A new exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution examines the influence of naturalist Alexander von Humboldt on the American arts. In focus here: the landscapes of Frederic Church
The Other Woodstock Anniversary
In the early twentieth century, the town of Woodstock, New York, in the lee of the Catskill Mountains, evolved into one of the leading art colonies in the United States.
Curious Objects: One Year in the Books
We’ve arrived at the first anniversary of the podcast and we’ve decided to treat this as an occasion for a little retrospection–this is after all a podcast about antiques–and give you a compilation of some of the more interesting moments from the last year of Curious Objects.
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.
A Classroom in the Age of Enlightenment
Revisiting Harvard’s Philosophy Chamber.
Handle with care
Introducing a new monthly column for aficionados of ceramics and glass.
Regarding Henri Matisse
A new exhibition explores the influence of the French master on American art.
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.
The Whitney After All
Some things just aren’t meant to fit in. The Whitney Museum of American Art certainly sounds like an august institution. But it was born on a scruffy back street in Greenwich Village at a time when “bohemian” meant “disreputable,” and during its six decades uptown—most of them at Madison Avenue and Seventy-Fifth Street, in the moneyed precincts of the Upper …
Events: Exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures through December
ALABAMA Montgomery Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: “Alexander Archipenko: Dreizehn Steinzichnungen”; November 29 to January 18, 2015. “The Grand Tour: Prints from Rome, Florence, Venice, Paris, and London”; to November 23. “Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and Imagined”; November 8 to January 4, 2015. ARIZONA Tucson Tucson Museum of Art: “La Vida Fantastica: Selections from the Latin American Folk …