They glowed like shiny pearls plucked from exotic climes, gleaming through the smoke and haze of crowded cities built on industrial dirt and grime.

When the SS United States was launched in 1952, it was the era of crossing the Atlantic by ship, and people wanted to do it ...

Night - Scattered showers with a 84% chance of precipitation. Winds WNW at 16 to 21 mph (25.7 to 33.8 kph). The overnight low will be 45 °F (7.2 °C). Mostly sunny with a high of 55 °F (12.8 °C ...

Our art critic goes room-by-room through New York’s Gilded Age house museum, reopening after nearly five years. Don’t miss the new upstairs galleries. By Holland Cotter The darkly comic ...

“What makes it so juicy is that he’s being pecked to death by the very people who put him on the pedestal in the first place. The eco hippies.” ...

but the details of the paintings reveal a fascination with dream states and the psychological underbelly of domestic life. The recipient of many awards, Murray received the Skowhegan Medal in Painting ...