Artist and artisan Madeline Yale Wynne and the founding of the Deerfield arts and crafts movement.
Personal space: One Artist’s Notes on Visiting an Art Fair
Laurene Krasny Brown shares her seven notes on attending an art fair.
Narratives in the Needlework
Storytelling through quilts in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum.
Clay, Water, and Spirit
An exhibition of Pueblo pottery seeks to reveal the soul that resides within the art.
Seamless Transition
An excerpt from the book The New Antiquarians takes us into the Maine home of a young clothing designer turned folk art collector and dealer.
Endnotes: Sweet History in Spain
Chocolate is a sugary treat and a historical tool at the Museo de la Xocolata.
Feast for the Eyes
The food paintings of the seventeenth-century Dutch artist Clara Peeters helped bring the still life into maturity as a genre.
Farther afield: Alimentary Athenaeums
A sampler of culinary museums around the world, where food is explored as cultural tradition, as industry, and even as art.
“Beautiful, Useful, and Enduring”
The story of the estimable arts and crafts silver of the Kalo Shop and the principled, indomitable woman at the firm’s helm: Clara Barck Welles.
Art artifacts: Ars Gratia Libris
The artist-decorated mugs of the Salmagundi Club library.