Excerpts from a new book on the esteemed New York jeweler and his inspirations.
Southern photography at Atlanta’s High Museum
The first major survey of southern photography in more than twenty-five years.
Eye of the Beholder
In early eighteenth-century Italy, Giacomo Ceruti’s sensitive portraits of the down-and-out turned artistic orthodoxy on its head.
Endnotes: Making Choices
Brooke Wyatt explains how the exhibition, Material Witness: Folk and Self-Taught Artists at Work, explores a common question in art.
Museum visit: Second Sight
The Intuit Museum embodies Chicago’s longstanding appreciation for self-taught and outsider art.
Making Faces
Federal American Vernacular Portraits, 1790s to 1840s.
Field notes: Blind Spots
An exploration into the conversations that folk art, and antiques in general, can inspire.
A Blueprint for Early America
On Owen Biddle’s 1806 book, The Young Carpenter’s Assistant.
From a Chain Gang to Art Museums
Overcoming extraordinary adversity, self-taught artist Winfred Rembert preserved his fraught past in words and in startling images made of tooled and painted leather.
Facets and settings: Brooches as Books, Necklaces as Novellas
The narrative art jewelry of Barbara Paganin.