The nonprofit that manages the late heiress and philanthropist Doris Duke’s central New Jersey estate plans to raze her mansion on the site, a proposal that has raised hackles among local ...

“Doris Duke was perfectly comfortable living with old masters and American decorative arts and furnishings, which she grew up with and had in her other homes,” says Shangri La’s executive director, ...

Shangri La’s garden was designed based on the Mughal dynasty’s gardens. Photo Credit: Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design One of the richest heiresses in the world, Doris Duke, daughter ...

The Newport Restoration Foundation recently made one of the city’s most prominent house museums, Rough Point, free for all Newport County residents, the most recent move in a yearlong effort by the ...

Duke, who died in 1993 at age 80, spent nearly 60 years filling her secluded Hawaiian home with more than 3,500 art objects, almost all from the Muslim world: ceramics, textiles, carved wood and stone ...