THE MAGAZINE
MAY/JUNE 2018
COVER: A c. 1880 mirror-topped dresser by Herter Brothers in the master bedroom of a house in the Hudson valley decorated in the aesthetic movement
style. Photograph by Peter Aaron.
Editor’s letter
Gregory Cerio
Critical thinking / Difficult issues
Too good to be true: Fallout from a fake Civil War commemorative chest
Glenn Adamson
Current and coming
Thomas Chippendale’s tercentenary, Dining by Design, at Winterthur, the Stuart Weitzman shoe collection at the New-York Historical Society, and more
Farther afield
On books
French dressing: the Met explores the visitor experience of Versailles
Barrymore Laurence Scherer
Events
Katherine Lanza
Endnotes
Eleanor H. Gustafson
Features
Going Wilde
A museum curator creates his own personal period rooms in an aesthetic movement
Shangri-la in the Hudson valley
Barry R. Harwood
Barry R. Harwood
Sunny dispositions
A new exhibition
at the Met examines the glad
spirits of the impressionists and others
en plein air
James Gardner
James Gardner
Here there be dragons
An exhibition
at the Morgan Library explores the
meaning of monsters in medieval
manuscripts
Sherry C. M. Lindquist and Asa Simon Mittman
Sherry C. M. Lindquist and Asa Simon Mittman
Eminent Victorian
One of Britain’s
most beguiling treasures, Wightwick
Manor exemplifies the artful tastes
and inviting comforts of late
nineteenth-century country life
Barrymore Laurence Scherer
Barrymore Laurence Scherer
Breaking new ground
Picturing
Mississippi at the Mississippi Museum
of Art in Jackson and a related exhibition
at Tougaloo College are events
in museum history as much as landmarks
in the state’s history
Elizabeth Pochoda
Elizabeth Pochoda