The tenth edition of Dispatches, a new sporadical email newsletter about the arts of the past as they live in the present day by Elizabeth Pochoda, Advisory Editor, The Magazine ANTIQUES.
Creative Hudson
The art and antiques trade has helped attract many talented people working in the decorative arts to the area. Meet a few of them.
The Invention of the American Art Museum
America is so rich in great museums that we have come to take them for granted. We should not.
Masterful Mixing at the Hammer
We asked Ann Philbin, director of the Hammer Museum, to tell us how she’s maintaining focus on the museum’s distinguished collection of European and American paintings and works on paper, while fostering the burgeoning contemporary art scene in Los Angeles.
The Middle Ages meets the Digital Age in Chicago
A glimpse of the possible future of museum displays of historical artifacts can be seen in the recent opening of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Deering Family Galleries of Medieval and Renaissance Art, Arms, and Armor.
Day Trip Scrapbook: Hudson Valley Sunday
Look at some photos from our Sunday tour in the Hudson Valley
Montgomery Place, touched by greatness
While notable for many reasons, the Montgomery Place estate in Annandale-on-Hudson is most distinctive for having enjoyed the attention of two famed American tastemakers of the mid-nineteenth century: architect Andrew Jackson Davis and landscape designer Andrew Jackson Downing.
Bard College: a trove of architectural gems
Dating to 1860, when it was founded by philanthropist John Bard in association with leaders of New York City’s Episcopal Church, Bard College wins plaudits for its lively liberal arts curriculum. But what strikes the casual visitor is the architectural diversity of the school’s five hundred-acre campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, which features buildings that range in style from the neoclassical to the ebullient modernity of Frank Gehry.
Majestic Makeover
A royal residence gets a dazzling touch-up.
Neglected viewpoints at the National Gallery of Art
A body of work that has received scant attention from collectors is on view this spring at the National Gallery of Art.