Professional Mourners Perform at Park Avenue Armory, Jewelry Auctions’ Bright Future Taryn Simon has recruited people from around the world to perform traditional songs and rituals meant to help the dead cross over to the afterlife. By Alanna Martinez
A Rare Glimpse Into American Photography’s Quirky History Yale University will make public the archives of Famous Photographers School, where Norman Rockwell was on faculty. By Daniel Grant
Monumental—and Controversial—’Kissing Sailor’ Sculpture Comes to Times Square The statue depicts the lip-locked couple from a very famous LIFE Magazine photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt on April 14,1945, aka V-J Day, as news spread through New York City that World War II had ended. By Alanna Martinez