The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates Count Carl Gustaf Tessin, art patron extraordinaire.
Gotham Ink
A new exhibition examines the long, colorful history of tattooing in New York.
Pictorialist photography at the Palmer
The subject of a new exhibition at the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University, the photographer Eva Watson-Schütze (1867–1935) was a leading member of the Photo-Secession, the early twentieth-century movement founded by Alfred Stieglitz that sought to elevate photography to the status of fine art.
Old Kentucky Home styles at the Frazier
Kentucky by Design: Material Culture, Regionalism, and the New Deal at the Frazier History Museum in Louisville is an exhibition eighty years in the making. The show examines the never-before-seen work of Kentucky artists who contributed to the Index of American Design, part of the New Deal’s Federal Art Project.
Beyond George Washington
A new program takes shape at New York’s Morris-Jumel Mansion.
Fame is a bee: Eyeing Emily Dickinson at the Morgan Library and on film
No other American poet—maybe no other American writer—excites more curiosity than Emily Dickinson.
Restoring the lost laurels of Adolf Dehn
A new exhibition opening January 27, 2017 at the Fairfield University Art Museum in Connecticut aims to restore some luster to Adolf Dehn’s name.
Matters of Taste
David Remnick, in a post-election piece in the New Yorker, went so far as to describe Trump as “vulgarity unbounded.” Are we about to have a four-year crash course in this topic? Maybe it’s time to take a closer look.
Dispatch 1: A White House Makeover, Americana On The Rise, The Storyville Story, New Questions About Old Masters
A new sporadical email newsletter about the arts of the past as they live in the present day by Elizabeth Pochoda, Advisory Editor, The Magazine ANTIQUES.
Living with Antiques: Compass Points
The man who brought together the furniture and works of art in two Texas homes takes inspiration from several directions.