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Curator Leslie B. Grigsby describes the wineglass that stole her heart.

One of my earliest memories of church must be quite common. It involves lighting little candles with a wooden stick and then plunging the stil...

And if a book changes your heart for the better, or fires up your imagination regarding the future, you’ve found another mentor.

Monkey Trick, by David Teniers the Younger, c. 1670. Wikimedia Commons, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. A dance of “glorious and strange beauty” took place in a wintry garden in the south of England on January 6, 1614. Funded and planned by the philosopher Francis Bacon, the performance of what came to be called the Masque of Flowers was an elaborate wedding present for two young nobles. But it was also a dramatization of a new habit that had already begun to change the world. On that wi...