All about the world’s weirdest chandeliers.
“Like a Moth to the Flame”
In an excerpt from his new book, furniture maker Michael Coffey describes the beginnings of his transition from one type of good works to another.
Facets and settings: Holiday Jewelry Book Selections
A dazzling collection of stories from international jewelry houses and a longtime dealer and scholar.
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.
Curious Objects: A Met Curator Tells the Strange Story of Louis XIV’s Carpets
This week on the podcast we travel back to the seventeenth century, to the glorious court of the Sun King, Louis XIV…
Changing Times, Changing Art
A current exhibition examines American realist art as a mirror on sweeping societal transformations in the early twentieth century.
Current and coming: Hard times, powerful art at the Met
On view is the provocative art of the Great Depression.
Leash Common Denominator
Some notes on art, design, and historical artifacts related to dogs.
From Gunpowder to Greenery
How the grounds of the du Pont family’s first estate—now the home of the Hagley Museum and Library—were transformed from a munitions mill to a romantic Italianate garden.
Current and coming: In Chicago, the ceramic art of Ruth Duckworth
The Smart Museum of Art honors the famed ceramist in the first major show of her work since 2005.