At Large
The recently passed National Defense Authorization Act gives the U.S. Department of Treasury one year to create rules to hamper money laundering and financing of terror organizations…
Providing a new hub for Amtrak and the Long Island Rail Road, the space includes a one-acre sky-lit atrium, free wifi, a floating clock, and world-class public art.
Calling out modernist designs of the past seventy years, the order seeks a return to the Classically-inspired architecture of our founding fathers.
How an idealized visual representation of the male form that originated in Ancient Greece has survived more or less intact until today
A French metal detectorist thought he could cash in on his finds by duping the French government, but officials saw through his ploy.
The coffee-table tome "Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists" is a must-have monograph for anyone interested in assembling—or simply appreciating—a momentous art collection.
Traveling from Düsseldorf to Tel Aviv, the man carried a canvas by surrealist master Yves Tanguy in a flat cardboard box. When he reached his final destination, he realized to his horror that he did…
Though the popularity of chess has seen a major uptick lately, the strategic game is no passing fad.
A leading expert on the works of Leonardo da Vinci thinks she has found a new drawing by the Renaissance master.
One of the world's best-known and least-seen collections of marble statuary is making its twenty-first-century debut.
German police have arrested three men in connection with the daring theft of more than a billion dollars in diamonds last year.
As the owner of contemporary art by luminaries such as Cy Twombly, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol, Baltimore-based writer and filmmaker John Waters might have considered offering his collection to a…
The great American artist Wayne Thiebaud turns 100 on Sunday, and he seems unfazed.
The Column of Trajan, attributed to the architect Apollodorus of Damascus, was completed in 113 A.D. and stands at 126 feet tall. Here is the history of this iconic Roman monument.
