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The Folded Spaces of Two Pueblan Colonial Desks

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.

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New Books on Dealers and Collectors

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.

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Examining Edgefield Stoneware at The Met

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.

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Photography & Folk Art at the Art Institute of Chicago

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.

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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

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