4,000-Year-Old Temple Predating Machu Picchu Unearthed in Peru
Archaeologists working in Peru have made a truly remarkable discovery. The remains of an ancient temple and theater that have been dated to 3,500 years older than the famed ancient site of Machu Picchu have been uncovered by a team led by Luis Muro Ynoñán from the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. While Machu Picchu, […]
A Chic Berkshires Hotel Will Host an Invite-Only Art Fair Next Summer
There is a rich tradition of art fairs taking place in hotels. The Armory Show debuted at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York some three decades ago. More recently, New York has seen the Dependent and the Fridge, whose names riffed on Independent and Frieze, respectively. There’s also the Felix Art Fair in Los […]
A Rare U.K. Stamp, Legendary for Its Misprinting, Heads to Auction
Between 1841 and 1879, British authorities issued billions of Penny Red stamps, serving a communication revolution driven by rising literacy rates that saw letter-writing boom. Philatelists are indifferent to the hundreds of thousands of these that have survived. The Plate 77 Penny Red, however, quickens the pulse and, for the deep pocketed and extremely fortunate […]