Editor-in-chief Mitch Owens introduces the September/October 2024 issue.
Field Notes: Heavenly Visions
The legendary sect’s short-lived “gift drawings” of Shaker women are a hypnotic and still puzzling cornucopia of rapturous color and mysterious coding.
Consolation Prizes
An exhibition at Frederic Church’s Olana highlights the nineteenth-century culture of memory and memorial.