Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During the roaring ’20s, glass plates were a must for tablescapes. Today, it’s more common to see ceramic or stoneware dinnerware, ...

Strange glass comprises the walls of a small greenhouse inside the dimly lit Brown Wing of Wilmington's Cameron Art Museum. There's a bin of flashlights there, and as viewers work their way around the ...

Five years ago, Meryl Urdang began painting on silk and was able to give up her work as a business consultant in health care. But to earn a living, she had to make her art more accessible, so she ...

A Brooklyn photographer has started a series shooting old industrial buildings around Gowanus using a method as old as many of the nabe’s manufacturing structures — the ancient art of dry glass plates ...

Film certainly isn’t dead, but what about its predecessor? One Kickstarter campaign is working to revive glass-plate photography by making the medium commercially available. Galaxy Photography, a ...

History can be elusive. It can be trapped inside a box of letters, buried in a book, or sealed in the memory of a senior citizen. "[And sometimes] opportunities to preserve history are hiding in plain ...