Fiction and non- trade shots during the week while the weekend waves hello and goodbye, albeit not in that order. …
Unburied Treasure
The Paston Treasure, the enormous centerpiece of the Yale Center for British Art’s new exhibition The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World, is bursting at the seams…
Going Fourth
It’s hard to overstate Paul Mellon’s contributions to the Yale Center for British Art. …
Watched Pots
Before the telling of names, dates and other facts, before the presentation of insights and analyses, before the giving of credit where credit is due, curators of art exhibits should strive to do what …
Vase to Vase
Every now and then, the Yale Center for British Art artfully challenges your ideas about what’s artful. …
Royal Treatment
Though generations of young American girls have never experienced monarchy, they’ve still wanted to be princesses. Fed by movies, toys and countless other influences, they’ve gotten a vivid and alluring sense of what the title confers: fame, privilege, glamor, luxury.…
Rising Tide
There’s something about the moment of a shipwreck—the strange incongruity of smoke and fire on water, of splintered masts and snapped riggings on glassy sea. …