Yolŋu bark paintings at the Asia Society.
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.
Portrait Painter, Physician, and Lover
The Life of Samuel Broadbent, 1759–1828.
Object lesson: Bringing Stained Glass Up Close
The multi-dimensionality of mosaic glasswork.
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.
New light: Jane Freedom’s Sampler
Girlhood needlework, local tradition, and personal identity.
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.