From their modest Manhattan digs, Constance Lowenthal and her staff do their best to foil the criminals who swipe treasures for a living
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In The World Beneath, the sequel to his best-selling Dinotopia, author-artist James Gurney unveils a ravishing, action-packed adventure
Review of 'Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines'
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Sporting faux fur to gold to the front lawn, old clunkers are getting decked out as art cars the ultimate vehicles of self-expression
Writer Simon Winchester explores Stevenson's life and proves why he is still loved today
By turning the ordinary flashlight, spoon or clothespin into a colossal monument, this artist chisels away at society's solemnity
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A short walk from the uphill end of the Fisherman's Wharf trolley line is a former working-class neighborhood that is the city's new home for the arts
Review of 'Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science'
Gag writers and cartoonists are good pen pals as long as they can get a laugh in seven seconds (tick, tick . . .)
In search of the transcendent, the Dutch painter created grids of red, blue and yellow that are very much with us
It's a story grounded in a real labor of love sore muscles, hand-stitched costumes, and dreams of grace and aspirations fulfilled
A self-styled bohemian of the mid-19th century, the young photographer captured the spirit of the time in portraits now on exhibit at the Met
At the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., a ground-breaking exhibition has retrieved a life of true genius
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