Time spent sewn up in a whale wasn’t the only curious historical treatment for rheumatism. Elixirs of dubious origin promised ...
In 1899, theater critic Edward McKay entered a London flower shop to buy some roses. The store was completely sold out. “Well, you see,” the clerk explained. “It’s Miss Edna May’s birthday and all our ...
Growing up, I recall our mom Peggy kept a busy schedule balancing running a household, raising five kids and an active social ...
Blanche Hoschedé-Monet has barely been acknowledged in art history. But not only did she help her stepfather Claude, she ...
Juliet Jacques observes the pros and cons of archives, who’s represented in them and how past prejudices shaped ...
The writer discusses her first musical, being ‘a particularly bad extra’ and how Ireland, New York, Paris and Canada have ...
Even those newspapers which are printed only in London, therefore, can be laid on the breakfast ... They were said to have been "Americanized" partly because in the decade following 1890 a number of ...
This fall, a global regulatory body could move to decriminalize the demonized plant for the first time in more than 60 years, ...
Van Gogh’s Poppies and Daisies (June 1890), sold for $62m at Sotheby’s ... It went to Hugo Nathan, of the London art advisors Beaumont Nathan, for an unnamed private client.
BlackRock's recently posted CEO Larry Fink’s 2025 Annual Chairman’s Letter to Investors. Click here to read the full fund ...