Specialists from auction houses around the country tell us about choice lots in their upcoming sales
Personal Space: Synapse Judgment
A neuroscientist ponders the collecting impulse.
When the Bauhaus came to Monte Albán (From our Archives)
To many, the Alberses were the embodiment of forward-thinking modernity. And yet, to a surprising degree, they were inspired by ancient art.
Cajun and Creole, the rough and the fine (From our Archives)
Over the past ten years Wade Lege has rescued some of the disappearing landmarks of his native Louisiana
Farther afield: The Young and the Youngs
How a London gallery promotes a dialogue between historical and contemporary art
Looking both ways: A Pennsylvania collection keeps present and past in constant touch (From our Archives)
“My husband said the house screamed for antique furniture–but I have a hard time with sameness.”
Superfluity & Excess: Quaker Philadelphia falls for classical splendor (From our Archives)
By the middle of the eighteenth century the “greene Country Towne” founded by William Penn in 1682 was bustling with commercial and social activity
The (America) House that Mrs. Webb Built (From our Archives)
Aileen Osborn Webb (Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb) came from a family of art patrons
Object Lesson: All About the Windsor Chair
The work begins with the riving of logs
Seventeenth-century French enameled watches in the Walters Art Gallery (From our Archives)
In his book Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers, F. J. Britten notes that “watches with enamel painting before 1640 are exceedingly rare”