Interior monologues
by Isabelle Anscombe
Interior monologues: Isabelle Anscombe admires the Geffrye Museum's exploration of images of Victorian interiors and gardens, which reveals the value judgements implicit in every detail, from wallpaper patterns to flowers Read More
First day of school:
Welcome students with read-alouds and colorful, confidence-building crafts
Read aloud First Day, Hooray! by Nancy Poydar (Holiday House, 1999). Then have children make pocket puppets to share their excitement about the first day of school.. Read More
Furniture designed at the Byrd Cliffe Arts and Crafts Colony
by Robert Edwards
Since the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to the Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony in Woodstock, New York, in 1984 and 1985, the furniture produced there has been of great interest to students of the arts and crafts movement in the United States. Read More
Composing a Classic
by Diane Carrol
Philip Kirk can tell the tale of the day he walked into a salvage sale and came out with a fine, nineteenth-century English sideboard, his wallet only slightly slimmer for the transaction. Craig Schumacher can recount how he discovered antique Chinese trunks in the aisles of a home improvement store. Read More
Bliss over all
by Wade Saunders
The 44-year-old Austrian sculptor and draftsman Elmar Trenkwalder has shown widely in Europe over the past decade, yet his oeuvre shares little with that of other artists now in international view. Read More
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