At age 45, Lin-Manuel Miranda already has accomplished enough to receive a lifetime achievement honor.

Works by artists including Cézanne, Seurat, and van Gogh sold for a record-breaking $1.5 billion during the first part of Christie’s two-day auction of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul G.

Some 150 artworks from the collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul G.

Joni Mitchell has received honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the century old institution where general inductees have ranged from Henry James and Georgia O’Keeffe to Sonny Rollins and Jasper Johns.