THE MAGAZINE
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2017
COVER: Portrait of Roger Dutilleul by Amedeo Modigliani, 1919. Collection of Bruce and Robbi Toll.
Editor’s letter
Critical thinking / Difficult issues
Seeking Asylum
Glenn Adamson
Current and coming
On books
James Gardner
Museum Acquisition
The Met snares a splended piece of southern stoneware
Sarah Archer
New Light
A William Henry Rinehart Leander comes to the surface
Stuart P. Feld
Events
Katherine Lanza
Endnotes
Eleanor H. Gustafson
Features
Tokens of friendship,
tools of diplomacy
Presentation medals in the Age of Exploration
Robert McCracken Peck
Robert McCracken Peck
Why the long face
The Jewish Museum explores Modigliani's lonely sense of self
David Ebony
David Ebony
Polished Performances
Classic and contemporary silver in dialogue at the Museum of the City of New York
Marisa Bartolucci
Marisa Bartolucci
“Miss Dimock is not orthodox at all”
The life and career of Edith Dimock Glackens
Avis Berman
Avis Berman
Thomas Jefferson’s Letter Rack
David Esterly carves our past
Elizabeth Pochoda
Elizabeth Pochoda
“Pleasure in the beautiful ‘thing as such'”
Fashion and the Wiener Werkstätte
Janis Staggs
Janis Staggs
A New World Old Master
The Met rescues a seventeenth-century Mexican artist from obscurity
James Gardner
James Gardner
Treasures beyond gold
A new exhibition examines the luxury arts of the ancient Americas
Joanne Pillsbury
Joanne Pillsbury