During the Great Depression, the WPA funded an interracial labor program in Wisconsin that employed over five thousand women to craft handmade goods
Curious Objects: Chatting about Museum Health and Georgian Glass
A look at current and upcoming episodes of our podcast
Curious Objects: English Glass/Chinese Craft
The technique of reverse-painting was introduced to China in the late 1600s by its European trading partners
Curious Objects: Bill Traylor on the Silver Screen, with filmmakers Sam Pollard and Jeffrey Wolf
A new documentary tells Bill Traylor’s story on film for the first time
Curious Objects: Museums and the Lure of the Sell-Off, with the PMA’s director and CEO Timothy Rub
The Association of Art Museum Directors killed something of a sacred cow last year
Curious Objects: The Book of Hours: A Medieval Best-Seller
More popular than the Bible: that’s what the richly illustrated volumes known as books of hours
Curious Objects: Corot’s Impressionist Lunchbox
Only nine times in his seventy-eight years did Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot paint on anything other than canvas, paper, and panel
Curious objects: Discussing Craft and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
A look at current and upcoming episodes of our podcast
Curious Objects: Five Hundred Years of American Craft, with Glenn Adamson
Check out what’s new on the podcast this month!
Blended Spirits: A Curious Objects Cocktail Hour at the Winter Show
Winter Show exhibitors Daniel Crouch (Daniel Crouch Rare Books), Carrie Imberman (Kentshire), and Keegan Goepfert (Les Enluminures) joined host Ben Miller for a cocktail hour Zoom chat about alcohol-friendly antiques at the this year’s (virtual) edition of the Winter Show, the year’s premier antiques fair.