Barbara Babcock Millhouse answers some question about her grandparent’s home, now the Reynolda House Museum of American Art.
Curious Objects: Secret History of a Windsor Chair
Benjamin Miller, host of The Magazine ANTIQUES’ podcast Curious Objects, interviewed Michael Pashby of Michael Pashby Antiques about a Windsor chair with interesting history. Made about 1790 by Gillows, it’s composed primarily of ash and has a sycamore seat.
Polished Performances
Classic and contemporary silver in dialogue at the Museum of the City of New York
A stitch in wartime
The American Folk Art Museum presents a fascinating collection of quilts made by men at arms.
Thoroughly Modern Moses
What did Grandma Moses have in common with the likes of Jackson Pollock? Arguably, plenty.
The bouillabaisse of design influences on an early American silver soup tureen
A few years ago, one of two silver soup tureens ordered by Thomas Gibbons in 1810 came on the market, after remaining for nearly two centuries in the possession of his descendants.
Presidential Appointments
Andrew Jackson and three Philadelphia cabinetmakers.
Gotham Ink
A new exhibition examines the long, colorful history of tattooing in New York.
Beyond George Washington
A new program takes shape at New York’s Morris-Jumel Mansion.
Paul Landacre’s world
The brilliance of the master printmaker Paul Landacre owed something to the patronage of Hollywood royalty but a great deal more to the dynamism of early California modernism.