Posters calling for federal farm benefits. A warning that “Inflation means Depression.” ⬬
Exhibitions: Art Forms of Nature
In Jan van Kessel’s Noah’s Family Assembling Animals before the Ark, the antediluvian world is presented as Earth in need of a hyper-taxonomy, rather than the biblical drama of destruction. ⬬
Exhibitions: Marsden Hartley in New Mexico
For someone who proudly called himself the “painter of Maine,” Marsden Hartley certainly strayed far from the part of the world where he was born and raised and where he died. ⬬
Collecting: First Pick
In their own words: Objects of obsession from a group of young collectors at the forefront of a new collecting culture. Nautilus shell lamps by Moritz Hacker ⬬
Collecting: First Pick
In their own words: Objects of obsession from a group of young collectors at the forefront of a new collecting culture. Vintage Gold Dress ⬬
Perspectives: Possessed
Artist Pablo Bronstein on collecting as a form of self-fashioning—baroque, compulsive, occasionally corrosive, but ultimately irresistible. ⬬
Field Notes: Reading The Room
Period rooms have always told stories. The question is—whose? ⬬
Valley Culture
Organized to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Historic Trappe’s Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, Valley Culture: Constructing Identity Along the Great Wagon Road explores the evolution of Pennsylvania German folk art as settlers moved west. ⬬
Exhibitions: Body Language
An exciting new exhibition awaits at Historic Deerfield in Massachusetts.
The Patient Collector
With modest means and fifty-five years of persistence, a Maine state employee built a remarkable collection—and a legacy— one or two objects at a time.