Second Empire France—ruled by Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870—bequeathed a varied and colorful legacy, especially in matters of architecture.
Rokeby: The past is present
In an excerpt from his new book, Life Along the Hudson: The Historic Country Estates of the Livingston Family, Pieter Estersohn examines the rich legacy of one of America’s great houses.
The outsider artist as storyteller
Vestiges & Verse at the American Folk Art Museum
Never done
Depictions of women at work from the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition on American labor
Global exchange
How the craftsmanship of two cultures met in Gorham’s “Japanese Work” silver
A portrait takes shape
The artist Annie Traquair Lang begins to emerge from the shadow of her mentor and paramour, William Merritt Chase.
Tokens of friendship, tools of diplomacy
Presentation medals in the Age of Exploration
Thoroughly Modern Moses
What did Grandma Moses have in common with the likes of Jackson Pollock? Arguably, plenty.
Shattering Effect
A new exhibition celebrates the Crystal Palace and the New York World’s Fair of 1853.
Growing Interests: Expanding the collections at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
In 1926 John D. Rockefeller Jr. formally embarked on the project that would become the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation by purchasing Philip Ludwell’s house of about 1775 on Duke of Gloucester Street. That acquisition, the first “antique” in Colonial Williamsburg’s collection, came to play a pivotal role in the founding of what would eventually be the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum.