A current exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum examines the many meanings of the edible in art.
Hysterical Re-enactors
The Getty Museum has decided to publish a book Off the Walls to be released in the US on September 22.
Curious Objects: Surrendering the Colors–An American Flag Collection Goes to Auction
The first American flag Peter Keim collected was a thirteen-star specimen that he found poking out of a paper bag at a farm sale. Not even bothering to take a closer look, he bought the lot on a lark for $40.
Never done
Depictions of women at work from the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition on American labor
Dated English delftware and slipware in the Longridge Collection
By Leslie B. Grigsby. Originally published in June 1999. The Longridge Collection of ceramics is English pottery Valhalla. Nestled in a New England house with rare English and Continental treen, medieval ivory and metalwork, and early furniture and carvings, this extraordinary collection of ceramics can be divided into two main groups: about 440 pieces of tinglazed earthenware (delftware) and 100 …