THE MAGAZINE

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2016

COVER: Zapatistas [formerly Mexican Soldiers] by Alfredo Ramos Martínez, c. 1932. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Albert M. Bender Collection.

Editor’s letter

Critical thinking / Difficult issues

Law and order and the lessons of history
Glenn Adamson

Current and coming

Museum notes

Making a Brentrance: The Smithsonian goes to London
Britt Peterson

Market news

Four decades of Olde Hope
Elizabeth Pochoda
Dutch treat: TEFAF comes to New York
Marisa Bartolucci

Case history

A tsunami-tossed pair of sacred kasagi is returned to Japan
Paula Deitz

Events

Sammy Dalati

Endnotes

Eleanor H. Gustafson

Features

Idle hours

William Merritt Chase and modern leisure
Erica E. Hirshler

That was another country

Notes on early photographs by Larry Silver
James Gardner

Treasury notes

With a boost from Broadway, the caretakers of Hamilton Grange cast new light on Alexander Hamilton’s home
Elizabeth Pochoda

Sculpting joy

The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation
Diana L. Linden

Painting with fire

Enameling and the Cleveland school
Bernard N. Jazzar and Harold B. Nelson

Feminine mystique

Woman as allegory in the sculpture of Daniel Chester French
David B. Dearinger

The English at home

Thinking about the Geffrye Museum
Avis Berman

Lovely wreckage of the past

Ruins real and imagined in the art of Hubert Robert
James Gardner