The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s latest exhibition From the Spoon to the City: Design by Architects from LACMA’s Collection highlights great design from the 20th century and explores architects’ passion for designing both buildings and their contents. It includes objects by Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Breuer, Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, Michael Graves, and Frank Gehry. The slideshow below …
Celebrating Modernism in Connecticut
Highlighting lesser known modernist works
Rare tables are ‘tops’ at Carlton Hobbs
A new exhibition at the Carlton Hobbs gallery, On Tops: Table Tops from the 2nd Century to the 19th Century, offers a wonderful assortment of tables with some of the most precious and artistic tops ever assembled. Emphasizing extraordinary techniques and materials—from pietra dura (inlay of fine or hardstone) to micromosaic to scagliola (plasterwork in imitation of ornamental stone)—the inventiveness …
Summer in the Adirondacks
An upcoming exhibition at the Adirondack Museum
American Indian painting
A new exhibition at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
On Chintz: A Conversation with Rosemary Crill
An interview with Rosemary Crill, senior curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Arts and crafts silver
The art and craft of collecting silver
Make a date with Henry VIII
How the world celebrated the 500th anniversary of King Henry VIII’s accession to the throne
Fakes and Forgeries at the Brooklyn Museum
An exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum puts authentic works and forgeries together
Unabashed Opulence
An exploration of Medieval art in London and Bruges
