
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.
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.
Nominations for the $100K Prize for Excellence and Innovation are due by March 31, 2020
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
by Sarah Parks and Catharine Dann Roeber
The compilation and dissemination of decorative arts research increasingly uses digital tools to complement physical publications and exhibitions or to gather information that would otherwise be widely dispersed or hard to access.
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