A forthcoming exhibition and its catalogue examine the social
significance of glass in eighteenth-century Britain.
End notes: New Light on the Lives of Charleston’s enslaved
It’s usually not good to discover rats’ nests in your walls, but a serendipitous turn of events in Charleston has revealed what a treasure they can hold
Catesby: Man of Many Talents (From our Archives)
A full century before John James Audubon published his Birds of America, an Englishman, Mark Catesby, brought out two folio volumes of what he grandly named Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands
Mad Scientist (From our Archives)
Eugen Gabritschevsky was born in Moscow, in December of 1893, into a bourgeois, cultured, and highly educated family.
Curious Objects: A Fireback from Hell—Ironworks and Industrial Labor in the Antebellum South, with Torren Gatson
Scholar Torren Gatson, guest editor for the current edition of the Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts, comes on the pod to talk about an iron fireback produced at the Vesuvius Furnace in North Carolina.
Openings and Closings: August 26 to September 1
See what’s going on in person and online at museums across the US!
“Miss Dimock is not orthodox at all” (From our Archives)
William Glackens was regarded as a modern artist by the standards of his day; the woman he married would have been considered thoroughly modern even by the standards of our own
Snapshots from a Swedish Garden
At his home outside Stockholm, the art of sculptor Carl Milles is on full and glorious display
Poison Pen
An exhibition surveys the sinuous, sinister art of Aubrey Beardsley
When the Bauhaus came to Monte Albán (From our Archives)
To many, the Alberses were the embodiment of forward-thinking modernity. And yet, to a surprising degree, they were inspired by ancient art.