Museums in Boston and Chicago plan for exhibitions that demonstrate the two cities’ shared love of the French Impressionist
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Zimmerman House (From our Archives)
The house on the corner of Heather and Union Streets in Manchester, New Hampshire, is surprising
African Art in a fresh context
As they are with their collections of Native American art, many museums are rethinking the way they present, describe, and discuss the art of Africa
Paper Tiger
Pablo Picasso had unparalleled virtuosity working with the most mundane of artistic mediums
The Virginia Dulcimer (From our Archives)
For generations of Virginia musicians, dulcimer (or dulcimore) has described a family of instruments with three characteristics
The (America) House that Mrs. Webb Built (From our Archives)
Aileen Osborn Webb (Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb) came from a family of art patrons
Object Lesson: All About the Windsor Chair
The work begins with the riving of logs
New Light: Blyth Spirits
More Benjamin Blyth portraits in oils
Seventeenth-century French enameled watches in the Walters Art Gallery (From our Archives)
In his book Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers, F. J. Britten notes that “watches with enamel painting before 1640 are exceedingly rare”
Artistic Offices
A photo excerpt from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s new book on the homes of artists takes us into the studios where they worked