Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread
BY REED GOCHBERG
The Concord Museum’s special exhibition 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘯: 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯’𝘴 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 features samplers made by young women during the 18th and 19th centuries in Middlesex County, MA.
A Million Hidden Stories: Uncovering Materials at the New Orleans Museum of Art
BY LAURA OCHOA RINCON
Thanks to my Decorative Arts Trust Curatorial Fellowship, I have learned an extraordinary amount in my first year about glass, rings, fashion, and how all of these different objects are ways to convey stories about people.
Argonaut: Dorothy Liebes and the Brussels Universal Exposition
BY SUSAN BROWN AND ALEXA GRIFFITH WINTON
Dorothy Liebes is featured in a Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum exhibition covering her many accomplishments, including the Argonaut textile for the United States Pavilion at the Brussels Universal Exposition—Expo ’58.
Chronicles of a Global East: Seattle Art Museum Exhibition Examines Silk Roads and Maritime Routes
BY FOONG PING
Chronicles of a Global East, an ongoing exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum, narrates a few of the many stories related to the Silk Roads and maritime routes, where innumerable transnational artistic traditions emerged.
Luxury and Passion: Inventing French Porcelain at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
BY WILLIAM KEYSE RUDOLPH
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s ‘Luxury and Passion: Inventing French Soft-Paste Porcelain’ exhibition uses nearly two dozen works from the Museum’s small but high-quality collections of 18th-century French soft-paste porcelain to trace the development of porcelain in France.
Scandinavian Design and the United States: Cultural Exchanges From 1890–1980
REVIEW: 2022 SPECIAL PROGRAM
Hear Me Now: The Met’s Landmark Exhibition of Ceramics from the Edgefield District
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s landmark exhibition “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina” focuses on the work of African American potters in the 19th-century American South, in dialogue with contemporary artistic responses.
Crafting Freedom: The Life and Legacy of Free Black Potter Thomas W. Commeraw
BY MARGI HOFER AND ALLISON ROBINSON
The New-York Historical Society has organized the first exhibition devoted to the life and work of Thomas W. Commeraw, a Manhattan stoneware potter whose racial identity and remarkable story were long lost to history.
