Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Curious Objects”
In this special bonus episode of Curious Objects, Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Abraham Thomas, ceramist Roxanne Jackson, and painter Andrew LaMar Hopkins join host Benjamin Miller onstage at the 2022 edition of the Winter Show to grapple with the legacy of Walter Benjamin’s famous 1935 essay “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”
Bogus Cinderellas and Curated Curios
A sneak peek at our upcoming Digital Doings
Everybody’s got that object in their life: something that’s been around for awhile, maybe since you were a kid, maybe you got it from your parents, maybe they got it from theirs, and somewhere along the line everyone kind of forgot where it came from in the first place…
James Boening, director of James Robinson, Inc., and Craig Kent, workshop manager in Sheffield, come on the pod to dish about the vital importance of age-old processes
Ellery Foutch speaks about Henry Sheldon’s “relic Windsor chair” (and more!)
Interior decorator Thomas Jayne suggests another way to put together the spaces we live in
A look at current and upcoming episodes of our podcast, Curious Objects
In mid-May, two paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe sold at auction, one in each of the world’s top sales rooms
During the Great Depression, the WPA funded an interracial labor program in Wisconsin that employed over five thousand women to craft handmade goods