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Ayme Swartz is an archaeologist who focuses on “giving a voice to the voiceless.”

Merchants and Masterpieces introduces the fascinating collectors whose vision and generosity helped build The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Narrator Philippe de Montebello, former director of The Metropolitan Museum, tells the stories of J. Pierpont Morgan, Benjamin Altman and Robert Lehman - passionate collectors in pursuit of magnificent works of art. Personal interviews reveal the stories of other notable collectors, including David Rockefeller, who reminisces about his boyhood enchantment with his father's Unicorn tapestries; J. Watson Webb, Jr. recalls his grandmother Louisine Havemeye...

Along with the rest of downtown, Willis Tower has experienced ups and downs, including fears raised by the terrorist attacks of 2001 and the Great Recession

Sixteenth century German painter Hans Memling became the most sought-after portrait painter in Bruges, Flanders and his work influenced Italian artists too.

In Wes Anderson’s new film, Adrien Brody plays a crooked art-dealer inspired by the infamous Joseph Duveen, whose dirty tricks made him rich