An airplane part fell from the sky and landed on the front lawn of a home on Long Island, New York. Authorities are looking into how it happened.

Sometimes vacation photos reflect the harsh reality that you failed to give a moment’s thought about how you look before you stepped in front of a camera.

The exhibition "Rome: The Painting of an Empire," at the Scuderie del Quirinale through Jan. 17, offers a panoramic view of unusual broadness and depth of Roman painting.

As sales of Modern and Impressionist art Christie's and Soethby's in New York show, buyers in troubled financial times favor the instant aesthetic hit.

At Fritz, what's old is new again. The winery is buried underground, dug into a remote hillside on the Cloverdale edge of Dry Creek Valley. When it was built in 1979, America's energy crisis had just hit and subterranean architecture was the height of fashion...