Kathleen Murphy Skolnik is an art and architecture historian, based at Roosevelt University in Chicago. She is the co-author ...

Plus, the Omni William Penn Hotel's Urban Room is an art deco masterpiece with gilt-trimmed black Carrara glass walls and 15 murals designed by Ziegfeld Follies set designer James Urban.

Despite the mural being a well-loved staple of the community ... eyed appraiser — who immediately recognized the familiar Art Deco style and nods to the 1939 World’s Fair.

His journeys would lead him to India, and leave behind a unique legacy of rare murals that reimagined Indian mythology. Hosted by Art Deco Mumbai, writer-podcaster Kamayani Sharma’s talk today on ...