10/29/2019. One of the plainest, yet also most poignant items at the Chrysler Museum of Art’s exhibition highlighting Thomas Jefferson as an architect is a worn, reddish-brown brick with a handprint. The handprint very likely belonged to one of the many ...

12/01/2019. Marc Atlan, a creative director in the fashion and perfume industries, moved to Los Angeles 20 years ago, with a substantial art collection he amassed in France and has continued to add to it, often to his wife’s chagrin. But, he admits somew...

02/10/2022. The Kirov Academy in Washington D.C., an elite ballet school founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church, plans to close in May after serving as an important dance training ground for three decades. Parents were informed b...

04/01/2022. Richard Lipez, the author of a series of crime novels centered on an openly gay detective who, unlike the one-dimensional depictions common in the genre in the 1980s and ’90s, is not a tortured soul or a freak but a relatable character who is co...

05/07/2023. Lorraine Hansberry didn’t have the luxury of getting “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” right. In October 1964, days after the play opened on Broadway, a headline appeared in The New York Times: “Lorraine Hansberry Ill, P...

05/08/2023. Menahem Pressler, a celebrated pianist who fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and, after establishing himself in postwar America, co-founded the Beaux Arts Trio, which became the world’s reigning piano-violin-cello ensemble and dazzled audiences for a ha...

06/01/2023. To pursue her dreams of stardom, Lorna Courtney didn’t have to move far away from home. But she did have a lengthy daily commute. In her teens, she would take a bus and two trains (or three, “depending on how long I wanted to walk”) fr...

05/25/2023. Introduction Used items continue to be purchased and sold on Craigslist, and it continues to be a popular platform for flipping. For those looking to make some extra money in 2023, several items stand out as particularly profitable, accordi...

06/04/2023. The eye wanders, and the mind reels at the breadth and depth of history, virtuosity and delights offered in Heritage's June 22-25 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction. Where to begin among the nearly 1...

06/18/2023. When a pipe burst in the warehouse that contained the artworks of painter Nachume Miller, flooding the storage facility with pools of water and destroying hundreds of drawings and paintings, it was a wake-up call for Miller’s son, Danny Miller. He jo...

06/30/2023. Many years ago, I worked as a salesperson at Hugo Boss in the Beverly Center in Los Angeles. I sold the range of things the store carried: luggage, accessories, underwear, clothing. But what I most relished selling was men’s suits, because a goo...

07/04/2023. Robert Sherman, a charming, easygoing radio personality who hosted three long-running shows over more than a half-century on the New York classical music station WQXR-FM, died Tuesday at his home in Ossining, New York, in Westchester County. He was 9...

07/12/2023. More than four years of family conflict over the estate of Aretha Franklin ended Tuesday when a Michigan jury decided what her family could not — which of two hand-scrawled wills represented the famed singer’s true wishes for how to divide ...

07/23/2023. The break-in looked like the work of professionals. It began after midnight on Nov. 22, 2022, when someone cut fiber optic cables at a telecommunications center in the small German town of Manching, in Bavaria, knocking out internet and telephone ...

09/13/2023. A decade ago, priced out of renting an apartment and studio in Los Angeles, artist Dominique Moody built a steel-clad, wood structure on a 20-foot flatbed trailer. It was an experiment in making a small, mobile abode before the tiny home trend took o...