Trail of Tiles
by Anna Sui with Daniel Robbins
A fantasia in ceramic, Leighton House in London testifies to the decorative sense of its namesake builder, artist Frederic Leighton, and the craftsmanship of William De Morgan.
Ready to Wear
by Sarah Davis
One of the most discerning collectors of costume jewelry is fashion designer Norma Kamali, who has been snapping up lux and creative examples from around the world since the 1960s.
A String of Pearls in a Shoebox
by Marie Penny
In a radiantly decorated and appointed turn-of-the-century tea house on a Long Island estate, the vision of American artist and Elsie de Wolfe protégé Everett Shinn stands revealed.
Objects: String Theory - Once more familiar than the harpsichord, the salterio is being rediscovered by musicians drawn to its complexity, history, and spellbinding sound. ⬬
EndNotes: A Museum for Past and Future - Look—across the pond. He’s young, he’s smart, and uncommonly poised. If he’s not Superman, who is? ⬬
Museums: New Leaders Take The Reins At The Expanded Frick Collection - With an incoming director and the institution’s first two curators of color, the reopening museum is in capable new hands.⬬
Books: Gems and Drama on Fifth Avenue - The story of Marcus and Co. is a dream script for a Julian Fellowes series. ⬬
Exhibitions: Georgian Portraiture in New Haven - If Mitt Romney had beaten Barack Obama in 2012, he would have the distinction of being the only American president with an important Old Master painter in his ancestry, having descended from George Romney, one of the finest portraitists in eighteenth-century England and the subject of the new exhibition, Romney: Brilliant Contrasts in Georgian England, at the Yale Center for British Art. ⬬
Exhibitions: Where Wast Thou - Posters calling for federal farm benefits. A warning that “Inflation means Depression.” ⬬
Exhibitions: Art Forms of Nature - In Jan van Kessel’s Noah’s Family Assembling Animals before the Ark, the antediluvian world is presented as Earth in need of a hyper-taxonomy, rather than the biblical drama of destruction. ⬬
Exhibitions: Marsden Hartley in New Mexico - For someone who proudly called himself the “painter of Maine,” Marsden Hartley certainly strayed far from the part of the world where he was born and raised and where he died. ⬬
Collecting: First Pick - In their own words: Objects of obsession from a group of young collectors at the forefront of a new collecting culture. Nautilus shell lamps by Moritz Hacker ⬬
Collecting: First Pick - In their own words: Objects of obsession from a group of young collectors at the forefront of a new collecting culture. Vintage Gold Dress ⬬
Perspectives: Possessed - Artist Pablo Bronstein on collecting as a form of self-fashioning—baroque, compulsive, occasionally corrosive, but ultimately irresistible. ⬬
LIVING WITH ANTIQUES
Habitat for Humanity
By Stacy C. Hollander with photography by Ellen McDermott and Bridget Sciales
