The artist’s original painting used in a liquor ad comes up for auction in Chicago
A rediscovered Delacroix debuts in Houston
Today, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston unveiled its latest acquisition: a newly rediscovered smaller and earlier version of Eugène Delacroix’s masterpiece Women of Algiers in Their Apartment
Assessing Early Newcomb Pottery
Fifty-one years ago, this publication introduced many readers to the Newcomb Pottery in a short article based on what had been learned to that date about the first decades at the New Orleans ceramics enterprise founded in 1895.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s North Entrance Reopens
Visitors can now enter the museum from Kelly Drive, and peruse a new gift shop, an espresso bar, and education facilities
Robert Frank, photographer (1924–2019)
With the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert Frank roamed the United States in 1955 and ’56 in a Ford coupe, capturing some 2,800 documentary images on his Leica 35mm camera.
Editor’s Letter–September/October 2019
The cover for this issue is fun, charming, and cheerful, and there are very few occasions, in my estimation, on which fun, charm, and cheer are not welcome
New and on view at the American Folk Art Museum
The want for space is now being addressed at the museum’s main exhibition site at 2 Lincoln Square in Manhattan, with the inauguration of new “gallery”
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 8/26/19–9/1/19
See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world
Charles Radtke Knows Exactly What He’s Doing
It’s all about the details for this Wisconsin cabinetmaker
Two Journeys, One Destination
The consummation of an immigrant odyssey, the Vilcek Foundation charts the artistic argosy of Ralston Crawford in the inaugural exhibition at its new home