For decades, Kelly and Randall Schrimsher have acquired the best of the best in early nineteenth-century American furniture. Now, much of their collection has a period-appropriate showcase in Charleston, South Carolina.
Trail of Tiles
A fantasia in ceramic, Leighton House in London testifies to the decorative sense of its namesake builder, artist Frederic Leighton, and the craftsmanship of William De Morgan.
Exhibitions: Back in Style
Where does a darling of the art deco movement go to retire? For Tamara de Lempicka, once a painter of the rich and famous, known for her evocative cubist-inspired style, it was Cuernavaca, Mexico — by way of Houston, Texas.
Exhibitions: Ties of Friendship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
When Vincent van Gogh set out to make the four portraits of the Roulin family that are the centerpiece of the present show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, he was already an expert landscapist, but was relatively untried in the art of portraiture.
Curious Objects: This Table Came With a Bill of Sale
On the groundbreaking exhibition Fighting for Freedom: Black Craftspeople and the Pursuit of Independence…
Exhibitions: Tales from the Other Side
For the unbeliever, the skeptic, the misanthrope, few movements could elicit greater disdain than the spiritualism that arose in the late 1840s and swept through American society into the 1920s.
Exhibitions: Hold the World in Your Hands
That’s the idea behind a new exhibition at Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: John Smart: Virtuoso in Miniature, on view to January 4, 2026.
Exhibitions: Due North at the Met
A show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates (if a year late) the 250th anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich in 1774.
Swing City
The keen eye and advocacy of New York collector and retailer Kathryn Hausman have served to breathe new life into the arts of the Jazz Age, a century on.
American Treasures
The women of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America have been preserving history since 1891.