New Books on Dealers and Collectors
We review Duveen Brothers and the Market for Decorative Arts, 1880–1940 by Charlotte Vignon and Inside the Head of a Collector: Neuropsychological Forces at Play by Shirley M. Mueller, MD.
Tributes to Retiring Governor Helen Scott Reed
Board Governor Helen Scott Reed was the primary driving force behind the creation of the Study Trip Abroad program and has led dozens of programs across Europe.
Trust Creates New Prize to Support Major Projects in the Arts
Nominations for the $100K Prize for Excellence and Innovation are due by March 31, 2020
A Rare Glimpse into Two Masters’ Lives: Exploring the Charles and Ray Eames House
BY RACHEL POOL
Charles and Ray Eames’s Case Study House #8 in Pacific Palisades, CA, is an example of modern American architecture in its most functional form.
A Chamber Pot in New Orleans: Spanish Majolica and the Early Creole City
BY CHRISTOPHER GRANT
Excavations at the site of the former Tremé plantation in New Orleans are turning up rare and notable artifacts from the city’s Spanish past, including a blue-green bacín, the majolica vessel type affectionately known as the “Spanish chamber pot.”
Examining Edgefield Stoneware at The Met
BY KATHERINE C. HUGHES
The majority of my work has revolved around The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition of 19th-century alkaline-glazed stoneware from South Carolina’s Old Edgefield District.
Photography & Folk Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
BY ELIZABETH MCGOEY & ELIZABETH SIEGEL
This fall, the Art Institute of Chicago will open an exhibition, Photography & Folk Art: Looking for America in the 1930s, that explores the connections between the fields of folk art and documentary photography in the Depression era for the first time.
Made in New York City at the American Folk Art Museum
THE EXHIBITION MADE IN NEW YORK CITY: THE BUSINESS OF FOLK ART is on view at the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) through July 28, 2019. The exhibit includes 100 hundred works by self-taught artists from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries and highlights the history of New York City as a financial and commercial capital.
