Works by Bellini and Giorgione are on display together again after four hundred-odd years of separation.
Curious Objects: The Marginalia That Made Christie’s Value This Book at $1 Million
Rhiannon Knol, specialist at Christie’s, discusses the book that would become the foundational text of modern anatomy—and the special edition they have on offer.
Facets and settings: Holiday Jewelry Book Selections
A dazzling collection of stories from international jewelry houses and a longtime dealer and scholar.
Leash Common Denominator
Some notes on art, design, and historical artifacts related to dogs.
Curious Objects: All About Amber, with Laura Kugel
Amber gameboards became very popular in northern Europe at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and the subject of this week’s episode represents the very best of type.
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.
Curious Objects: Leather, with Glenn Adamson
Glenn Adamson talks all about leather, one of the oldest as well as the commonest human-worked materials.
Curious Objects: A Journey Back In Time At the Peabody Essex Museum, Part 2
Benjamin Miller continues his odyssey through the PEM’s James B. and Mary Lou Hawkes Collection Center…
Personal space: One Artist’s Notes on Visiting an Art Fair
Laurene Krasny Brown shares her seven notes on attending an art fair.
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.