The Met’s galleries devoted to British art and design reopen to the public on March 2, 2020
Curious Objects: Afterlife in Alabaster–A Canopic Jar from Charles Ede
This month on Curious Objects… a 2,500-year-old Imseti-headed canopic jar.
Frank Discussions at the Currier Museum
The Usonian Automatic was the last residential building type that Frank Lloyd Wright devised in his more than seventy-year career, and only seven of these small, “affordable” houses were ever built.
The Unexpected Art of Mary Sully
A new book examines the singular work of an American Indian modernist.
The Other Side of History
Michelson’s work introduces the history of Native Americans during the Revolutionary War, using video, sound, print, and AR to reveal forgotten layers of the past.
Less Than Mint Condition
About a decade ago, when I worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, a little joke was making the rounds.
Going Medieval at Luhring Augustine
The thirty works on view are, without exception, excellent
Rose Valley Furniture
From 1901 to 1906, a small furniture shop in Rose Valley, Pennsylvania, produced a trickle of pieces that looked back, looked forward, and yet were entirely of their time.
At Home in Cuba with Ernest Hemingway
The writer is revered in his adopted homeland, and his country house outside Havana has been preserved
in near-pristine condition.
Baroque Exuberance
An excerpt from Fringe, Frog, and Tassel: The Art of the Trimmings-Maker in Interior Decoration in Britain and Ireland.