Editor s note: This is the second in a series of articles on Ernest Ryland Fletcher and his influence on the industry. Paul Wood s column appears monthly on these pages. By PAUL WOOD In 1902, Ernest ...

Awatercolorist stationed with her easel on the banks of a river. A potter intently focused on the wheel, hands immersed in cool wet clay. An oil painter positioning his still-life items at just the ...

Tucked away inside Szobrasz Studio in Taylorsville, a self-taught artist — and now something of a YouTube star — coaxes works of art from natural materials. Using wood, horn, fossil ivories, bone and ...

At Aswan’s quarry, we test the dolerite ball theory where Egypt’s largest obelisk lies unfinished. Could this be how ancient engineers shaped granite?

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. — Of all the Confederate monuments under fire, few are more figuratively weighted — and literally fixed — than the 1,700-foot-high outcropping of granite outside Atlanta with ...