by Lauren D. Whitley    Historic Deerfield’s exhibition Body by Design: Fashionable Silhouettes From the Ideal to the Real has generated significant traffic in the newly renovated Textile Gallery since it opened. The show draws on Historic Deerfield’s superb...

by Howard A. Zar    Although largely unknown today, Alexander Jackson Davis was America’s preeminent architect of the first half of the 19th century. Davis came to prominence as practitioner of the Greek Revival style but later initiated the stateside practice of...

by Matthew Skic    Thanks to the generous support of the Decorative Arts Trust through the Dean F.  Failey Fund, the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, PA, was able to accomplish the conservation treatments of two flags for display in the current...

The Newport Historical Society recently launched the exhibition A Name, A Voice, A Life: The Black Newporters of the 17th-19th Centuries (figure 1). Supported in part through a generous grant by the Decorative Art Trust’s Dean F. Failey Fund, this powerful...