They spar and smile. They come together and drift apart. They conceal and reveal — two halves forever bound. Their identities shift and transform based on their creator, an artist exploring her ...

I inherited this bowl from my grandmother. It is at least 70 years old. The symbol on the bottom is two crossed swords with a crown between them at the top and there is a R on the left side. I would ...

Bethel artist Nina Buxenbaum discovered her creative wellspring when she was just a child of 6 or 7, too young and far too innocent to grasp its significance. Exploring a great aunt’s house in Aurora, ...

Q. I am interested in any information you can give me on this reversible cloth doll. –Laura K. Saveedra, Albuquerque, N.M. A. These reversible dolls also are known as topsy-turvy or flip dolls. They ...

Host Jane Clayson speaks with Dominque Jean-Louis, co-curator of the exhibit "Black Dolls" at the New York Historical Society in New York City. A doll in a feedsack dress, 1900 to 1925. (Ellen ...