A forthcoming exhibition at the Rhode Island School of Design
tells the epic story of a great American silverware maker
Modern Painters Abroad
John Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites
Magazine May June 2019
THE MAGAZINEMAY/JUNE 2019 Cover: In a Saint Croix town house, a collection of Imari porcelain is displayed on an island-made mahogany “cupping” table with an intricately carved splashboard. Photograph by Clemrick Bryan. Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Critical Thinking/Difficult IssuesMaker’s Mark Glenn Adamson Current and ComingKentucky tall-case clocks at the Speed Art Museum, retablos at Princeton, ironwork at the National Museum of African Art, …
Harvard celebrates the Bauhaus
In his 1948 year-end report, Charles Kuhn—Harvard professor, curator of the university’s Germanic Museum (later called the Busch-Reisinger Museum), and recently discharged deputy chief of the soldiering art experts known as the Monuments Men—took the modest first step to establish an archive of Bauhaus materials.
Made in America
When the Trump presidency ends, commentators will doubtless launch into a furious round of assessment. Among the motifs in this stock-taking, a humble article of clothing is sure to take on an outsize role: the red baseball hat, machine-embroidered with the legend “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.”
Curious Objects
Sign up for our newsletter and get Curious Objects right to your inbox This Week on Curious ObjectsListen to Curious Objects on these platformsPatreon || Spotify || Soundcloud || Apple PodcastsCheck out our newest episode here.Host Ben L. Miller is an antiques dealer, owner of the eponymous Curious Objects gallery, and specialist in silver and storytelling objects. He is also the …
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Making Paradise for Themselves
An exhibition at the High Museum of Art honors great self-taught artists of the American South
Fortuny and Friends at the Meadows
Though his fashion and textile designer son of the same name has more cachet today, the Spanish artist Mariano Fortuny was one of the most acclaimed and influential painters of the nineteenth century.
At Yale, an Enlightenment Lode
The Yale Center for British Art’s new show William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum asks us to abandon borders. Not borders between countries and people, but the walls in the mind built by group-think and obsessive, constipating specialization.