The Corning Museum of Glass is a hedgehog among foxes, doing one big thing exceptionally well
The ‘It’ chair
The legendary decorator Frances Elkins made it popular in the 1930s, but her so-called loop chair goes back to the eighteenth century as a surviving set of examples attests
The baptism of Pocahontas
A complex set of national attitudes and assumptions come to light in John Gadsby Chapman’s 1840 mural