Exhibits

Decorative Arts Shine at the Reopened Frick

BY MARIE-LAURE BUKU PONGO

The Frick Collection recently reopened its doors following a significant renovation, marking a true milestone in the institution’s 90-year history. This project not only restored familiar spaces on the first floor of our historic home on New York City’s Upper East Side but also unveiled the second floor to the public for the first time.

The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick

BY AMANDA C. BURDAN AND EMILY ZILBER

The Brandywine Museum of Art’s new exhibition, “The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick,” explores the interdisciplinary creativity of Wharton Esherick (1887–1970), the famed American artist and designer renowned for his expressive approach to wood, his favored medium.

Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800: Highlights from LACMA’s Collection

BY THE SAINT LOUIS ART MUSEUM

This summer, the Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) is hosting the exhibition ‘Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800: Highlights from LACMA’s Collection,’ which features more than 100 works drawn from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s notable collection of Spanish colonial art.

The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home

BY R. TRIPP EVANS

Historic New England invites visitors into the private world of four “bachelor-aesthetes,” men who defined American style from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age yet whose lives have remained, until now, mostly in shadow.

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.