New scholarship offers insights into the life of the elusive early American artist Mary B. Tucker
Declarations of Dependence
America has been many things to many people: a city on a hill; a beacon of freedom; a melting pot. Now, the worry is that we’ve become a piggy bank.
Bent Pennies
Remembering a collector who celebrated beauty born of human frailty
Menageries of the Middle Ages at the Getty
The Getty Museum has mounted an exhibition devoted to some of the most splendid of bestiaries, Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World.
Take Note: New York’s Merchant’s House Museum
The Merchant’s House in New York City is a federal, state, and city landmark that dates from 1832 and contains an excellent collection of fine and decorative art. ANTIQUES spoke with Margaret Halsey Gardiner, who’s been its director for nearly thirty years.
Escape Artist
An exhibition at the Brandywine River Museum surveys the adventurous enchantments of illustrator N. C. Wyeth
Sew on and Sew Forth
The American Folk Art Museum shows off a recent gift of quilts
Come in for a landing at the TWA hotel
The iconic TWA Flight Center is back in business after a renovation that makes it the centerpiece of a new hotel and hospitality complex.
Curious Objects: The Color of Beauty–Philip Hewat-Jaboor’s Neoclassical Vase
This month on Curious Objects, Ben and Michael sit down with Philip Hewat-Jaboor, chairman of Masterpiece London and owner of a fine alabaster and rosso antico marble vase.
Celebrating Walt Whitman’s 200th Birthday
Three New York cultural institutions—the New York Public Library, the Grolier Club, and the Morgan Library and Museum—as well as the Library of Congress, are putting on summer exhibitions to honor the poet of democracy, empathy, and “the body electric.”