JULY/AUGUST 2022
Editor's Letter
Gregory Cerio
Field Notes
The Shaker Perplex
Elizabeth Pochoda
Current and Coming
Ceramist Katherine Choy at NOMA, posters from Paris's Expositions Universellles at the Zimmerli, and Cartier jewelry in Dallas
Farther Afield
Harlequin Romance: In Dresden, a philosophy lesson found in Meissen porcelain figurines
James Gardner
On Books
El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture
James Gardner
Artist Profile
Birds of a Feather: A visit to the home and studio of artist-cum-naturalist Mary Jo McConnell
Robert McCracken Peck, with photography by Elizabeth S. Creamer
Object Lesson
The Once and Future Couch: Four generations on, the furniture-making Eilersen family continues to strive for improvement
Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle
Events
Elizabeth Lanza
Endnotes
"One-Frame Movies" in the Met's American Wing period rooms
Eleanor H. Gustafson
Features
Habitat for Humanity
Folk art, self-taught art, and handmade furniture and crafts bring warmth, wit, and a spirit of communal kinshop to the home of Marc Brown, creator of the Arthur children's literature universe, and artist Laurene Krasny Brown
Stacy C. Hollander, with photograph by Ellen McDermott with Bridget Sciales
Early Adopters
An exhibition at the Whitney Museum offers a showcase for both the stars and the less-heralded talents of American art at the advent of modernism
Barbara Haskell
Man about Town
An introduction to the artist Edward Lange, entrepreneurial nineteenth-century painter of Long Island townscapes
Lauren Brincat and Peter Fedoryk
Renaissance Modernist
The Shelburne Museum surveys the art of Luigi Lucioni, a twentieth-century American painter who took his cues from the Italian Old Masters
Thomas Connors
"To Wield the Needle with Advantage"
American schoolgirl academy embroidery in the years 1790 to 1830
Michael R. Payne and Suzanne Rudnick Payne