A tour of Women’s Work at the New-York Historical Society.
Object lesson: Lights from the Dark Ages: The Lüsterweibchen
All about the world’s weirdest chandeliers.
“Like a Moth to the Flame”
In an excerpt from his new book, furniture maker Michael Coffey describes the beginnings of his transition from one type of good works to another.
The Pre-Raphaelite and the Potter
A current exhibition explores the life and work of an eminent late Victorian artistic couple, Evelyn and William De Morgan.
Field notes: A Matter of Respect
A look into the current state of the repatriation of Native American art and objects in American museums.
New Light: More on Federal Bostonians and Their London Jeweler, Stephen Twycross
A continued study on the work of English jeweler Stephen Twycross.
Object lesson: Everyday Silver and the Triumph of Queen Anne
An exploration of Queen Anne tableware as everyday silver.
An Arts and Crafts Arcadia
Whether you know him as an artist, designer, printer, and key figure of the British arts and crafts movement; or as poet, novelist, translator of ancient Icelandic sagas; or as social critic, political activist, and pioneering preservationist, William Morris is one of the most enduring figures of Victorian England…
Living with antiques: A Labor of Love
Restoring the Daniel Hiester house, an eighteenth-century Pennsylvania gem
We’re No Angels: Women and allegory in the art of Mary Lizzie Macomber
Mary Lizzie Macomber was among the late nineteenth-century American artists who closely emulated the figurative work of the Pre-Raphaelites