THE MAGAZINE
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018
Editor’s letter
Gregory Cerio
Critical thinking / Difficult issues
A brave exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
Glenn Adamson
Current and coming
Rebel women at the Museum of the City of New York, Propaganda postcards at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Splendid ceramics at the Frick Collection, and more
Museum visit
Hearts and crafts: An exhibition of global devotional offerings at the Bard Graduate Center
Barrymore Laurence Scherer
Events
Katherine Lanza
Endnotes
Passing the mantels
Eleanor H. Gustafson
Features
Artist of the Land of Enchantment
This year, New Mexico celebrates the centenary of the arrival of Gustave Baumann, the master printmaker who captured the state’s magic—from its deserts to its deep forests
Susan Morgan
Susan Morgan
Eda Lord Dixon rediscovered
Shedding new light on a creative force in the American arts and crafts movement
Medill Higgins Harvey and Lori Zabar
Medill Higgins Harvey and Lori Zabar
Guided by voices
An exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum examines the career of the pioneering abstractionist Hilma af Klint, who sought to channel unseen worlds through her art
Anne Wheeler
Anne Wheeler
Armenia gets its due
The Metropolitan Museum of Art shines a spotlight on the impressive
cultural oeuvre of an overlooked civilization
James Gardner
James Gardner
Time in a bottle
The glass collections at Yale University—explored in a new book—reflect the broad sweep of American history, in vitreous form
John Stuart Gordon
John Stuart Gordon
Photographic development
An exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art examines the career of Doris Ulmann, from New York portrait studio to the byways of Appalachia
Sarah Kate Gillespie
Sarah Kate Gillespie
Living with Antiques
Rokeby: The past is present: In an excerpt from his new book, Life Along the Hudson, Pieter Estersohn examines the rich legacy of one of America’s great houses
Pieter Estersohn
Pieter Estersohn