BY R. TRIPP EVANS
Historic New England invites visitors into the private world of four “bachelor-aesthetes,” men who defined American style from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age yet whose lives have remained, until now, mostly in shadow.
BY MARGARET GAERTNER AND KATHLEEN CRISCITIELLO
The Center for Painted Wall Preservation (CPWP) is dedicated to the research and preservation of 18th- and 19th-century American paint-decorated plaster walls. As part of its mission to document and encourage appreciation of this vulnerable and increasingly rare art form, CPWP identified 40 of the best surviving examples in New England and upstate New York and commissioned photographer Michael Wasserman to photograph and digitally scan 20 of these interiors.
BY DAMIËT SCHNEEWEISZ
Miniatures have long held a great capacity for circum-oceanic movement and engagement. In museum collections, these small portrait-objects have straddled the worlds of decorative and fine art and jewelry. They are difficult to categorize, often painted on sheets of vellum or ivory with watercolors and set with hairwork in oft-bedazzled lockets that could be worn or carried on the body.
BY LEA C. STEPHENSON
Across the late-19th-CENTURY Anglophone world, artists and collectors fabricated Orientalist fantasies of Egypt as part of a phenomenon that became known as Egyptomania. This sensation included an embodied and material engagement with the modern North African Middle East and the ancient Islamic empire.
BY JESSIE DEAN
‘Ceramic Art’ is the first volume in Princeton University Press’s ART/WORK series, which invites readers to reconsider a section of art history through the lens of materials and conservation. The eight essays in this anthology, edited by Caroline Fowler and Ittai Weinryb, demonstrate the enchanting and elusive nature of ceramics across time and cultures.
FALL SYMPOSIUM
November 6–10, 2024
SOJOURN
September 4–8, 2024
SPRING SYMPOSIUM
April 17–21, 2024
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