While many American cultural institutions are attempting limited re-openings with fingers crossed and bated breath, for the utltracautious aesthete, museum gardens and sculpture parks offer and alternative way to enjoy art, beauty, and a little serenity
The Gentleman from Georgia: William N. Banks Jr., remembered
His real interest was in social history. It was the architecture first, then the people and their stories. I don’t remember anyone ever telling Bill what to write about. He chose his topics, and they were consequently connected to his heart and mind.
Openings and Closings: September 2 to September 8
See what musuems have shared their collections with the Google Arts and Culture page!
Empire Refracted
A forthcoming exhibition and its catalogue examine the social
significance of glass in eighteenth-century Britain.
End notes: New Light on the Lives of Charleston’s enslaved
It’s usually not good to discover rats’ nests in your walls, but a serendipitous turn of events in Charleston has revealed what a treasure they can hold
Catesby: Man of Many Talents (From our Archives)
A full century before John James Audubon published his Birds of America, an Englishman, Mark Catesby, brought out two folio volumes of what he grandly named Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands
Mad Scientist (From our Archives)
Eugen Gabritschevsky was born in Moscow, in December of 1893, into a bourgeois, cultured, and highly educated family.
Curious Objects: A Fireback from Hell—Ironworks and Industrial Labor in the Antebellum South, with Torren Gatson
Scholar Torren Gatson, guest editor for the current edition of the Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts, comes on the pod to talk about an iron fireback produced at the Vesuvius Furnace in North Carolina.
Openings and Closings: August 26 to September 1
See what’s going on in person and online at museums across the US!
“Miss Dimock is not orthodox at all” (From our Archives)
William Glackens was regarded as a modern artist by the standards of his day; the woman he married would have been considered thoroughly modern even by the standards of our own










