A cultural institution of transcendent richness and breadth, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York enters its sesquicentennial year
Editor’s Letter–September/October 2019
The cover for this issue is fun, charming, and cheerful, and there are very few occasions, in my estimation, on which fun, charm, and cheer are not welcome
Escape Artist
An exhibition at the Brandywine River Museum surveys the adventurous enchantments of illustrator N. C. Wyeth
“So snug and nice”
A visit to Osborne House, Queen Victoria’s beloved seaside refuge
Curious Objects
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Curious Objects: The Soldier, the Dandy, and the Queen
Listeners to this podcast will recognize the name Freeman’s—for more than a year, the Philadelphia-based auction house has been Curious Objects’ lead sponsor, and its no exaggeration to say the podcast wouldn’t exist without them.
Curious Objects: Noah Wunsch Was Born to Collect
In this episode of Curious Objects, Ben takes the measure of Noah Wunsch’s treasure—which ranges from a 60 BC Visigothic belt buckle to the zany artwork of Genieve Figgis—and learns how the collection was built.
Hail, Columbia!
America’s oldest steamboat heads for a new life on the Hudson River
Five Leaves Left
It’s not often you get to celebrate the 150th anniversary of a twig. Yet that is exactly the opportunity that presented itself this past October 13. On that date, back in the year 1868, Sophia Thoreau leaned over a sprig of five shagbark hickory leaves and inscribed them, in indelible ink, with some lines from a poem by her brother Henry.
Curious Objects: Let the Market Decide–Economist Friedrich Hayek’s Assets Head to Auction
The weighty thoughts and worldly goods of Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek—whose belongings, including a 1974 Nobel Prize, are being offered by Sotheby’s in London—are the subject of this episode of Curious Objects, which stars Duke University professor Bruce Caldwell and Sotheby’s specialist Gabriel Heaton.