The country’s National Museum Of History has traveled a long, strange road from viceregal citadel to cultural institution.
In the galleries: Remnants of Rome
A current exhibition at the venerable National Arts Club on Gramercy Park in New York demonstrates
the continuing influence of antiquity on the art of our time.
Living with antiques: The Oddities Couple
In Connecticut, Ryan and Regina Cohn have created a live-in Victorian Gothic cabinet of curiosities.
Museum accessions: Loan Star
Newly arrived artworks on long-term loan enliven the American Galleries of the MFA, Houston.
Gotham: Crucible of American Art
How New York City became the center of the US art world.
Facets and settings: Brilliant-cut Boston
All about the jewelry collection of the Museum of Fine Arts and its curator.
“Gracious and artful devices for the adornment of life”
An excerpt from the new book English Needlework, 1600–1740, The Percival D. Griffiths Collection charts the origins of the twentieth-century reappraisal of the embroiderer’s art.
Current and coming: Berenice Abbott in New York
Berenice Abbott’s capture of New York City in transition is the subject of a current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Current and coming: Helen LaFrance at the Speed
While not exceedingly well known, Kentucky native Helen LaFrance was one of the most gifted and prolific self-taught artists of the past century…
John Craxton’s Sensuous Odyssey
John Craxton was one of those eccentric British modernists, like his friends and near contemporaries Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland, John Piper, Ivon Hitchens, and Keith Vaughan…