If you are reading this letter, chances are you’ve already caught the collecting bug—or perhaps, like me, you were born ill with it. If that’s you: welcome. You are among friends.
Books: Silver Standard
Beautifully produced and informative, Wiwen Nilsson is the first English-language monograph on the Swedish silversmith, designer, jeweler, and sculptor Karl Edvin Nilsson.
Books: Digging the Modern Garden
“I have great admiration for ways in which landscape architecture can lend understanding of a historic house,” says author Beth Dunlop.
Exhibitions: Frames in Focus
You may think the frame is an afterthought compared to the painting it contains—added by the purchaser to hold the art and attach it to the wall—but historically frames have been designed and made by notable architects, master sculptors, and artist-gilders.
Endnotes: Walk-in Closet of Curiosity
At the Fashion Institute of Technology, designer clothes and accessories evoke the exotic objects coveted by collectors during the Age of Discovery.
Guest Editor’s Letter – Anna Sui
Hear from our March/April guest editor, in her own words.
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.
Exhibitions: Unknown Country
Recently it has seemed as if the only tradition revered in the museum world is the critique of tradition, a cause for score-settling as well as the occasional revelation.
Exhibitions: White Line Moderne
Upon her death in 1956, a portion of the work and personal ephemera of American artist Blanche Lazzell was sent to the Art Museum of West Virginia University (AMWVU) in Morgantown: brightly colored paintings and prints, along with charcoal drawings, personal diaries, and letters to her family and friends.
Publisher’s Letter: November/December 2024
Publisher Don Sparacin welcomes the November/December 2024 issue.