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Victor L. Stateler Cedar Rapids Victor L. Stateler, 88, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, took the hand of his Lord and …

Jules Pelta Feldman on the art of Charles Simonds

IF YOU HAVE EVER taken the stairs at what used to be the Whitney Museum of American Art—Marcel Breuer’s Brutalist masterpiece on New York’s Upper East Side—you have almost certainly encountered the work of Charles Simonds, though you may not have realized it. One of only two pieces in the Whitney’s collection that did not head downtown when the institution moved to the Meatpacking District in 2015 (the other being Nicole Eisenman’s Exploding Whitney Mural, 1995), Simonds’s permanent installation huddles unobtrusively above the stairwell’s only window. It is a miniature village,...

Allan A. Ryan, who died Jan. 26 at 77, ran the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, a unit designated to find and expel anyone in the United States who had assisted the Nazis.

THETFORD — When Ella Starr-Farrell brought home a pair of rabbits, her mother Sue Farrell was initially apprehensive. Then, she built them a garden.“When I brought two rabbits home, she complained that they would pee and poop everywhere but she still...