In the online sales, the top lot was an Apple Lisa 1 Microcomputer, which achieved an impressive $882,000, 44 times its low estimate, which was sold in Firsts: The History of Computing. Christie’s and ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Albert C. Barnes, founder of the Barnes Foundation, was too large a character to be restrained by mortality. He and his collection have been the subject of a documentary and books ...

This is called an Einstein Ring, named after scientist Albert Einstein, who predicted this effect in his Theory of Relativity. For an Einstein Ring to appear, both the faraway galaxy and the one in ...

“The Maverick’s Museum” is a new biography of the life of Albert Barnes, the pioneering Philadelphia collector of modern art, by New York art critic Blake Gopnik. (His 2020 biography of Andy ...