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MESDA’s House Party Exhibition

MESDA’s House Party Exhibition

BY MICHAEL J. BRAMWELL

MESDA’s House Party: R.S.V.P. B.Y.O.B. exhibition engages critically with inequities of power and violence that continue as material and cultural legacies within American decorative arts.

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New Book Explores Luxury after the Terror

New Book Explores Luxury after the Terror

BY IRIS MOON

Luxury After the Terror explores the production, circulation, and survival of French luxury after the death of Louis XVI by focusing on decorative arts makers with strong ties to the monarchy and how they navigated the Terror and the world that it remade.

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Book Review: The Story of the Country House

Book Review: The Story of the Country House

BY JESSIE DEAN

From its charming cover alone, this recent publication from Yale University Press caught our eye, but when multiple members recommended it, we knew The Story of the Country House: A History of Places & People by Clive Aslet was worthy of your attention.

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The Arts & Crafts Experiment of Rose Valley

The Arts & Crafts Experiment of Rose Valley

BY SUE A. KEILBAUGH

In 1901, William Lightfoot Price brought together a group of prosperous Philadelphia free thinkers who enjoyed debating current philosophies of reform with the more informal company of his partners, friends, and relatives whose interests lay primarily in aesthetic matters. The consequence was the start of Price’s experimental utopian community based on the Arts & Crafts Movement.

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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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