JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2020
Editor's Letter
Gregory Cerio
Critical Thinking/Difficult Issues
Less Than Mint Condition
Glenn Adamson
Current and Coming
Early Wendell Castle designs at R and Company, Jacob Lawrence's Struggle series at the Peabody Essex Museum, studio craft at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and more
Talking Antiques
Exhibitors highlight their favorite offerings at the Winter Show
On Books
Notable museum catalogues and other cooks from the past year
Museum Visit
Ways and Means Committee: An initiative by Alice Walton gets art to where it's needed most
Sammy Dalati
Farther Afield
Personal Space
The Other Side of History
Wendy Moonan
Object Lesson
Rose Valley Furniture
Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle
Events
Jenamarie Boots
Endnotes
Frank Discussions at the Currier Museum
Eleanor H. Gustafson
Features
Aesthetic Appeal
Collectors extraordinaire Deedee and Barrie Wigmore share their passion for the art and design of the late nineteenth century with a promised gift to the Met
Barrymore Laurence Scherer
Mexican Revolution
How Diego Rivera and his peers helped change the course of American art
James Gardner
Revisiting Rufus Porter
An exhibition at the Bowdoin College Musuem of Art prompts a new look at the folk artist and inventor
Suzanne Rudnick Payne and Michael R. Payne
Baroque Exuberance
An excerpt from Fringe, Frog, and Tassel: The Art of the Trimmings-Maker in Interior Decoration in Britain and Ireland
Annabel Westman
Homage to Iberia
As the Hispanic Society Museum and Library renovates its quarters and seeks to raise its public profile, a broad sampling of its cultural treasures tours the nation
James Gardner
At Home in Cuba with Ernest Hemingway
The writer is revered in his adopted homeland, and his country hose outside Havana has been preserved in near-pristine condition
Michael Connors
Entwined Threads
A curator reflects on the vibrant legacy of collector Eli Leon and quilter Rosie Lee Tompkins
Lawrence Rinder
Splendors that Astonished
A new exhibition at the Met explores the amazing creations that filled courtly cabinets
James Gardner
The Unexpected Art of Mary Sully
A new book examines the singular work of an American Indian modernist
Elizabeth Pochoda