In this special bonus episode of Curious Objects, Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Abraham Thomas, ceramist Roxanne Jackson, and painter Andrew LaMar Hopkins join host Benjamin Miller onstage at the 2022 edition of the Winter Show to grapple with the legacy of Walter Benjamin’s famous 1935 essay “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”
End notes: March/April 2022
Kith and Kiln: Making a Gift to Fellow Collectors and Scholars
Object lesson: Ships of Bone and Hair
The art of French prisoners of the postrevolution and Napoleonic wars
Current and coming: All Stars at AFAM
The American Folk Art Museum is celebrating the start of its seventh decade with a power-packed exhibition
On books: March/April 2022
A new authoritative biography of artist Florine Stettheimer
Openings and Closings: June 8 to June 14
Check out what’s going this week on at museums across the country!
Marriage à la Mode
Design styles from art nouveau to modernism informed the intertwined legacy of Hector and Adeline Guimard
Artist profile: Scarves and Stars
The political Americana fashions of Frankie Welch
Current and coming: Redefining American art at the Peabody Essex
A new gallery’s inaugural exhibition questions the definition of “American art.”
Field trip: Resurrection of a Different Sort
A historic church annex in New York becomes a chic nightspot for photography aficionados










