by The Trust | Aug 11, 2021
August Virtual Tour of the Wharton Esherick Museum On a beautiful summer day the Decorative Arts Trust visited the Wharton Esherick Museum to share a virtual tour. Julie Siglin, Executive Director, and Emily Zilber, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Strategic...
by The Trust | Aug 2, 2021
Summer 2021 Magazine Articles on Website The Magazine of the Decorative Arts Trust is one of our most popular member benefits, and the summer 2021 issue reached members’ mailboxes in July. If you’d like a hard copy, become a member of the Trust today! The Trust...
by The Trust | Jul 26, 2021
Modern Gothic Opens at the Brooklyn Museum by Matthew Thurlow Until recently, exhibition openings remained a quaint concept of the bygone pre-COVIDian era. The arrival of an invitation to attend the June 30 opening of the Brooklyn Museum’s Modern Gothic: The Inventive...
by The Trust | Jul 13, 2021
Will Coleman Shares Virtual Tour of Olana State Historic Site For our July Virtual Tour, the Decorative Arts Trust visited Olana State Historic Site, the extraordinary residence of Frederic Church, one of the premier landscape painters of the 19th century. William L....
by The Trust | Jul 2, 2021
Sarah Grandin and Elizabeth Cleland Discuss Savonnerie Carpet Production in 17th-Century France In our latest virtual dialogue, Sarah Grandin, PhD, Clark-Getty Paper Project Curatorial Fellow at the Clark Art Institute, shared a lecture titled “Trees, Orphans, and the...
by The Trust | Jun 28, 2021
Decorative Arts and the Market Panel Discussion Featuring Dealers On June 21, the Trust hosted the second discussion in our series on decorative arts and the market. This conversation featured dealers of decorative arts and antiquities. Benjamin Miller, host of the...
by The Trust | Jun 24, 2021
Alexandra Kirtley Shares New American Art Galleries at the Philadelphia Museum of Art A lot has changed in the past year. On June 16 the Trust was welcomed back to the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) by Alexandra A. Kirtley, the Montgomery-Garvan Curator of American...
by The Trust | Jun 10, 2021
Xiaoyi Diana Yang and Angelika Kuettner Virtual Dialogue on Zhangzhou Porcelains Xiaoyi Diana Yang, PhD Candidate and Teaching Fellow at the Bard Graduate Center, chose to study Zhangzhou porcelain because she wanted to do something different. On June 3, 2021, Diana...
