NEW YORK—Pierre-Jean David was just 5 years old when his father joined the French Republican army in 1793. ...

If well-selected, a collection of small items can be worth more than the sum of its parts. Ancient ...

NEW YORK—It used to be that Chinese buyers of Chinese art stuck to Qing Dynasty (1644–1912) and Ming ...

NEW YORK—The Met’s newest multi-departmental exhibit, Interwoven Globe, features a fair number of costumes, but it is not ...

Models moved at an unhurried pace, bowing to each other and opening their arms to reveal huge embroidered ...

NEW YORK—In an inconspicuous glass case at the Morgan Library & Museum lie nine letters representing where the ...

NEW YORK—On the evening of Oct. 29, 2012, I sat mutely in my Sheepshead Bay home as a ...

NEW YORK—According to its mission statement, the Society of Illustrators was founded in 1901 to “promote generally the ...

As a lead dancer, she is present in nearly all the dance numbers, and showcases her extreme flexibility ...

Tennis elbow affects as many as half of all tennis players at some point, according to WebMD. http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/tennis-elbow-directory ...

The seemingly obsessive human impulse to categorize everything in existence, and its inherent traps and tradeoffs, are the ...

It’s much easier to decorate with simple, neutral modern carpets, but working with antique Oriental rugs takes experience ...

The Metropolitan Museum didn't actively start collecting pastels until 2002. But the artwork in that small collection are ...

NEW YORK—As human beings, we instinctively avoid pain—the sting of nettles, the burn of a hotplate, the pinching ...

While ketamine does not cure neuropathic pain, treatment can put the patient into remission long enough to give ...

On one level, her images of water in their various incarnations—sea, fog, cloud, ice—explore the multifarious manifestations of ...

Of all religious accoutrements, rosaries or prayer beads are possibly the most universal.

Misaki Matsui uprooted her life as a marketer, and like so many other aspiring artists, came to the ...

Call it commoditizing art or just smart business. Carré d’artistes on Bleecker Street just opened this month, bringing ...

NEW YORK—Today, Charles Brunold—tall, bespectacled, and soft-spoken with a French accent—runs one of Soho's most beloved made-to-measure suit ...

FIT graduate Marguerite Dabaie is working on her latest project: a historical graphic novel about a seventh century ...

NEW YORK—The lobby of the Brooklyn Museum looked like the Antiques Roadshow on Saturday, July 20. The museum ...

Devon Shops in Manhattan makes English and French furniture the old way: by hand.

THEATERClassical Theatre of HarlemRichard Rodgers Amphitheater in Marcus Garvey ParkJuly 13–30 The Classical Theatre of Harlem is aiming ...

NEW YORK—If you found Eric March through his paintings, you'd be taken by his lyrical depictions of the ...

Volunteers of the Roof Raisers Curatorial Brigade are getting trained to help in New York's cash-strapped historic houses.

MUSICSummerstageVarious locationsUntil Aug. 29 City Parks Foundation has launched the 2013 season of SummerStage presented by AT&T, New ...