A cultural institution of transcendent richness and breadth, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York enters its sesquicentennial year
Museum visit: Wake Up the Echoes
The University of Notre Dame’s new art museum is a Beaux-Arts throwback.
Current and coming: Re-united Old Masters at the Frick
Works by Bellini and Giorgione are on display together again after four hundred-odd years of separation.
Object lesson: Lights from the Dark Ages: The Lüsterweibchen
All about the world’s weirdest chandeliers.
On books: Meeting of the Minds
A book series from the Frick Collection pairs scholarly analysis with artistic interpretation.
Museum visit: Second Sight
The Intuit Museum embodies Chicago’s longstanding appreciation for self-taught and outsider art.
Clay, Water, and Spirit
An exhibition of Pueblo pottery seeks to reveal the soul that resides within the art.
Seamless Transition
An excerpt from the book The New Antiquarians takes us into the Maine home of a young clothing designer turned folk art collector and dealer.
Curious Objects: Textiles don’t get no respect
Henry VII commissioned thirty of these richly embroidered vestments called “copes,” for the English clergy, helping to lay the foundation for that special blend of religion, power, and material prestige that would mark the reign of his son, the notorious Henry VIII.
Facets and settings: Library Gems
A roundup of some noteworthy recent books on jewelers and their jewelry.