For readers of this magazine, needlework is a familiar medium for sorrow—seen in the stitched weeping willow trees and gravesites of nineteenth-century mourning embroideries
Ceramics Dynamic: Majolica
Delightful, delirious, and often downright strange, majolica
gets a thorough examination in a forthcoming exhibition and its catalogue
Treasury Notes (From our Archives)
With a boost from Broadway, the caretakers of Hamilton Grange cast new light on the charms of Alexander Hamilton’s once bucolic home
Disruption, Sixteenth-Century Style
How the art of El Greco bent every technical rule of Old Masters painting
This Week’s Destinations for Digital Culture
How to engage with the arts on your phone or laptop
In Memoriam: William H. Gerdts
Scholar, curator, writer, teacher, collector, and preeminent historian of American art
Looking back at Byrdcliffe
The idealism that sparked the arts and crafts movement born in the late nineteenth century prompted many utopian attempts at communal living and making.
Cosmopolitan Craftsman
The story of Tiffany’s erudite and imaginative silver designer of
the late nineteenth century, Edward C. Moore
More Destinations for Digital Culture
See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world
Radical: Italian Design at MFAH
Utopian ideals took center stage at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston with the February opening of Radical: Italian Design, 1965-1985, The Dennis Freedman Collection