Millions flocked to the 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park to marvel at the world’s treasures — from priceless diamonds to ...

The Crystal Palace was a huge exhibition building constructed in London's Hyde Park between 1850 and 1851. It hosted the Great Exhibition of 1851 - an event showcasing sculptures, machinery ...

We celebrate and bemoan the building projects of the Millennium. Which were the joys, and which were the duds?

When you think of a vending machine, things like snacks, sodas, or even pharmaceutical supplies may come to mind. But you ...

and the Crystal Palace, built for London’s Great Exhibition in 1851. Conservatories likewise became more numerous in 19th-century America; many of these, like Dickinson’s, were connected to ...

Architect Nicholas Grimshaw's ingenious telescopic glass and steel superstructure — inspired by Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace of 1851 — was a suitably contemporary monument to the new railway ...

Lindsay Shelton In terms of core activities, organising exhibitions from overseas is hardly something you’d expect the ...

Although Emily Dickinson is now considered one of America’s greatest poets, during her lifetime she was better known for her ...

On January 21, the Royal Apartments at Palazzo Pitti will reopen after a five-year closure for restoration purposes.

Visitors to the Universal Exposition in London in 1851 witnessed not only a phantasmagoria of commodity culture, nor merely the architectural wonder of Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace: they felt a ...