An exploration into the conversations that folk art, and antiques in general, can inspire.
Curious Objects: Around the World at the Peabody Essex Museum, Part 1
The Peabody Essex Museum welcomes host Benjamin Miller behind the scenes into their Collection Center, a state of the art storage and viewing facility for many of their curious objects.
A Blueprint for Early America
On Owen Biddle’s 1806 book, The Young Carpenter’s Assistant.
From a Chain Gang to Art Museums
Overcoming extraordinary adversity, self-taught artist Winfred Rembert preserved his fraught past in words and in startling images made of tooled and painted leather.
Facets and settings: Brooches as Books, Necklaces as Novellas
The narrative art jewelry of Barbara Paganin.
Current and coming: This is your life, Frederick Douglass
The American icon gets the spotlight at the One Life Gallery.
Community Chest
Artist and artisan Madeline Yale Wynne and the founding of the Deerfield arts and crafts movement.
Personal space: One Artist’s Notes on Visiting an Art Fair
Laurene Krasny Brown shares her seven notes on attending an art fair.
Curious Objects:New Perspectives on Ancient Glass, with Katherine Larson
In 1963, archaeologists from the Corning Museum of Glass in upstate New York began excavations in an ancient Levantine town called Jalamet…
Current and coming: Hector Guimard, Architecte d’art, at the Driehaus
The artist’s six-decade career is explored with one hundred pieces of decorative and fine art dating from the Belle Époque and beyond.