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In “Ghosts,” a collection of uncanny tales by Edith Wharton, terror lurks in the gap between knowing and unknowing.

Salon 94 Has Opened a Strikingly Beautiful New Headquarters in an Upper East Side Mansion—See Photos of the Historic Space Here The gallery is opening with two shows, from Niki de Saint Phalle and Derrick Adams. Le Peril Jaune. Photo by Genevieve Hanson. Image courtesy Salon 94. Just in time for the gradual reopening—we hope—of New York City’s art scene this spring comes a new addition to the gallery fray. Salon 94 has opened a new headquarters in an historic, landmarked mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, just steps away from the Guggenheim and the Metropolitan Museum of Art o...

Undine Spragg’s Life in Objects Undine Spragg’s Life in Objects Beauty, charm and luck all factor into the social ascent of Edith Wharton’s ambitious protagonist — but money, crucially, matters the most. Mrs. Sidney Smith, P. A. Clark, Mrs. James T. Burden, Stanford White, James Henry Smith, Norman Whitehouse, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish and Sidney Smith (seated) at the 1905 James Hazen Hyde costume ball.Credit...Byron Company/The Museum of the City of New York/Art Resource, NY By Samuel Rutter This article is part of T’s to R.S.V.P. to a virtual conversation, led by Clair...

Rhode Island Rescues Photograph by Gavin Ashworth. All photographs courtesy of the Preservation Society of Newport County, Newport, Rhode Island. The story of the Preservation Society begins with the mission to rescue Hunter House (Fig. 1) and the question put to financier George Henry Warren Jr. after its purchase by his wife, Katherine Warren: “Well, you’ve got this house, now what are you going to do with it?” In 1945, Newport stone carver John Howard Benson became alarmed that Hunter House—a rare surviving waterfront property with deep ties to Newport’s history—might be irretr...