Above illustration by Cliff Roberts from My First Book of Jazz by Langston Hughes, 1955 Big changes coming soon. Watch this space. ...

Photos by Nick Rossi 860-880 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect. Private, residential apart...

Urbana No.2 (The Archer) [detail] by Richard Diebenkorn, 1953. Oil on canvas. Photo taken at the de Young Museum, June 2013. A Moder...

B.B. King holding a Fender Esquire, Memphis, Tennessee, 1951 REQUIESCAT IN PACE (1925-2015)

Every so often an item pops up on eBay that somehow needs to be preserved. I am not necessarily talking about museum pieces, but rather curi...

The first chart hit version of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's 1938 composition "Spring is Here", as adapted from the Bro...

Elaine Johannsen models a hat design by Mr. John of New York City, 1953 Photo courtesy of The Powerhouse Museum Thanks to Karen Finl...