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The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum Goes to New York

by The Trust | Jan 5, 2017

By LAURA PASS BARRY,
Juli Grainger Curator of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is pleased to commence 60th-anniversary celebrations for the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum (AARFAM) in New York this January.

Great Fortune on Both Sides of the Pond

by The Trust | Jan 5, 2017

By DR. ROSIE MILLS,
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Associate Curator, Decorative Arts and Design, LACMA

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) have collaborated since 2010 to bring more than fifty works from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection back to California.

Yale Showcases Rhode Island Furniture

by The Trust | Jun 28, 2016

In August, the Yale University Art Gallery will open the first major exhibition of early Rhode Island furniture in half a century. Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830 illustrates Rhode Island’s standing at the center of a dynamic and active cabinetmaking trade…

Collaboration in Contemporary Ceramics

by The Trust | Jun 28, 2016

Duality, an exhibition currently on view at the Delaware Art Museum, highlights contemporary fine and decorative arts created by couples who synthesize their respective areas of expertise and examines the poignant and aesthetic effects that arise through such intimate...

The Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery Reopens

by The Trust | Mar 28, 2016

The Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC, reopened to the public on November 13, 2015 following a comprehensive two-year renovation. The Renwick is home to the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection of contemporary craft and decorative art, one of the finest and...

The Newly Restored Milwaukee Art Museum

by The Trust | Mar 28, 2016

The Milwaukee Art Museum reopened to the public on November 24, 2015, after a multi-year, $34 million renovation project. The Museum’s main galleries, the 1957 Eero Saarinen-designed War Memorial Center and the David Kahler addition from 1975, were restored and...

Classical Splendor at the PMA

by The Trust | Mar 28, 2016

As part of a series of exhibitions celebrating great American art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will mount the much-anticipated show on painted furniture made in Philadelphia in 1808. Classical Splendor: Painted Furniture for a Grand Philadelphia House will open in...

Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia

by The Trust | Mar 9, 2016

EXHIBITION REVIEW
By Christian Roden

Of the many eye-catching objects on display in “Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia,” at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, one that commands particular attention is a large desk and bookcase, completely covered in…