A taste of the research to be found in the author’s forthcoming catalogue of early American furniture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Fjord and Function
The influence of Scandinavian design in America will be examined in a forthcoming exhibition making stops in Milwaukee and Los Angeles
This Week’s Destinations for Digital Culture: May 20 to 26
How to engage with the arts on your phone or laptop
Figures in a landscape: sculpture in the British garden (From our Archives)
No English country-house garden would be complete without the well-placed statue terminating a vista
Refugee embroidery in Santa Fe
For readers of this magazine, needlework is a familiar medium for sorrow—seen in the stitched weeping willow trees and gravesites of nineteenth-century mourning embroideries
Ceramics Dynamic: Majolica
Delightful, delirious, and often downright strange, majolica
gets a thorough examination in a forthcoming exhibition and its catalogue
Treasury Notes (From our Archives)
With a boost from Broadway, the caretakers of Hamilton Grange cast new light on the charms of Alexander Hamilton’s once bucolic home
Disruption, Sixteenth-Century Style
How the art of El Greco bent every technical rule of Old Masters painting
This Week’s Destinations for Digital Culture
How to engage with the arts on your phone or laptop
In Memoriam: William H. Gerdts
Scholar, curator, writer, teacher, collector, and preeminent historian of American art