Independent collector Wade Lege on restoring a Mississippi bayou home and filling it with Americana.
Interpreting the ancient: The Portland Japanese Garden’s new Cultural Village
For me, a foretaste of the evocative new architecture at the Portland Japanese Garden came two years ago during the rice harvest season in a hamlet on the west coast of Japan.
Shadows and scissors
The life and work of Everet Howard, early American silhouette artist.
Re-examining Thomas Cole
A new exhibition explores the global career of one of America’s leading landscape painters.
Quietly magnificent Michelangelo at the Met
Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer is a far more ambitious production than its title would ever suggest.
Critical thinking/Difficult issues: Bearing the weight
The field of decorative arts reflects the inheritance of patriarchy in ways that are rarely acknowledged.
Curious Objects: Stuart Feld on the mistakes collectors make
In the latest episode of our new podcast, Curious Objects, Benjamin Miller interviews Stuart Feld of Hirschl & Adler. In this excerpt, Miller asks Feld about the mistakes he often sees collectors make. The biggest? Bargain-hunting.
Embodied ideals
How John Sloan used the nude as a vehicle for artistic experimentation and political expression.
Take the 3 train (or the 2)
On 135th Street in Harlem, one of New York’s most remarkable public art collections can be seen and studied at the Schomburg Center.
A portrait takes shape
The artist Annie Traquair Lang begins to emerge from the shadow of her mentor and paramour, William Merritt Chase.