SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020
Editor's Letter
Gregory Cerio
Critical Thinking/Difficult Issues
A More Perfect Union
Glenn Adamson
Current and Coming
Farther Afield
Off the Piazza, Another World: Celebrating a Venetian institution, Caffè Florian at 300
James Gardner
Object Lesson
The Sculpture of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle
Museum Visit
Rooms with a Viewpoint: On the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s long-term project to breathe fresh life into its period rooms
Thomas Connors
Connoisseurs Eye
Five Peacocks from Master Enamelist Frank J. Marshall
Joseph Cunningham
On Books
A new book explores the many lives of the Louvre
Wolf Burchard
Past and Present
Teaching Tolerance through the Detritus of Intolerance: Lessons from the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia in Michigan
Elizabeth Pochoda
Endnotes
Hysterical Re-enactors
Eleanor H. Gustafson
Features
The Gentleman from Georgia
Writer and collector William N. Banks Jr., remembered
Laura Beach
Empire Refracted
A forthcoming exhibition and its catalogue examine the social significance of glass in eighteenth-century Britain
John Stuart Gordon
A Visit to Kettle’s Yard
A London folk art dealer reflects on the inspiration he has drawn from the home of a scholar and art collector in Cambridge, England
Robert Young
Simple, Pure, Elegant
On the jewelry designs of modernist master Betty Cooke
Jeannine Falino
Baroque Pearls
A forthcoming exhibition and its catalogue examine the art of the Old Masters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Genoa
James Gardner
The Gardens of Forth House
Keeping the flame of the romantic landscape design tradition in the Hudson River valley
written and photographed by Pieter Estersohn