An indoor folly at the Grolier Club hearkens back to the taverns of old New Amsterdam.
History on the Half Shell
All about the renaissance of the landmark nineteenth-century Brooklyn restaurant Gage & Tollner.
Curator’s pick: A Winged Wineglass at Winterthur
Curator Leslie B. Grigsby describes the wineglass that stole her heart.
Food for Thought
A current exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum examines the many meanings of the edible in art.
Current and coming: A freed spirit at the Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art introduces audiences to the life and work of Juan de Pareja, an artist who was an enslaved studio assistant of Diego Velasquez.
New Light: More on Federal Bostonians and Their London Jeweler, Stephen Twycross
A continued study on the work of English jeweler Stephen Twycross.
Endnotes: Home is Where the Heart Is
Eleanor H. Gustafson interviews curator and director William L. Coleman on the inaugural exhibition Andrew Wyeth: Home Places.
Museum visit: Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City
The country’s National Museum Of History has traveled a long, strange road from viceregal citadel to cultural institution.
Field notes: Background Check
“Without Hands”: The Art of Sarah Biffin tells about the life and work of an English painter born without arms or legs.
Living with antiques: The Oddities Couple
In Connecticut, Ryan and Regina Cohn have created a live-in Victorian Gothic cabinet of curiosities.