The middle value of all realized prices for an artist's works sold at auction during a given period, providing a clearer representation of typical market values by minimizing the influence of extreme ...

Instead of hands and a dial, the time is revealed through two small jumping hour and minute apertures, located at 12 and 6 o’clock respectively ... and a Westminster chime minute repeater.

The bell tower atop the Customs House resembled Big Ben. Its clock, nicknamed “Big Ching,” struck the Westminster chime on the quarter-hour. Beneath the opulent facade, however, Shanghai was ...

D J Taylor is an underrated novelist. Kept was the best of the glut of Victorian pastiches that came out a few years ago. He sets scenes and evokes place and period in an almost painterly way, and ...