On the Jordan Playboy roadster: A car for the liberated woman of the Jazz Age.
Gotham: Crucible of American Art
How New York City became the center of the US art world.
Facets and settings: Brilliant-cut Boston
All about the jewelry collection of the Museum of Fine Arts and its curator.
“Gracious and artful devices for the adornment of life”
An excerpt from the new book English Needlework, 1600–1740, The Percival D. Griffiths Collection charts the origins of the twentieth-century reappraisal of the embroiderer’s art.
Garden Varieties
A forthcoming exhibition charts the affinities between paintings of the French countryside by the impressionist Claude Monet and the abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell.
Object lesson: Everyday Silver and the Triumph of Queen Anne
An exploration of Queen Anne tableware as everyday silver.
The Many Mysteries of Vermeer
The most intriguing and inscrutable of the Dutch Old Masters is the subject of a can’t-miss exhibition in Amsterdam.
On view: Glenn Adamson’s Mirror Mirror at Chatsworth
Art and design of today visit a historic British manor house.
Endnotes: The Very Model of an English Collector
Percival D. Griffiths was passionate about collecting English furniture and needlework, forming one of the most important such private collections of its kind ever at Sandridgebury, his country house in Hertfordshire, England…
Field notes: Facing Unpleasant Facts
On John James Audubon (1785–1851) and John Muir (1838–1914), both of whom have come in for an overdue reckoning…