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An exploration of a group of boxed glass vessels and the networks of distribution that connected them from the Red Sea to the courts of Southeast and East Asia.
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Treating writing as a “cultural technique,” this article investigates writing in material culture in Arabia from the sixth to the eighth century CE.
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An examination of the display and treatment by the British of the Koh-i-Noor diamond with an emphasis on the feminization of the jewel, the Indian subcontinent, and Queen Victoria herself.
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Color Reproductions of Mexican Frescoes by Diego Rivera was a relatively small MoMA exhibition that has been largely overlooked by scholars of modern art and design.
Notes from the Field
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Exhibition NotesEaglemania: Collecting Japanese Art in Gilded Age America
A monumental Meiji-era bronze sculpted eagle with a nine-foot wingspan broods over the Daley Family Gallery at the McMullen Museum of Art. Now restored to its original appearance, for decades the eagle hid in plain sight atop a granite column on the Boston College campus…
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Exhibition NotesPhyllida Barlow—tilt
Until she represented the United Kingdom at the Venice Biennale in 2017, Phyllida Barlow could scarcely be said to have been a star in the contemporary art world.
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Book ReviewOn Display: Henrietta Maria and the Materials of Magnificence at the Stuart Court
The narrative of the life of Henrietta Maria, the youngest daughter of Henri IV of France, was charged politically from the moment of her birth in the Louvre in Paris in 1609.
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Book ReviewThe Manufacture des meubles de la couronne aux Gobelins under Louis XIV: A Social, Political and Cultural History
The craftsmen of the Royal Gobelins Factory have little independent identity in the history of the decorative arts, even though they were among the greatest practitioners of their day—and that was precisely what the French monarchy intended.
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Book ReviewMaking Magnificence: Architects, Stuccatori and the Eighteenth-Century Interior
In October 1750, George Stone, the Archbishop of Armagh, accompanied by William and John Ponsonby, made a hasty and unannounced visit to the Earl of Tyrone’s mansion…