All about the jewelry collection of the Museum of Fine Arts and its curator.
“Gracious and artful devices for the adornment of life”
An excerpt from the new book English Needlework, 1600–1740, The Percival D. Griffiths Collection charts the origins of the twentieth-century reappraisal of the embroiderer’s art.
Garden Varieties
A forthcoming exhibition charts the affinities between paintings of the French countryside by the impressionist Claude Monet and the abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell.
Current and coming: A founding Black family in Philadelphia
The Museum of the American Revolution’s latest show highlights the storied Forten family of Philadelphia.
Object lesson: Everyday Silver and the Triumph of Queen Anne
An exploration of Queen Anne tableware as everyday silver.
Current and coming: Berenice Abbott in New York
Berenice Abbott’s capture of New York City in transition is the subject of a current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Many Mysteries of Vermeer
The most intriguing and inscrutable of the Dutch Old Masters is the subject of a can’t-miss exhibition in Amsterdam.
Current and coming: Sargent’s Spanish sojourns
A survey of John Singer Sargent’s Iberian paintings is on view at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.
Curious Objects: Thomas Commeraw, Free Black Potter in 1800s New York
For nearly two hundred years, from his death in 1823, New York potter Thomas Commeraw was out of sight. In the digital age it finally became possible to positively identify him: as a prosperous free Black craftsman with a manufactory in Corlears Hook.
On view: Glenn Adamson’s Mirror Mirror at Chatsworth
Art and design of today visit a historic British manor house.