Born to a conservative Protestant family in Lausanne, Switzerland, Félix Vallotton rather intrepidly moved to Paris in 1882 at the age of sixteen to study art.
Curious Objects: Badger Up! Collecting Baseball-abilia with Internet Star Randall
This month on Curious Objects Ben talks with Randall, the voice behind the viral video The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger, about his baseball card collection
A Short History of Ballparks
The industrial revolution saw several new structure types added to the urban lexicon, including ballparks, which are much on our minds at this time of year
Studio craft takes wing in San Francisco
The American studio craft movement—which gained momentum in the postwar period and married a devotion to the handmade and honest materials to a fine arts sensibility—flourished particularly vibrantly in California.
Worldly visions at NYU’s Grey Gallery
Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection, an exhibition on view at the Grey Gallery through December 7
Celebrating the happy art of Vera Neumann
For many women with a chic and sporty fashion sensibility, a Vera Neumann silk scarf—or a dozen of them—has long been a wardrobe essential.
An Extraordinary Map of an Imaginary World
Jerry’s Map Exhibition Set 2 is currently on view at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 10/15/19–10/21/19
See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world
The Green Jewel
Most of New York City’s Victorian heritage has vanished so thoroughly that few of the locals have any idea that it ever existed.
Thomas Hart Benton on the Block
The artist’s original painting used in a liquor ad comes up for auction in Chicago