Although the table had been pictured in an auction flyer, on Hessney's Web site, and advertised in area newspapers, few who previewed the sale recognized its form....
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. ...
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,...
This traveling exhibition illustrates how the craft of glassmaking was influenced by historical events and changing social values in the ancient Roman world. ...
More than 50 of Homer's most famous oil paintings and watercolors, along with less familiar but equally significant works from 1868 to 1881, will be featured at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art....