While withholding its authentic treasures for serious seekers, New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment, makes nostalgia bordering on kitsch easily available. Fortunately, when we embarked on our own West by Southwest migration in this issue we had the benefit of some clear-eyed guidance from Laura Beach, who comes from Santa Fe, and Frederick Turner, who has lived there for thirty …
History in towns: Another Las Vegas, this one in New Mexico
July 2009 | How much history lies half-buried beneath the surface of the America we have made? From the first there was a ferocious haste to our patterns of acquisition and settlement, as if the dead past of the Old World we had left behind might catch up with us if we did not instantly shape and then ceaselessly reshape …
An Arts and Crafts Arcadia
Whether you know him as an artist, designer, printer, and key figure of the British arts and crafts movement; or as poet, novelist, translator of ancient Icelandic sagas; or as social critic, political activist, and pioneering preservationist, William Morris is one of the most enduring figures of Victorian England…
Venice: Through a Glass, and Darkly
An art exhibition in DC explores the desuetude and crystalline rebirth of Venice in the late nineteenth century
The Struggle is joined at the Peabody Essex
Jacob Lawrence’s historical narrative series Struggle: From the History of the American People—painted between 1954 and 1956 and depicting scenes from the early decades of the republic—will be on view at the Peabody Essex Museum.
Two Gems of Charm City
The Walters and the Baltimore Museum of Art form a powerful cultural tandem
Curious Objects: Glass Act—John Stuart Gordon and the Vitreous Curiosities of Yale
Ben Miller examines a piece of trinitite—glass formed in the 1945 Trinity nuclear test—and a stained-glass window formerly installed in Yale’s Hopper College, both featured in John Stuart Gordon’s new book “American Glass.”
Events Calendar
EuropeUnited KingdomLONDON Benjamin Franklin House Georgian Gems, through July 3st AlabamaBirmingham Museum of Art: Silver & Ceremony: British and American Decorative Arts from the Collection Through September 13, 2026 American Art Galleries Reinstallation Ongoing, featuring paintings, sculpture, furniture, and decorative arts from the colonial period through the early 20th century Asian Art Collection Highlights Ongoing, featuring Chinese ceramics, Japanese screens, Korean ceramics, …
Homer’s odyssey
An exhibition at the Worcester Art Museum examines Winslow Homer’s puzzling, productive mid-career sojourn in Britain.
A William Henry Rinehart Leander comes to the surface
William Henry Rinehart was among the considerable group of American artists—both sculptors and painters—who took up residence in Italy, perhaps initially for additional training and exposure to the world of classical antiquity, but ultimately because it was the ideal place to get commissions from both American and European tourists.
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