What emerges from the portraits of Alice Neel is a sense of the artist’s own compassionate decency
Curious Objects:The WPA Origins of the American Doll, with Allison Robinson
During the Great Depression, the WPA funded an interracial labor program in Wisconsin that employed over five thousand women to craft handmade goods
Openings and Closings: June 30 to July 6
Check out what’s going on this week at museums across the country!
Wandering Eye: Toasters, bubbles, and Folk Art
What the editors of The Magazine ANTIQUES are looking at this week
Current and coming: Revisiting Objects: USA at R and Company
Objects: USA 2020 – a new exhibition at the New York gallery R and Company serves as an homage to and a reboot of the original
From the Archives: High styles: American design in the twentieth century
An archival article from 1985 makes its web debut!
A Samuel Yellin Masterpiece Rediscovered
Yellin & Walker’s firescreen for the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Critical thinking difficult issues: May/June 2021
Legacies of the New Deal
The Frick out of the Frame
While its stately home sees renovations, the Frick Collection moves to temporary quarters on Madison Avenue
Wandering Eye:Dylan the welder and Moses in Japan
What the editors of The Magazine ANTIQUES are looking at this week