Through remarkable collections and exhibitions, the Center for American Decoys reveals the artistry, innovation, and cultural significance behind one of Illinois’s most distinctive and storied art forms. ⬬
Museums: Founding Home Fronts
The loan of a legendary Jefferson portrait to the Katonah Museum of Art anchors an exhibition exploring how founding families’ domestic lives shaped early American politics.⬬
Ideas: Living Through Art
How Jenness Cortez and Leonard Perlmutter are blending artistic expression and meditation through the new Jenness Cortez Teaching Museum. ⬬
Curious Objects: The Road to Destruction- How one man stole the divine.
Join podcast host Ben Miller in a highly engaging episode with investigative journalist Matthew Campbell discussing an Indiana Jones-esque heist that will have you on the edge of your seat all the way through. ⬬
Common Threads
America 250 at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art reframes
national identity through material culture and shared histories. ⬬
Museums: Little Boxes
Historic Bethlehem provides a rare peek inside a vault of antique dollhouses. ⬬
Museums: Wood and Water
A new exhibition places Long Island at the center of a global web of furniture-making, trade, and cultural exchange. ⬬
Ideas: Material Culture
A conversation on quilts and craft between Emily Adams Bode Aujla, founder and designer of Bode, and Emelie Gevalt of the American Folk Art Museum.⬬
Flea Bite: Found Photography
An unexpected flea market discovery uncovers a hidden world of friendship, self-expression, and the enduring emotional power of vernacular photography. ⬬
Liberty in the Heart of America
How an unprecedented assemblage of more than two hundred rare, original American founding documents, objects, and artworks came together in an exhibition guest curated by Ken Burns.⬬