An Antiquarian's Tale

Humanity's interest in itself, the history, its possessions, the successes and failures--teaching tools, really--are one reason why museums exist. Museums are developed and run and subsidized by all of us in...

I was chatting about the English rooms at the Met with a friend recently and I was going on about how middle class England slowly developed through the 18th century...

I have often wondered if it is possible to measure aesthetic pleasure. One way a lot of us try to do it, for example, is to go to a museum, like...

About 45-50 years ago, I attended a fund raiser at a private home in New Canaan, Ct., for a school in Namibia. The school was started by a British husband...

I believe it was William Randolph Hearst who was the first to bring entire rooms from Europe to fit into San Simeon, his estate in California, but even if it...

The clarity that comes with expertise is less about instant comprehension and more about understanding signs that steer you to a conclusion that, on the whole, a piece of furniture...