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September 29, 2022

Famed Painting “Woman-Ochre,” Worth $160M, Finally Restored Decades After Theft

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Willem de Kooning’s famed painting “Woman-Ochre,” estimated to be worth around $160 million, has had quite the journey over the years. On the morning after Thanksgiving Day in 1985, the artwork was ripped from its frame at the University of Arizona Museum of Art (UAMA). It remained missing for three decades — finally resurfacing in […]

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Willem de Kooning stands in front of a workbench in his studio in 1982. He wears glasses and a blue shirt. He has white hair. The room is brightly lit.

The World’s First Hammer Museum in Alaska Tracks the Tool’s Storied History

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If you had a hammer, you could hammer in the morning, as the old song goes. But what would you do if you had 10,000 hammers? You’d open a hammer museum, of course. At least, that’s what collector Dave Pahl did in his tiny town of Haines, Alaska.  Small and unassuming — aside from the

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An exterior view of the hammer museum, a small white building with green trim. In front, a huge hammer stands tall on the lawn. In the back, Alaska's rolling hills.
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