Walk into a gallery of 17th- or 18th-century French paintings and prepare to be blinded by the gilding that encircles each work like an overwrought halo.

Two days before New Year’s Day, the Golden Sunrise fancy club set up a roadblock on Greenwich Street in South Philadelphia, to have the block to itself. The Mummer club has a few new performers — some ...

Wall Street has found a new gold rush—packaging even the most sophisticated products as exchange-traded funds. But that complexity sometimes delivers a poor return compared with the plain ...

Dubai’s giant frame of many names has launched after almost 10 years in the making, with the enormous golden rectangle opening its doors on January 1.