The iconic TWA Flight Center is back in business after a renovation that makes it the centerpiece of a new hotel and hospitality complex.
Curious Objects: The Color of Beauty–Philip Hewat-Jaboor’s Neoclassical Vase
This month on Curious Objects, Ben and Michael sit down with Philip Hewat-Jaboor, chairman of Masterpiece London and owner of a fine alabaster and rosso antico marble vase.
Celebrating Walt Whitman’s 200th Birthday
Three New York cultural institutions—the New York Public Library, the Grolier Club, and the Morgan Library and Museum—as well as the Library of Congress, are putting on summer exhibitions to honor the poet of democracy, empathy, and “the body electric.”
The Story of Tools
You’re not a craftsman until you think with the point of your tool,” or so says Sean Sutcliffe, cofounder of the furniture firm Benchmark.
Editor’s Letter: July/August 2019
The Statue of Liberty Museum opened in May on Liberty Island with much fanfare and celebrity wattage, Oprah Winfrey leading the lights.
Uncommon Threads
A gallery in the Connecticut countryside puts the leading lights of fiber art front and center
Dada’s and Surrealism’s Poetic Roots at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco
Both Dadaism and surrealism were movements started not by visual artists but by poets; it was the book, not the canvas, that was terra firma.
Pierre Cardin at the Brooklyn Museum
Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion is on view at the Brooklyn Museum from July 20 to January 5, 2020
At the Cloisters, a treasure concealed is revealed
It is the nature of art history to bring to light beautiful objects that have long lain hidden from sight. This is true of almost every ancient artifact, and many a medieval one, that we admire today. But there is something special about the discovery of the objects to be seen in The Colmar Treasure: A Medieval Jewish Legacy.
A Great Dane in Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston celebrates the work of a master from the “great age of illustration” around the turn of the twentieth century: the Danish artist Kay Nielsen.