Magazine May/June 2024

Don Sparacin

Nature's Child
Elizabeth Pochoda

The Met’s reinstalled Wang Galleries; sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French in conversation; American paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Maynard Dixon’s Nevada; Venetian glass in Virginia; O’Sullivan’s Old West at the Speed; and Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York in Chicago

Social Engineering: The refined forms and high-minded purpose of A. W. N. Pugin’s Gothic revivalism
Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle

Tempting Providence: The RISD Museum fleshes out its jewelry collection with smart acquisitions and commissions from contemporary makers that hearken back to Rhode Island’s metalworking past
Jeannine Falino

Catching up with Curious Objects
Sammy Dalati

Sierra Holt

In Memoriam: Greg Cerio
Eleanor H. Gustafson

An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery honors the American women abroad who remade themselves while making modernism
Elizabeth Pochoda

Collecting American furniture continues at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley

Caribbean-born neoclassical painter Guillaume Lethière gets a second look at the Clark Art Institute
James Gardner

Long revered for his contributions to the field of ornithology, John James Audubon’s artistic influences and legacy receive proper vetting in a new book
Roberta J. M. Olson

At the Allan Breed School of Woodworking in New Hampshire, a museum-trained master craftsman instructs the next generation in the styles and standards of historic American furniture
Sarah Bilotta

Thanks to the aesthetic discernment and farsighted provisions of an English viscount, Port Sunlight’s Lady Lever Art Gallery today preserves one of the most comprehensive collections of fine and decorative arts in the UK
Barrymore Laurence Scherer