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 14, 2023
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...
by The Trust | Mar 7, 2023
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...
by The Trust | Mar 3, 2023
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...
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 | Feb 15, 2023
The Conservation Treatment of a Print Depicting Philadelphia’s Bush Hill Estate from the Winterthur Museum by Tammy Hong The interdisciplinary aspects that drive decision-making in art conservation are often described as a three-legged stool. As a second year...
by The Trust | Feb 9, 2023
2023 Colloquium Lecture Recordings Now Online January 22, 2023, marked another successful Emerging Scholars Colloquium, this time in the stunning Board of Officers Room at New York City’s Park Avenue Armory, home of The Winter Show. The room is one of the few...
by The Trust | Feb 1, 2023
Winter 2022-23 Magazine Articles Now Online We are receiving rave reviews of our most recent issue of The Magazine of the Decorative Arts Trust, one of our most popular member benefits. The print issue is mailed directly to Trust members twice a year. Please enjoy...