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....
by The Trust | Aug 13, 2021
With Eyes Opened: A Diverse Retrospective on Cranbrook’s Legacy by John-Duane Kingsley Stepping into Cranbrook Art Museum’s retrospective exhibit, With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932, provided both the familiar in the icons of Cranbrook’s rich...
by The Trust | Apr 7, 2021
The Art of Jade: An Exhibition at the Flint Institute of Arts by John-Duane Kingsley The Art of Jade on display at the Flint Institute of Arts from August 15, 2020, through May 23, 2021, provides an intercontinent overview of jade’s cultural significance and...
by The Trust | Mar 24, 2021
The Brilliant Quilts of Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective at BAMPFA by Kate Burnett Budzyn One of the most relevant and sustaining decorative arts exhibitions of the COVID era has been Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)’s retrospective of the...
