For decades, a small but mighty painting by the artist Piet Mondrian has greeted visitors in the grand vestibule of the Park Avenue apartment where the...
The four cavernous wings of Cambodia’s national museum are so packed with objects that visitors need to watch their elbows while strolling among the roughly 1,400...
Lisa Schiff sat at her kitchen table, trying to explain how she went from being one of the world’s most celebrated art advisers to a high-society...
In My Obsession, one creative person reveals their most prized collection. Allison Janae Hamilton is greeted by seven generations of women in her family every time...
Rutherford Chang, a conceptual artist who turned his collection of the Beatles’ “White Album” into a meditation on the aging of a vinyl classic — and...
The California Historical Society, facing longstanding financial challenges exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, has decided to dissolve and transfer its collections to Stanford University. The society,...
Yuko Mohri thought she knew what the Japanese government wanted from its artists: something conservative and quiet. It certainly wasn’t a renegade punk rocker with a...
Two sheets of yellowed stationary are crumpled but intact, with typewritten lyrics and scribbled changes that offer a rare glimpse into the creative process of their...
Jonny Carmack was perusing the aisles of a store in his hometown, Danbury, Conn., when he first saw it: a giant strawberry sitting on a shelf....
As the flames grew closer and closer to his home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles and his teenage daughter pleaded with him over...
