Geraldine Fabrikant

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.”

A Washington stairway that was the site of a pivotal scene from the 1973 film will become an official city landmark.

The endowment’s new chief, N.P. Narvekar, said the university’s $37.1 billion fund had problems that would “require time to overcome.”

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

A professor’s 30-year dream of assembling a complete set of “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji,” the pinnacle of the artist’s career, leads to an auction.