In Jan van Kessel’s Noah’s Family Assembling Animals before the Ark, the antediluvian world is presented as Earth in need of a hyper-taxonomy, rather than the biblical drama of destruction. ⬬
Exhibitions: Marsden Hartley in New Mexico
For someone who proudly called himself the “painter of Maine,” Marsden Hartley certainly strayed far from the part of the world where he was born and raised and where he died. ⬬
Collecting: First Pick
In their own words: Objects of obsession from a group of young collectors at the forefront of a new collecting culture. Nautilus shell lamps by Moritz Hacker ⬬
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 Gold Dress ⬬
Perspectives: Possessed
Artist Pablo Bronstein on collecting as a form of self-fashioning—baroque, compulsive, occasionally corrosive, but ultimately irresistible. ⬬
Field Notes: Reading The Room
Period rooms have always told stories. The question is—whose? ⬬
Exhibitions: Body Language
An exciting new exhibition awaits at Historic Deerfield in Massachusetts.
The Patient Collector
With modest means and fifty-five years of persistence, a Maine state employee built a remarkable collection—and a legacy— one or two objects at a time.
From The Guest Editor’s Attic – Michael Diaz-Griffith
If you are reading this letter, chances are you’ve already caught the collecting bug—or perhaps, like me, you were born ill with it. If that’s you: welcome. You are among friends.
Books: Silver Standard
Beautifully produced and informative, Wiwen Nilsson is the first English-language monograph on the Swedish silversmith, designer, jeweler, and sculptor Karl Edvin Nilsson.