The big names had a very tough 2024 – but the new year looks a lot brighter for those auction houses which specialise in smaller sales. Aso O. Tavitian grew up poor — but at age 64 he began an ...

When it finally opened, 50 years ago this month, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge—honoring the 16th-century Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, though not to the extent of spelling his name ...