Forbes’ Bleak House: Family Sells Victoriana

The Victorian artworks found on Forbes@Christies.com are certainly beautiful to behold, but there’s something even more beguiling about their titles. Arrange them in a certain order and you can create a story, even if the images don’t exactly lend themselves to the telling. For instance, you could begin with Kate Hayllar’s A Thing of Beauty Read More

Off The Record

As Tom Friedman told it in his Feb. 17 New York Times Op-Ed column, he and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, were in the middle of a long, off-the-record conversation over dinner when the de facto leader of the wealthiest Arab nation mentioned that he agreed with Mr. Friedman’s Read More