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ART OF AN ERA

A January sale at Swann Galleries showcases artists of the WPA

Cultivating Home

A wide variety of fine antiques, art and garden design are showcased in Nashville

COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO 2025 AUCTIONS

While Christie's 2022 sale Visionary: G. Paul Allen Collection, which made $1.6 billion, still reigns supreme as the most lucrative single-owner auction of all time, 2024 had exciting moments of its own.

VERSUS

An exhibition at Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden juxtaposes concepts of Modernism and modernity

GOING WITH YOUR GUT

HOW DO MICROBES AFFECT OUR HEALTH? LET'S COUNT THE WAYS...

Putting the Pieces Together

Americans needed to begin to put the past behind them, come together, and plan for the future in the spring of 1865. But Abraham Lincoln, the man best equipped to lead them and who had hoped to restore the country as smoothly and peacefully as possible, had been assassinated.

A Helping Hand

The spring season is hard in any agricultural society. Plants and animals are too small to eat.

Getting Started

Beginning in April 1861, two armies— both made up of American soldiers—began fighting each other in the Civil War.

PEACE TALKS

The fall of Fort Fisher made clear that the Confederacy’s days were numbered. Southerners were tired and hungry.

LAST SHOTS

The last Confederate forces in the Civil War didn’t surrender in the spring of 1865 or on a battlefield.

If everything the human brain does is basically sets of electrical impulses, how exactly does that translate into a state of mind?

You're not the only one asking this question. Every neuroscientist in the world is wondering the exact same thing, says Zach Mainen

A 12-Year-Old Girl's Election Sticker Is a Winner

VOTING IS A FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOM FOR AMERICANS, A MEANS OF DOING ONE'S CIVIC DUTY AND A WAY AN INDIVIDUAL CAN EXPRESS THEIR VOICE. In 1971, the United States lowered its voting age to 18. But that doesn't mean kids and teens under 18 can't participate in elections in various ways.

EARTH'S TINIEST BUILDERS

THE HIDDEN WORLD OF MICROBES IN THE EARTH'S CRUST

MUMMIES SPEAK

ABOUT MICROBES, MIGRATION, AND MORE

Luxury, Rarity, Exclusivity

The Palm Beach Show stuns West Palm Beach, Florida, with remarkable displays of fine art, antiques and jewelry

BUG Detective

A burglar sneaks into a house on a quiet street in New York City. He walks through the house, touching countertops and door handles. Finally, he steals a single card from a full deck. Then he leaves.

RECASTING THE PAST

The Smithsonian explores how American sculpture has shaped the ways generations visualize and conceptualize

Preserving a Legacy

The 70th anniversary of the Washington Winter Show is set for January 10 to 12 in Washington, D.C.

A World of Culture

The Winter Show prepares for its 71st edition, featuring high caliber fine art, antiques and design

Tangible Light

The Mattatuck Museum showcases works of American Tonalism soon to become part of the institution's collection

The Spin Doctor checks out the Kuzma Safir 9, a superarm from Slovenia.

The British audio scene from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s was pretty strange. Audio as a hobby was a big deal, with widespread appeal to a much younger crowd than today. Audiophiles were guided by a flurry of what my friends called \"hi-fi pornos,\" audio magazines that filled the racks at the newsagents.

Wilson Audio Specialties The WATT/Puppy

Since the original WATT/Puppy concept kicked off in the late 1980s,' there has been a 40-year evolution leading to the latest version reviewed here.

Soulution 727

AImost 14 years have passed since a review of a Soulution product appeared in the pages of Stereophile.\"

T+A R 2500 R STREAMING RECEIVER PHONO MODULE

In my review of the T+A R 2500 R receiver (August 2024 issue), I covered many of its features and took as deep a dive as time and column inches allowed.

Audia Flight FLS10

The dogma of separates has long reigned supreme among audiophiles: If you're serious about sound quality, you're supposed to need a dedicated preamp and power amp.

Alex goes to Japan

Arriving in Japan from the United States is like being turned upside down. This condition lasts for much of the first week. When I visited in November, the time difference between Tokyo and New York was 14 hours. \"The floating world\" is a term for the pleasure-addled urban culture of Edo-period Japan, but it's also an apt description for the twilit and not-entirely-unpleasant weirdness of first arriving in Tokyo. Everything seems slightly unreal.

Michael Des Barres and the Art of Aural Obsession

Listening to music inspires us to take action. Upon hearing an I.E.-Instant Earworm-we must then determine the best way we can go about listening to it again (and again) at our convenience.

PLANET OF SOUND

BLACK FRANCIS ON HARNESSING THAT MAGIC PIXIES DUST

MoFi Electronics MasterDeck

Get two mouthy jazz drummers in a room and watch the sparks fly. Talented turntable designer Allen Perkins, the brain behind Spiral Groove,2 Immedia's RPM turntables,³ and various SOTA models, is first and foremost a jazz drummer.

Totem Acoustic Element Fire V2

Totem Acoustic was founded in 1987, in Montreal, Canada, by a former high school math teacher named Vince Bruzzese. The company's first product, the Model 1 loudspeaker,' impressed me so much I bought a pair.