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Ready to Wear

by Sarah Davis

One of the most discerning collectors of costume jewelry is fashion designer Norma Kamali, who has been snapping up lux and creative examples from around the world since the 1960s.
A String of Pearls in a Shoebox

by Marie Penny

In a radiantly decorated and appointed turn-of-the-century tea house on a Long Island estate, the vision of American artist and Elsie de Wolfe protégé Everett Shinn stands revealed.
Mistress of Her Domain

by Alexandra Frantischek Rodriguez-Jack

As a female-coded area, the estrado provided women a degree of autonomy and self-expression not generally possible in Continental or colonial society of the time.

Exhibitions: Tales from the Other Side - For the unbeliever, the skeptic, the misanthrope, few movements could elicit greater disdain than the spiritualism that arose in the late 1840s and swept through American society into the 1920s.

Exhibitions: Hold the World in Your Hands - That’s the idea behind a new exhibition at Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: John Smart: Virtuoso in Miniature, on view to January 4, 2026.

Exhibitions: Due North at the Met - A show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates (if a year late) the 250th anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich in 1774.

Swing City - The keen eye and advocacy of New York collector and retailer Kathryn Hausman have served to breathe new life into the arts of the Jazz Age, a century on.

American Treasures - The women of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America have been preserving history since 1891.

Ready to Wear - One of the most discerning collectors of costume jewelry is fashion designer Norma Kamali, who has been snapping up lux and creative examples from around the world since the 1960s.

Endnotes: A New Day for Traditional Craft - We introduce a curator who will spotlight Indigenous ceramics at the Gardiner Museum.

Exhibitions: Art on the Go - The collection that makes up Puerto Rico’s Museo de Arte de Ponce was assembled by Luis A. Ferré, one of the most interesting men of his age.

Books: Seine Kid - Like a decadent lady cake crafted by the finest chef a Gilded Age heiress could hire, the artwork of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artist Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855–1919) exudes a rich taste.

Exhibitions: Discovering Caillebotte - When it comes to the likes of Monet, Manet, and Renoir, it seems there’s little left to unearth beneath the impressionist sun. But when it comes to Gustave Caillebotte, their less colorful colleague, tales remain to be told.

Objects: Masters of Disguise - Made for a simple purpose—to store tea securely—antique wooden caddies come in a variety of ingenious forms, some made to confound would-be thieves, others to amaze.

An American Chorus - Visitors who stop by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American Wing will be greeted not only by the exciting, challenging newness of the reinstallation—undertaken to mark the Wing’s hundredth anniversary—but given the opportunity to look beyond surfaces, with the help of two many-voiced audio guides that unravel the foundational myths of American art history object by object.