Curious Objects: “Where the Past Never Gets Old”—Re-presenting History at Colonial Williamsburg

Benjamin Miller and Michael Diaz-Griffith Curious Objects

In this episode of Curious Objects, Michael Diaz-Griffith treks to Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia to talk with chief curator Ron Hurst about a new exhibition at the DeWitt Wallace Museum of Decorative Arts.

Art of the South at Colonial Williamsburg

Editorial Staff Art, Exhibitions, Furniture & Decorative Arts

It’s been more than half a century since the groundbreaking Loan Exhibition of Southern Furniture 1640-1820 held at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 1952, and much has happened since then, not just in the study of southern furniture but of the decorative arts of the re­gion as a whole.  It is time, indeed, to re­visit the subject on …

Williamsburg Forum 2011

Editorial Staff Calendar

Colonial Williamsburg will convene its sixty-third annual Antiques Forum between February 20 and 24, 2011. The theme this year, Decorative Arts Forensics: How We Know What We Know, is intended to shed light on some of the fascinating advances in techniques for historical research and scientific investigation that have opened new avenues of verification for curators, collectors, and scholars. The …