A new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society prompts a reprise of one our favorite articles
Across 110th Street
A new exhibition examines the life and work of photographer and writer Carl Van Vechten
Renovated Gowns Counterfeit Corsets
An excerpt from a new book about fashion in the Gilded Age explores the underworld and afterlife of French couture in the United States
Underground Modernist
A current exhibition explores the work of E. McKnight Kauffer
The Eyes Have It
A young antiques dealer and his peers offer their vision for the future of the trade
THE ONTEORA CLUB
At the northern end of the Catskills sits a mountainside social enclave with a peerless artistic and literary pedigree
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
Venice: Through a Glass, and Darkly
An art exhibition in DC explores the desuetude and crystalline rebirth of Venice in the late nineteenth century
Village People
From a new book, a selection of astonishing and charming photographic portraits of country folk in early twentieth-century Sweden