With the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert Frank roamed the United States in 1955 and ’56 in a Ford coupe, capturing some 2,800 documentary images on his Leica 35mm camera.
Editor’s Letter–September/October 2019
The cover for this issue is fun, charming, and cheerful, and there are very few occasions, in my estimation, on which fun, charm, and cheer are not welcome
New and on view at the American Folk Art Museum
The want for space is now being addressed at the museum’s main exhibition site at 2 Lincoln Square in Manhattan, with the inauguration of new “gallery”
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 8/26/19–9/1/19
See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world
Charles Radtke Knows Exactly What He’s Doing
It’s all about the details for this Wisconsin cabinetmaker
Two Journeys, One Destination
The consummation of an immigrant odyssey, the Vilcek Foundation charts the artistic argosy of Ralston Crawford in the inaugural exhibition at its new home
Two Gems of Charm City
The Walters and the Baltimore Museum of Art form a powerful cultural tandem
Portraits by a Minister’s Daughter
New scholarship offers insights into the life of the elusive early American artist Mary B. Tucker
Come in for a landing at the TWA hotel
The iconic TWA Flight Center is back in business after a renovation that makes it the centerpiece of a new hotel and hospitality complex.
Uncommon Threads
A gallery in the Connecticut countryside puts the leading lights of fiber art front and center