Geraldine Fabrikant

Especially on the coasts of the state, the wealthy are increasingly choosing to start their own museums rather than house their collections in someone else’s.

Artbag, the Madison Avenue shop that socialites and celebrities have trusted to restore their chic handbags for 90 years, is closing.

Though the state’s east coast museums have long grabbed headlines, transplants from across the U.S., and their money, are also having an impact on its Gulf Coast.

Where Winslow Homer Went to Fish and Paint  The New York Times

Deeply worried by the surge in episodes of anti-Semitism, Holocaust and Jewish museums are working to use history to combat bigotry.

At Yale, a colleague said, he showed “there was a way to compete hard and well in financial markets, but to have our lives be about something that mattered more.”

After years of lagging performance, practitioners of an old approach to investing are hoping their time is nigh.

While you’ve been binge-watching Netflix and peering anxiously at your sourdough, John Hatleberg has been working on replicas of the Hope Diamond and its earlier incarnations for the Smithsonian.

The auction houses report robust online sales.

Conservators come out of back rooms into public spaces, sharing the once closely held secrets of restoring works of art.

Paula Volent started in art conservation. But at Bowdoin, she has become one of the nation’s most successful financial managers of a college endowment.

A Southern California doyenne gets a bit of a freshening up. (Just don’t call it a face-lift.)

Their shop is the thinking person’s place to go after hitting the jackpot in Las Vegas (or New York).

Ron McCarty spent his career refurbishing and refurnishing the 56-room palazzo owned by John and Mable Ringling, bringing back an array of memorabilia.

Across the country, institutions are mounting exhibitions that connect ancient and modern periods, demonstrating the continuing influence of the art of the past.

The third-largest university endowment in the world was valued at $26.5 billion at the end of August, officials said.

The sturdy performance by the world’s second-largest university endowment last fiscal year affirmed the diversification strategy of its longtime chief, David Swensen.

In the second year of an overhaul by a new investment chief, the world’s largest university endowment trailed returns of 13.5 percent at M.I.T. and 12.9 percent at Penn, for example.

From Coral Gables to Sarasota: orchids, azaleas, bromeliads (and butterflies).

Museums are experimenting with ways to keep visitors coming back, with free admission and exhibits that speak to diverse audiences.