NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2023
Editor’s Letter
Gregory Cerio
Field Notes
Serious Fun
Elizabeth Pochoda
Current and Coming
Impressionism and 1930s art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mexican modernism in Dallas, Parisian modern art in Detroit, and Marie Laurencin’s portraits of the Paris demimonde at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia
Object Lesson
Lights from the Dark Ages: The Lüsterweibchen
Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle
In Memoriam
Joan Kaplan Davidson, 1927–2023 Benjamin Davidson
Facets And Settings
Holiday Jewelry Book Selections
Ruth Peltason
Events
Sierra Holt
Endnotes
Of Glass and Grape Nuts
Eleanor H. Gustafson
Features
Hidden Names and Complex Fates
A new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum examines the depictions of Black people in the art of the early American North
Elizabeth Pochoda
The Pre-Raphaelite and the Potter
A current exhibition explores the life and work of an eminent late Victorian artistic couple, Evelyn and William De Morgan
Sarah Hardy
"Hand of an Angel; Eye of a Sage”
The life and art of Charles White, who battled discrimination and illness to achieve a transcendent vision, is explored in a current traveling exhibition
Jill Deupi
Changing Times, Changing Art
A current exhibition examines American realist art as a mirror on sweeping societal transformations in the early twentieth century
Art Martin
“Like a Moth to the Flame”
In an excerpt from his new book, the esteemed studio furniture maker Michael Coffey describes the beginnings of his transition from one type of good works to another
The Shock of the Hue
How the surprising, saturated colors in the turn-of-the-century paintings Matisse and others created in the South of France changed the face of Western art
James Gardner