Magazine January/February 2024

Gregory Cerio

Exhibitors at New York’s Winter Show describe some of the exceptional offerings they will bring to this year’s edition at the Park Avenue Armory

The Road to Redemption
Elizabeth Pochoda

French painter and textile artist Sonia Delaunay at the Bard Graduate Center; Bellini and Giorgione at the Frick Madison; and René Lalique at A La Vieille Russie

Scholars seek information on a Cleveland jewelry designer

Gallic Bred: Now nearly forgotten, New York furniture maker and French expatriate Léon Marcotte was the toast of tycoons in the Gilded Age
Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle

Wake Up the Echoes:
The University of Notre Dame’s new art museum is a Beaux-Arts throwback
Sammy Dalati

Book of Hours: A new treatise on the early American polymath David Rittenhouse draws attention to his elegant timepieces
Bob Frishman

Notable museum catalogues and other books from the past year
Sierra Holt

Sierra Holt

An Overdue Roll Call
Eleanor H. Gustafson

Antique playthings are the core of a charming and eclectic Texas collection that also includes important Eastern Woodlands Indian artifacts, nineteenth-century furniture, and folk paintings
Chris Waddington

A current exhibition charts the career of photographer Dorothea Lange, whose work captures the human condition with uncommon candor
Thomas Connors

The New-York Historical Society unveils Kay WalkingStick’s view of Hudson River school landscapes
Elizabeth Pochoda

Founded as a members’ club for his peers by nineteenth-century America’s greatest actor, The Players has won a reputation for its historical stewardship—and irrepressible bonhomie
Lansing Moore Jr.

In this excerpt from a forthcoming memoir, an auction house veteran looks back on his early days in the trade
Robert Brunk

John and Mable Ringling’s fantasy palazzo in Sarasota is a testament to the romantic power of architecture
James Gardner