by The Trust | Jul 18, 2023
Atwater Kent Collection Shared Through Drexel-PAFA Partnership by Matthew A. Thurlow A strategic partnership between Drexel University and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) has created the opportunity to store, study, and display the Atwater Kent...
by The Trust | Apr 18, 2023
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...
by The Trust | Apr 11, 2023
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...
by The Trust | Mar 1, 2023
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...
by The Trust | Jun 27, 2022
Louis C. Tiffany and Latin America: A New Installation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Juliana Fagua Arias In the 1960s, The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired a collection of watercolors from the studios of Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933). These design...
by The Trust | Feb 18, 2022
Assemblage & Resilience: Techniques of Art Making in the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Collection by John-Duane Kingsley Within the canon of western art history, the technique of assemblage, or creating art out of disparate quotidian objects to form a collage,...
by The Trust | Feb 15, 2022
It’s Disney, and It Is Worth a Visit: The Animation of French Decorative Arts on Display at The Met by Juliana Fagua Arias In 2003, Bogota’s Museum of Modern Art (MamBo) faced controversy over Barbies Collection, an exhibition curated by none other than the museum’s...
by The Trust | Nov 1, 2021
A Fantastical World of Toxic Beauty: Majolica Mania at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery by Juliana Fagua Arias Griffen, Smith & Co., “Shell” ware, c. 1879–90, Phoenixville, PA. Earthenware with majolica glazes. Private collection, most ex coll. Dr. Howard Silby....
