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...
Antiques Forum Speakers Lecture about Winterthur, C.A. Haun, and Drayton Hall
The Decorative Arts Trust’s gratitude goes out, once again, to Carolyn and Michael McNamara, who are committed to sharing emerging scholars’ new research through the Young Scholars Lectures at Colonial Williamsburg’s annual Antiques Forum. The format this...
Welcome to New York: The Trust (and Tradition) Returns
In January 2023, the Trust joined peers, partners, and antiques purveyors for Americana Week, the country’s premier antiques and arts showcase. Last year’s postponement of The Winter Show reconfigured the Trust’s plans in 2022, yet 2023 provided a safe and...
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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.