A short history of the Alice Award and this year’s recipient Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South by Mark Sloan and Mark Long.
Woman of the World
Neuville is among the first women artists working in America to leave a substantial body of work. This article sheds light on this fascinating figure, whose life reads like a compelling historical novel.
In memoriam: designer Ingo Maurer
The maker of lamps shaped like broken eggs, shattered plates, and orchids, or swarming with plastic insects, died last week.
Félix Vallotton’s uneasy art at the Met
Born to a conservative Protestant family in Lausanne, Switzerland, Félix Vallotton rather intrepidly moved to Paris in 1882 at the age of sixteen to study art.
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 10/30/19–11/05/19
See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world
Curious Objects: Badger Up! Collecting Baseball-abilia with Internet Star Randall
This month on Curious Objects Ben talks with Randall, the voice behind the viral video The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger, about his baseball card collection
A Short History of Ballparks
The industrial revolution saw several new structure types added to the urban lexicon, including ballparks, which are much on our minds at this time of year
Cameras and Critters
A feeling of intimacy between human beings and animals pervades By Hoof, Wing, Paw, or Fin: Creatures in Photographs, at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 10/23/19–10/29/19
See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world
Studio craft takes wing in San Francisco
The American studio craft movement—which gained momentum in the postwar period and married a devotion to the handmade and honest materials to a fine arts sensibility—flourished particularly vibrantly in California.