An elegant town house on the island of Saint Croix features an exemplary collection of nineteenth-century West Indies–crafted mahogany furniture
Remembering sculptor Claude Lalanne
Main de roman, an exquisite little sculpture could easily have been overlooked at this spring’s edition of TEFAF New York, but it stood out in L’Arcen Seine’s gallery booth as a memorial to Les Lalanne, the sculpting and design duo who created a universe of lyrical and iconoclastic objects in stubborn defiance of art world trends for over half a century.
Botanical Bossa Nova
He’s back! The irrepressible Brazilian artist and landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx, dead these twenty-five years, is on stage once again, this time at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx
A Fresh Look at a Few Old Pastels
Henrietta Johnston’s portraits of Colonel John Moore and his wife, Frances Lambert Moore
Rokeby: The past is present
In an excerpt from his new book, Life Along the Hudson: The Historic Country Estates of the Livingston Family, Pieter Estersohn examines the rich legacy of one of America’s great houses.
Stage right: Museums and contemporary conservatism
“I actually checked to ensure this was not a leftover April Fools’ story.” That was how my colleague Christopher Wilk, a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, sent me word of a “Brexit Museum” now being mooted in the UK.
Here there be dragons
An exhibition at the Morgan Library explores the meaning of monsters in medieval manuscripts
Re-examining Thomas Cole
A new exhibition explores the global career of one of America’s leading landscape painters.
A portrait takes shape
The artist Annie Traquair Lang begins to emerge from the shadow of her mentor and paramour, William Merritt Chase.
Treasures beyond gold
A new exhibition examines the luxury arts of the ancient Americas