Visitors to Versailles: From Louis XIV to the French Revolution
Design Hudson
Saturday, May 26 Going Wilde The Brooklyn Museum’s curator of decorative arts, Barry R. Harwood, will give a slideshow tour of his amazing Hudson Valley house, meticulously decorated in the extravagant style of the late 19th-century Aesthetic Movement. It’s the cover story of the current issue of The Magazine ANTIQUES. Cocktails with Connoisseurs We’ll be welcomed by hosts Paula and …
“Not my grandmother’s china”
The Artistic Table is on view until June 10th at Hillwood in Washington, DC
A curious George at the Frick
Still flushed with national pride after the War of 1812, the North Carolina legislature decided to commission a statue of George Washington for the state capitol in late 1815.
Voydite! An exhibition of rarely seen Fabergé treasures at the new A La Vielle Russie
From May 1 to the 18th, ALVR will hold their inaugural exhibition in the new digs: an array of rarities recently on loan for the Royal Fabergé show that closed in February at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich, England.
Lasting impressions
Classic lithographs at the Zimmerli
Breaking new ground
Picturing Mississippi at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson and a related exhibition at Tougaloo College are events in museum history as much as landmarks in the state’s history
Curious Objects: A conversation with luthier Paul Becker
Benjamin Miller talks with Paul Becker, the fifth-generation owner and director of Chicago-based Carl Becker and Son.
Celebrating Benjamin West at the Pennsylvania Academy
Pennsylvania-born artist Benjamin West began his career stateside, but it was across the Atlantic, in England, where he found fame, as a court painter to George III