The 1940s are about as far back as the living can remember, yet no era could be more resistant to the warm glow of nostalgia. ⬬
Collecting: First Pick
In their own words: Objects of obsession from a group of young collectors at the forefront of a new collecting culture. Vintage Flapper Dress. ⬬
Collecting: First Pick
In their own words: Objects of obsession from a group of young collectors at the forefront of a new collecting culture. Skaters on a Canal near the Plomptoren in Utrecht by Salomon van Ruysdael. ⬬
Collecting: First Pick
In their own words: Objects of obsession from a group of young collectors at the forefront of a new collecting culture. Mahogany Desk. ⬬
Objects: String Theory
Once more familiar than the harpsichord, the salterio is being rediscovered by musicians drawn to its complexity, history, and spellbinding sound. ⬬
EndNotes: A Museum for Past and Future
Look—across the pond. He’s young, he’s smart, and uncommonly poised. If he’s not Superman, who is? ⬬
Museums: New Leaders Take The Reins At The Expanded Frick Collection
With an incoming director and the institution’s first two curators of color, the reopening museum is in capable new hands.⬬
Books: Gems and Drama on Fifth Avenue
The story of Marcus and Co. is a dream script for a Julian Fellowes series. ⬬
Exhibitions: Georgian Portraiture in New Haven
If Mitt Romney had beaten Barack Obama in 2012, he would have the distinction of being the only American president with an important Old Master painter in his ancestry, having descended from George Romney, one of the finest portraitists in eighteenth-century England and the subject of the new exhibition, Romney: Brilliant Contrasts in Georgian England, at the Yale Center for British Art. ⬬
Exhibitions: Where Wast Thou
Posters calling for federal farm benefits. A warning that “Inflation means Depression.” ⬬