A nearly 10-carat blue diamond was sold at an auction in Switzerland on Tuesday for 20.5 million Swiss francs ($26.6 million). The diamond, weighing 9.51 carats, is named “Mellon Blue” after the late ...

GENEVA - A vivid blue diamond weighing 9.51 carats and previously belonging to Rachel “Bunny” Mellon, the aristocratic philanthropist and a close friend of the late US first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, ...

The Pittsburgh Playhouse Plus Scholarship Fund was established at The Pittsburgh Foundation to provide to students whose major is Theatre Arts and have completed their first year of study at Carnegie ...

GENEVA, Switzerland — The Mellon Blue, a 9.51-carat fancy vivid blue diamond formerly owned by the US art collector Bunny Mellon, sold for $25.6 million (P1.5 billion) at auction on Tuesday. The ...

The 9.51-carat “Mellon Blue” diamond sold for $25.5 million at Christie’s Geneva Magnificent Jewels auction, held Tuesday at the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues. The fancy vivid blue pear-shaped ...

There was no shortage of curiosity and surprise on Friday for the world premiere of Billy Corgan’s “A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness” at Lyric Opera. Having been kept for months a ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. It was early 1996, and a young alternative band known as the Smashing Pumpkins was embarking on a worldwide tour ...

New York composer and conductor James Lowe worked closely with Smashing Pumpkins front man Billy Corgan to adapt the 30-year-old album for a show that’s more Mozart than rock. So perhaps it comes as ...

A 9.51-carat blue stone that once belonged to the heiress Bunny Mellon sold for $7 million less than at its last auction, a sign of profound shifts in the diamond industry. By Ashley Ahn A 9.51-carat ...

The opening night of The Smashing Pumpkins’ operatic reimagining of ‘Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness’ has taken place – watch footage below. READ MORE: Billy Corgan on his new podcast ‘The ...

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