1923 creation of Arthur Scherbius, Berlin, the Enigma juggled 22 billion different code combinations and is the ancestor of the personal computer.

The 1943 missive signed by Patton gave his thoughts on an new armored division and was the event’s top lot.

Christie’s December 13 auction of Old Master pictures realized $81.1 million, the highest ever total for a sale in this category.

Mistakenly considered only the work of itinerants, tramp art creations were actually produced in many homes as a hobby.

Before emigrating to the United States in 1933, Grosz “was frequently prosecuted for insulting public morals and for blasphemy."

An important exhibition and several new books explore the history of buying, selling and showing art and antiques.

Sir George Birdwood, an Englishman living in India in the late Nineteenth Century, took note of that country’s vigorous commerce in artworks. “In India everything, as yet, is hand wrought," he wrote, “and is therefore more or less a work of art."

The first one-man show in the United States devoted to the work of this manuscript illuminator opens at the Morgan Library on January 25.

This traveling exhibition illustrates how the craft of glassmaking was influenced by historical events and changing social values in the ancient Roman world.