MARCH/APRIL 2024
Editor’s Letter
Gregory Cerio
Field Notes
Rolling Along
Elizabeth Pochoda
Current and Coming
Impressionism and Norwegian silver in Texas; the Italian and Harlem Renaissances at the Met; Hiroshige in Brooklyn; Matisse and the sea in St. Louis; headshots from Hollywood’s golden age in Washington, DC ; and feathered friends in Charleston
Object Lesson
A Stitch from Time Past: On collecting antique sewing boxes
Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle
Facets and Settings
Suddenly Chic: Costume Jewelry
A forthcoming exhibition casts a glowing light on emblems of lower-cost glamour
Jeannine Falino
Events
Sierra Holt
Endnotes
Will the Real Miss Liester Please Stand Up?
Eleanor H. Gustafson
Features
“Life Is Better with Antiques”
A new book takes us into the eccentrically elegant home of a New Orleans antiques dealer and interior decorator
Valorie Hart with photographs by Sara Essex Bradley
The Wing at 100
As the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art approaches the centennial anniversary of its founding this year, we spoke with its curator in charge, Sylvia Yount, about the evolution of the collection and plans for growth and change
Glenn Adamson
Old Wine, New Bottle
In Philadelphia, a collection of historical art and design finds a happy home in a modernist tower, thanks to the ministrations of interior designer Thomas Jayne
Gregory Cerio
Books That Illustrate Nature with Nature Itself
On exsiccatae, xylotheks, lepidochromes, and other rare books and collections that incorporate actual biological and botanical specimens
Robert McCracken Peck
Inside Job
An exhibition explores the ways in which artistic depictions of interior scenes and the applied and decorative arts reflected social and economic currents in early twentieth-century America
Michael Neumeister
Ohio Stately
The Hay-McKinney Mansion in Cleveland offers a glimpse of midwestern opulence at the turn of the twentieth century
Henry Adams