The Wickham Sideboard Returns
by Christina Keyser Vida On a lovely September day in Richmond, VA, last fall, members of the Decorative Arts Trust visited the Valentine Museum for tours of the galleries, the Court End neighborhood, and the museum’s Wickham House, built between 1811...
The Gregory Gift: New Decorative Arts Exhibition at Frick Madison
by Marie-Laure Buku Pongo Currently on display at Frick Madison, the temporary home of The Frick Collection, is a varied assemblage of decorative objects from the bequest of Alexis Gregory, the founder of Vendome Press and a longtime friend of the...
Indigenous Imagination as Revolution: ‘Shaped by the Loom’ Opens at the Bard Graduate Center
by Juliana Fagua Arias “When we sit at our loom, we sit at the universe.” Such were the words that 5th-generation Diné (Navajo) master weaver Lynda Teller Pete used to describe the profound significance of weaving and textiles in the North American...
Should We Exalt Individual Designers? A New Book Honors and Challenges the Idea of Women in Design
by Kate Burnett Budzyn Published in January of this year, Women in Design is design historian Anne Massey’s contribution to Thames & Hudson’s World of Art series—a group of slim, easy-to-read, and generously illustrated art historical monographs and...
Investigating a Peculiar Hybrid Chinese Export Lacquer Furniture Object
by Kelly Fu The Decorative Arts Trust’s generous Research Grant supported my preparation for a prize-winning thesis at the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. My project delves into a peculiar object (figures 1 and 2) that amalgamates a...
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Formerly known as the "blog,” the Bulletin features new research and scholarship, travelogues, book reviews, and museum and gallery exhibitions. The Bulletin complements The Magazine of the Decorative Arts Trust, our biannual members publication.