Editor’s letter, July 2009

Editorial Staff

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 …

An Arts and Crafts Arcadia

Barrymore Laurence SchererArt

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…

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, …