| Hands-On: A Taunton Chest Revisited |
Spring 2007
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When the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, rediscovered their Taunton chest (see Ward), Russell Morash, executive producer and director of The New Yankee Workshop on PBS, recognized it as an ideal piece to reproduce for their television show. Morash, host......
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| Highlight: 15th Annual Newport Symposium |
Spring 2007
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The theme of this year's symposium is...
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| Highlight: Alabama Folk Art |
Spring 2007
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Alabama boasts more folk artists than any other state in the country. Several factors, including a tradition of tolerance of eccentricity and resistance to change, are credited with contributing to the state's rich folk art. This artistic legacy will be c...
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| Highlight: American Furniture 2006 |
Spring 2007
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The 2006 edition of this annual interdisciplinary journal dedicated to advancing knowledge of furniture made or used in the Americas from the seventeenth century to the present includes a tribute to Frank L. Horton, founder of the Museum of Early Southern...
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| Highlight: An Observant Eye -- The Thoreau Collection at the Concord Museum |
Spring 2007
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Most of the household and personal objects belonging to Henry David Thoreau and his family have remained in Concord, Massachusetts, the author's birthplace and home. Objects are not typically associated with the Transcendentalist Thoreau, whose interest.....
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| Highlight: Barcelona and Modernity Gaudi to Dali |
Spring 2007
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Between the hosting of the Universal Exposition in 1888 and the birth of Franco's Fascist regime in 1939, Barcelona was the primary center of radical intellectual, political, and cultural activities in Spain. Picasso, Miro, Dali, and Gaudi are among the.....
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| Highlight: Captured Motion -- The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth |
Spring 2007
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By Janis Conner, Leah Rosenblatt Lehmbeck, Thayer Tolles, and Frank L. Hohmann III. Hohmann Holdings, LLC, New York; Christie's publications. 296 pp., illus., hardcover. $125 plus tax and s/h. Call 800.395.6300 (within the U.S.), or 212.636.2500....
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| Highlight: Celebrating 20 Years William Vareika Fine Arts, Ltd. |
Spring 2007
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Over the past twenty years William Vareika Fine Arts has evolved into one of the leading resources for important eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early-twentieth-century art. Recently doubled in size, the gallery will now exhibit five centuries of world......
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| Highlight: Corcoran Gallery of Art to Host Largest Exhibition of Modernist Art and Design in U.S. |
Spring 2007
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This Spring the Corcoran Gallery of Art is hosting the critically acclaimed exhibition Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939. Originally organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum (VandA) in London, it is the largest and most comprehensive......
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| Highlight: Delaware Clocks |
Spring 2007
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This is the first publication dedicated to the study of this regional mechanical/ furniture form in over one hundred years. The book chronicles the research undertaken for the exhibition, providing an overview of nineteen of the finest timepieces made......
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