Field Notes: Heavenly Visions - The legendary sect’s short-lived “gift drawings” of Shaker women are a hypnotic and still puzzling cornucopia of rapturous color and mysterious coding.
Curious Objects: Learning to Love Antique Rugs, with Jan David Winitz - Dealer Jan David Winitz has specialized in oriental rugs for many years, but he never sold the first rug that sparked his passion...
Found in Translation - Despite their diverse origins, modern and folk arts from around the world achieve unity in the former home—now house museum—of an American expat in Mexico.
Museum visit: Going Platinum - The Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe celebrates seventy years on the scene.
Consolation Prizes - An exhibition at Frederic Church’s Olana highlights the nineteenth-century culture of memory and memorial.
On books: The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home - A look into the decorative lives of four bachelors from the early twentieth century.
Current and coming: Penobscot basketry in Rockland - The Farnsworth Art Museum exhibits an indigenous artistic tradition.
Curious Objects: The curious histories behind board games, at the American Folk Art Museum - In today's episode, we learn about a goose-themed board game.
LIVING WITH ANTIQUES
Habitat for Humanity
By Stacy C. Hollander with photography by Ellen McDermott and Bridget Sciales