A cookbook collector catalogues a few of the many volumes that have helped him explore and enjoy the byways of American cuisine.
Museum visit: An Educational Étouffée
On the culinary cultural buffet that is the Southern Food and Beverage Museum in New Orleans.
Curator’s pick: A Winged Wineglass at Winterthur
Curator Leslie B. Grigsby describes the wineglass that stole her heart.
Food for Thought
A current exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum examines the many meanings of the edible in art.
Current and coming: Table manners at the Bard Graduate Center
Early modern traditions of European dining service and spectacle are examined at the Bard Graduate Center.
In the galleries: The American West at Wigmore
The New York gallery D. Wigmore Fine Art has a special talent for discovering affinities and relationships between works of art from disparate eras and in different styles, and the gallery’s current exhibition—The Changing West: 1865 to 1965—is another potent manifestation of that ability.
Field notes: Facing Unpleasant Facts
On John James Audubon (1785–1851) and John Muir (1838–1914), both of whom have come in for an overdue reckoning…
The Finest Piece of Walnut Furniture of its Type
An excerpt from the new book English Furniture 1680–1760, The Percival D. Griffiths Collection examines the famed Dickinson desk and bookcase.
Current and coming: Helen LaFrance at the Speed
While not exceedingly well known, Kentucky native Helen LaFrance was one of the most gifted and prolific self-taught artists of the past century…
A Venetian Master Reconsidered
Few painters have experienced as great a fluctuation in their posthumous fortunes as Vittore Carpaccio, the subject of a current exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC…