Unique Stoneware Jug Depicting Entertainment Acquired
A four-gallon stoneware jug manufactured by Fulper Bros. in Flemington, New Jersey during the 1880s is now part of the New York State Museum’s Weitsman Collection of American Stoneware. Now on display...
View ArticleState Museum to Host Russel Wright Exhibition
An exhibition featuring the work and philosophy of renowned industrial designer Russel Wright will open May 4, 2013 at the New York State Museum. Russel Wright: The Nature of Design explores Wright’s...
View ArticleBrooklyn Museum Renovations Continue
A major new first-floor Brooklyn Museum gallery opened in March with Fine Lines: American Drawings, which will remain on view through May 28. The new 6,000-square-foot space is the latest step in a...
View ArticleAnimal Fancy At The Armory Spring Show, NY
Rosewood Lion. India. Clinton Howell Antiques Lions, toucans, dolphins, dogs, cocks, —- critters galore tread the echoing halls of the Park Avenue Armory in this year’s annual Spring Show,...
View ArticlePick-Up Trucks Focus Of New Farmers’ Museum Exhibit
The pickup truck is an icon of American values and virtues: it is honest, hard working, durable, and reliable. It is also the best-selling vehicle in the United States today. The Pickup Truck:...
View ArticleSaratoga, Capital Region Sites Hosting Geocache Challenge
The Saratoga/Capital District Region of New York State Parks is hosting 50 all new geocaches in 16 state parks and historic sites, and will hold a drawing for prizes for those participants who...
View ArticleHarold Holzer On The Civil War in 50 Objects
This summer, the New-York Historical Society will be displaying all fifty objects from Harold Holzer’s new book, The Civil War in 50 Objects. Though the book looks at the Civil War from many angles,...
View ArticleNew Exhibit on 18th Century Medicine at Fort Ticonderoga
Fort Ticonderoga’s newest exhibit, “It would make a heart of stone melt”: Sickness, Injury, and Medicine at Fort Ticonderoga, is now open. The exhibit explores early medical theory, practice, and...
View ArticleThree Parlors Exhibit Features Art History At Lyndhurst
“Three Parlors,” a new exhibition using three Victorian parlor suites to track the development of a new American identity during the 19th century, will open at Lyndhurst on June 20th and will remain...
View ArticleExhibits: Lincoln Autopsy Reports, Dred Scott Painting
The New York State Museum has added two important artifacts to its current exhibition commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, An Irrepressible Conflict: The Empire State in the Civil War....
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