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MARCH/APRIL 2020
Editor's Letter
Gregory Cerio
Critical Thinking/Difficult Issues
Facing the Past
Glenn Adamson
Current and Coming
The Dietrich collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Majolica at the Walters, Eileen Gray at Bard Graduate Center, and more
Farther Afield
Of Masks and Mascara: The Helena Rubinstein collection at the Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
Brian Allen
Object Lesson
Eero Saarinen in Four Chairs
Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle
On Books
Becoming America offers a survey of highlights from the Jonathan and Karin Fielding collection of folk art
Gregory Cerio
Connoisseur's Eye
Simple and Artistic, Simple and Good: Assessing the best of the Saturday Evening Girls’ Paul Revere Pottery
Joseph Cunningham
Events
Jenamarie Boots
Endnotes
The British are Coming (Back) at Colonial Williamsburg
Eleanor H. Gustafson
Features
Arts and Sciences
A new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum examines the influence of naturalist Alexander von Humboldt on the American arts. In focus here: the landscapes of Frederic Church
Eleanor Jones Harvey
Changing Tastes
An exhibition now at the Wadsworth Atheneum explores the revolution in food and dining that began in seventeenth-century France and shaped the way we eat today
Meredith Chilton
Agent Provocateur
An exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art charts the influence of critic and collector Félix Fénéon through the work of the early modern artists he championed
James Gardner
Cactus Flower
As a major retrospective of her work tours the country, new depths are added to the emerging story of the pioneering American abstractionist Agnes Pelton and her art
Eve M. Kahn
Hail the Met at 150
A cultural institution of transcendent richness and breadth, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York enters its sesquicentennial year. Plus friends and contributors list their favorite works from the Met collections
James Gardner
Teviotdale
Past and present live hand-inhand at a Georgian villa in the Hudson
River valley
Written and photographed by Pieter Estersohn