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Arts & Culture / Art & Artists

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Technical Intervention

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Modern Sculpture at the Getty

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The Game is Afoot

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The Town of Fables

Legion of Honor, one of San Francisco’s fine arts museums, at night in January 2017

Gap Founders Propose Art Museum in San Francisco’s Presidio

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In the Baltic States

Bed Hopping

I and the Village by Marc Chagall

Chagall on Dorm Room Walls

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Touchy Subject

What inspires French perfume nose Celiné Ellena? "Just looking at people and how they live, hearing what they are talking about, seeing what kind of clothes they are wearing," she says.

FOR HIRE: Perfume Nose

A third-generation fragrance expert tells us how to smell a winner

The Somerset House Conference, by an unknown artist

Pride of the Realm

An extraordinary collection of pictures has traveled from the United Kingdom’s national portrait gallery to ours

Michael Dell may have assembled this Turbo PC.

Baby Dell

A proto PC harkens back to the birth of an industry

"Where's the help?" Cynthia Scott demanded of photographer Michael Ainsworth after three days stranded on an overpass.

A Horrible Blessing

“How am I going to save my grandbabies?” she asked after the hurricane struck, two years ago this month

A Tranquil Oasis in the Big Apple

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Zaha Hadid’s Splendor in the Grass

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The Artist’s Lifestyle

Saarinen working with a model of the arch in 1957

A Humble Vote for the Eighth Wonder of the World

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The Fairest of Them All

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The Celebrated Dabbler

At an "Antiques Roadshow" taping in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 2006, Nan Chisholm appraises a landscape of Glacier Park by the American artist, John Fery. The estimated value: $15,000-$20,000.

FOR HIRE: Fine Art Appraiser

Former Sotheby’s paintings appraiser Nan Chisholm evaluates her work

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