An important new exhibition traces the life and work of Thomas W. Commeraw, free Black potter of early New York.
The Finest Piece of Walnut Furniture of its Type
An excerpt from the new book English Furniture 1680–1760, The Percival D. Griffiths Collection examines the famed Dickinson desk and bookcase.
Object Lesson: Emotion on the Auction Block
When Stair Galleries, an auction house in the small upstate New York city of Hudson, released its catalogue for the sale of famed author Joan Didion’s personal effects, there was one item that immediately caught our eye…
A Venetian Master Reconsidered
Few painters have experienced as great a fluctuation in their posthumous fortunes as Vittore Carpaccio, the subject of a current exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC…
Current and coming: Wild Things in Columbus, Ohio
In the dozen children’s books he wrote and illustrated—chief among them his best-known and most enduring, Where the Wild Things Are—Maurice Sendak displayed uncommonly deep insight into the youthful psyche…
An Arts and Crafts Arcadia
Whether you know him as an artist, designer, printer, and key figure of the British arts and crafts movement; or as poet, novelist, translator of ancient Icelandic sagas; or as social critic, political activist, and pioneering preservationist, William Morris is one of the most enduring figures of Victorian England…
John Craxton’s Sensuous Odyssey
John Craxton was one of those eccentric British modernists, like his friends and near contemporaries Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland, John Piper, Ivon Hitchens, and Keith Vaughan…
Art Deco in Jamaica
Not long after art deco design received an international showcase at the famed Paris universal exposition of 1925, inspired responses to the new style emerged in virtually every field of the applied and visual arts…
Current and Coming: Hopper’s New York at the Whitney
Edward Hopper has a strong claim to being the Whitney Museum of American Art’s favorite artist: an institution within the institution.
Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat
Alfred Maurer was at the forefront of aesthetic developments throughout his prodigious thirty-five-year career.