Salem Emerging Scholar Lectures Available Online
During the Decorative Arts Trust’s Fall 2021 Symposium in Salem, we were pleased to welcome two emerging scholars to lecture about their research. Sybil F. Johnson, a PhD Candidate at Boston University, presented the John A.H. Sweeney Emerging Scholar...
Failey Grants Awarded to Author Caitlin Meehye Beach, Historic Rock Ford, and New-York Historical Society
The Decorative Arts Trust’s Failey Grant program supports noteworthy research, exhibition, publication, and conservation projects through the Dean F. Failey Fund, named in honor of the Trust’s late Governor. Preference is given to projects that employ or...
Gilbert-Merrill and Kane Lecture at the 2021 Delaware Antiques Show
The 2021 Delaware Antiques Show was especially significant this year as the event is one of the first large shows to reopen in person. And...
A Fantastical World of Toxic Beauty: Majolica Mania at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery
by Juliana Fagua Arias Walking into Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915 is like falling into the whimsical...
The Crane and the Nopal: Aztec Memory and Chinese Imagery in Talavera Poblana
by Juliana Fagua Arias In the mid-16th century, potters from Puebla, Mexico, developed a type of tin-glazed earthenware known today as Talavera Poblana. Various cultural developments, including the migration of Spanish ceramicists, the transpacific trade...
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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.