An excerpt from the new book English Furniture 1680–1760, The Percival D. Griffiths Collection examines the famed Dickinson desk and bookcase.
Current and coming: Helen LaFrance at the Speed
While not exceedingly well known, Kentucky native Helen LaFrance was one of the most gifted and prolific self-taught artists of the past century…
Object Lesson: Emotion on the Auction Block
When Stair Galleries, an auction house in the small upstate New York city of Hudson, released its catalogue for the sale of famed author Joan Didion’s personal effects, there was one item that immediately caught our eye…
A Venetian Master Reconsidered
Few painters have experienced as great a fluctuation in their posthumous fortunes as Vittore Carpaccio, the subject of a current exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC…
In the galleries: Winfred Rembert
The art of a self-taught giant is on view at Hauser and Wirth.
Current and coming: Wild Things in Columbus, Ohio
In the dozen children’s books he wrote and illustrated—chief among them his best-known and most enduring, Where the Wild Things Are—Maurice Sendak displayed uncommonly deep insight into the youthful psyche…
Curious Objects: BONUS Episode: Collecting Outside the Lines
A few weeks back, Curious Objects host Benjamin Miller participated in a panel discussion at the Winter Show alongside collector Jeremy Simien (former guest of the podcast) and Morgan Library and Museum curator Jesse Erickson…
Field trip: Son et Lumiere, Twenty-First-Century Style
In terms of a cultural trend, something possibly important is afoot in a spectacle titled Gustav Klimt: Gold in Motion, which recently opened in lower Manhattan at the Hall des Lumières…
An Arts and Crafts Arcadia
Whether you know him as an artist, designer, printer, and key figure of the British arts and crafts movement; or as poet, novelist, translator of ancient Icelandic sagas; or as social critic, political activist, and pioneering preservationist, William Morris is one of the most enduring figures of Victorian England…
John Craxton’s Sensuous Odyssey
John Craxton was one of those eccentric British modernists, like his friends and near contemporaries Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland, John Piper, Ivon Hitchens, and Keith Vaughan…