For decades, Kelly and Randall Schrimsher have acquired the best of the best in early nineteenth-century American furniture. Now, much of their collection has a period-appropriate showcase in Charleston, South Carolina.
Trail of Tiles
A fantasia in ceramic, Leighton House in London testifies to the decorative sense of its namesake builder, artist Frederic Leighton, and the craftsmanship of William De Morgan.
Exhibitions: Tales from the Other Side
For the unbeliever, the skeptic, the misanthrope, few movements could elicit greater disdain than the spiritualism that arose in the late 1840s and swept through American society into the 1920s.
Exhibitions: Hold the World in Your Hands
That’s the idea behind a new exhibition at Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: John Smart: Virtuoso in Miniature, on view to January 4, 2026.
Exhibitions: Due North at the Met
A show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates (if a year late) the 250th anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich in 1774.
Swing City
The keen eye and advocacy of New York collector and retailer Kathryn Hausman have served to breathe new life into the arts of the Jazz Age, a century on.
Endnotes: A New Day for Traditional Craft
We introduce a curator who will spotlight Indigenous ceramics at the Gardiner Museum.
Exhibitions: Art on the Go
The collection that makes up Puerto Rico’s Museo de Arte de Ponce was assembled by Luis A. Ferré, one of the most interesting men of his age.
Books: Seine Kid
Like a decadent lady cake crafted by the finest chef a Gilded Age heiress could hire, the artwork of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artist Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855–1919) exudes a rich taste.
Exhibitions: Discovering Caillebotte
When it comes to the likes of Monet, Manet, and Renoir, it seems there’s little left to unearth beneath the impressionist sun. But when it comes to Gustave Caillebotte, their less colorful colleague, tales remain to be told.