ONLINE LEARNING
The Folded Spaces of Two Pueblan Colonial Desks
BY CELIA RODRIGUEZ TEJUCA
I embarked on a trip to Puebla, Mexico, to complete my research on a pair of 18th-century desks and bookcases that reinforce the aesthetic connections between East Asia and the Spanish-American viceroyalties during the colonial period.
A Tale of Two Families: An Engraved Tea Service in Antebellum Georgia
BY KAYLI RIDEOUT
Studying a 19th-century silver tea service from Augusta, GA, bearing the mark of “Clark & Co.” in the MESDA collection further encouraged my exploration in Southern identity studies through material culture.
Trust Announces Curatorial Internship and Failey Grants for 2020
The 2020 Curatorial Internship Grant recipient is the Concord Museum, and the 2020 Failey Grant recipient is the American Swedish Historical Museum.
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.
SAVE THE DATE
- Special Program: Tour of the Newark Museum with retiring Chief Curator Ulysses Dietz November 3
- New York Antiques Weekend January 19-20, 2018
- Emerging Scholars Colloquium January 21, 2018
- Symposium Upper Hudson River Valley: From the Mohawk to the Berkshires May 3-6, 2018
- Symposium New Orleans & the Mississippi Delta November 1-4, 2018
- Study Trip Prague & Vienna with an extension to Budapest With an extension to Budapest October 1–11 and 16–26, 2018; Extension October 12–15