Humor and chamberpots in this edition of Critical thinking | Difficult issues.
THE ONTEORA CLUB
At the northern end of the Catskills sits a mountainside social enclave with a peerless artistic and literary pedigree
Museum visit: New York’s Merchant’s House Museum
A slice of upper-class nineteenth-century life on the lower east side
Living Large
What our magazine’s long-running and most popular feature series “Living with Antiques,” tells us about time, taste, and our mercurial rapport with the material realm
Huey, Dewey, and Louis XV
A current exhibition explores the French decorative arts of the ancien régime and the animated world of Walt Disney
Women and the Art of the People
As the American Folk Art Museum enters its 7th decade, a salute to the women who made the institution and its collection great
Current and coming: In Florida, Picasso in Sunny climes
An upcoming exhibition at the Dalí Museum explores Picasso’s ties to northern Spain and the south of France
Curious Objects: Once Upon a Bowl: Recovering a Lost Piece of NYC History
Everybody’s got that object in their life: something that’s been around for awhile, maybe since you were a kid, maybe you got it from your parents, maybe they got it from theirs, and somewhere along the line everyone kind of forgot where it came from in the first place…
Openings and Closings: January 26 to February 1
Check out what’s going on this week at museums across the country!
Current and coming: The divine darkness of Ralph Eugene Meatyard
A new exhibition at the Speed Museum of Art