Erstwhile colonial seat and mid-century destination for the Hollywood elite, San Juan is a city where rich food, good times, and reminders of the past are always just around the corner—nowhere more so than at the Caribe Hilton.
When the Bulb Bubble Burst
400 years ago, the world experienced its first major financial crisis — and Dutch “Tulip Mania” was to blame.
Four Decades of Olde Hope
It may be worth noting on the fortieth anniversary of one of the treasures of the American antiques business, that the portraits, painted furniture, weathervanes, and quilts they purvey at Olde Hope Antiques are, in an important sense, emblems of the owners’ belief in bedrock values of our democracy.
A New Home for American Classicism
For decades, Kelly and Randall Schrimsher have acquired the best of the best in early nineteenth-century American furniture. Now, much of their collection has a period-appropriate showcase in Charleston, South Carolina.
Trail of Tiles
A fantasia in ceramic, Leighton House in London testifies to the decorative sense of its namesake builder, artist Frederic Leighton, and the craftsmanship of William De Morgan.
Exhibitions: Back in Style
Where does a darling of the art deco movement go to retire? For Tamara de Lempicka, once a painter of the rich and famous, known for her evocative cubist-inspired style, it was Cuernavaca, Mexico — by way of Houston, Texas.
Exhibitions: Ties of Friendship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
When Vincent van Gogh set out to make the four portraits of the Roulin family that are the centerpiece of the present show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, he was already an expert landscapist, but was relatively untried in the art of portraiture.
Curious Objects: This Table Came With a Bill of Sale
On the groundbreaking exhibition Fighting for Freedom: Black Craftspeople and the Pursuit of Independence…
Exhibitions: Tales from the Other Side
For the unbeliever, the skeptic, the misanthrope, few movements could elicit greater disdain than the spiritualism that arose in the late 1840s and swept through American society into the 1920s.
Exhibitions: Hold the World in Your Hands
That’s the idea behind a new exhibition at Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: John Smart: Virtuoso in Miniature, on view to January 4, 2026.