The Shaker Museum in Upstate New York has selected Selldorf Architects to design a permanent home for its collection of artifacts from the Shakers, a utopian community best known today for its ...

Rows of sturdy dining tables sit, empty and gleaming, in a tiny shop on Fruitvale Boulevard. Most are built with wood from trees that were cut down centuries ago and salvaged from historic buildings.

One of the most memorable art-fair exhibits of the past five years didn't feature any gazillion-dollar paintings by Gerhard Richter or Instagram-baiting mirrored blobs by Anish Kapoor. Instead, the ...