An introduction to artist Edward Lange, entrepreneurial 19th century painter of Long Island townscapes
Prairie Pearl
On the Purcell-Cutts House in Minneapolis
Yesterday and Today: Art and Design (Part I)
An art historian muses on affinities between works of contemporary and early modern decorative arts
Through the Looking Glass
On the Victorian era’s fascination with microscopes and all they revealed
This Other Eden
A history of Exbury Gardens, the Rothschild family’s vibrant demi-paradise in southern England
Marriage à la Mode
Design styles from art nouveau to modernism informed the intertwined legacy of Hector and Adeline Guimard
Black dolls
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