Magazine March April 2023

Gregory Cerio

Background Check
Elizabeth Pochoda

The Spanish sojourns of Sargent in San Francisco; Berenice Abbott at the Met; and the storied Forten family of Philadelphia

Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City: The country’s Museum of National History has traveled a long, strange road from viceregal citadel to cultural institution
Sammy Dalati

Brilliant-cut Boston: All about the jewelry collection of the Museum of Fine Arts and its curator
Ruth Peltason

Loan Star: Newly arrived artworks on long-term loan enliven the American galleries of the MFA, Houston
Chris Waddington

Everyday Silver and the Triumph of Queen Anne
Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle

Mateo Solis Prada

Home Is Where the Heart Is
Eleanor H. Gustafson

How New York City became the center of the US art world
Barrymore Laurence Scherer

A forthcoming exhibition charts the affinities between paintings of the French countryside by the impressionist Claude Monet and the abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell
Kevin D. Murphy

An excerpt from the new book English Needlework, 1600–1740, The Percival D. Griffiths Collection charts the origins of the twentieth-century reappraisal of the embroiderer’s art
William DeGregorio and Christian Jussel

The most intriguing and inscrutable of the Dutch Old Masters is the subject of a can’t-miss exhibition in Amsterdam
James Gardner

On the Jordan Playboy roadster: A car for the liberated woman of the Jazz Age
Henry Adams

In Connecticut, Ryan and Regina Cohn have created a live-in Victorian Gothic cabinet of curiosities
Text and photography by Pieter Estersohn