Stair Galleries hosted two sales from the legendary holdings of collector and interior designer extraordinaire Mario Buatta, who passed away in 2018
The British are Coming (Back) at Colonial Williamsburg
If you’ve listened to our podcast, Curious Objects, you probably already know about the exhibition inaugurating the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s renovated and enlarged art museums
Michael Diaz-Griffith Announced as Executive Director of the Soane Foundation
Formerly associate executive director—and current steering committee member—of the Winter Show, Diaz-Griffith is also a member of the Society of Architectural Historians, the Decorative Arts Trust, and the Royal Oak Foundation.
Facing the Past
Ultimately, caricature is a failure of the imagination
Editor’s Letter–March/April 2020
If the Winter Show were a person, it would be one who is curious, intelligent, openminded, sophisticated in taste, generous of spirit, and eager to learn.
The Other Side of History
Michelson’s work introduces the history of Native Americans during the Revolutionary War, using video, sound, print, and AR to reveal forgotten layers of the past.
Less Than Mint Condition
About a decade ago, when I worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, a little joke was making the rounds.
In Defense of Ornament
Is less more? Or is too much never enough?
A Moon with a View
An itsy-bitsy sphere just outside my window, motionless, tucked into the velvety blackness of space. That is how Michael Collins remembers the earth as seen from lunar orbit.
Editor’s Letter–November/December 2019
Last autumn in this space I wrote about some of the younger folks I have been pleased and heartened to meet in the course of my work—still in their twenties and with a deep, abiding interest in the fine and decorative arts and architecture of the past.