Here comes autumn, and with it a host of new art museums, revamped exhibition spaces and enough retail art fair and gallery exhibitions prospects to set any craft lover's heart racing.
Read MoreDi Rosa Preserve: An Unending Love Affair
Driving past rows of grapevines in the Carneros region of California’s Napa Valley, you may do a double take as you spot a flock of sheep on a low hillside. These are in fact no ordinary livestock; flat sculptures of polychromed steel, they bid you welcome to the di Rosa Preserve.
Read MoreThe 2011 NICHE Awards: Defining Excellence
Craft collectors are always on the lookout for new work, new artists and emerging talent. One of the most consistent sources for finding all of the above is the winners’ list of the NICHE Awards, an annual juried competition begun 22 years ago by AmericanStyle’s sister publication, NICHE magazine, as a way to recognize talent and encourage creativity in all craft mediums.
Read MoreArts Focus: The Art of the Quilt
“Quilts have an interesting history, amazing stories about their creation abound, and the techniques used by their makers vary extensively,” explains Martha Stewart in the forward to the book Quilts: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum.
Read MoreStyle Spotlight: Do I Hear $500,000 for This “Model”?
An oil painting by the legendary Norman Rockwell, titled “The Little Model,” was estimated to be worth $500,000 by an appraiser during the Eugene, Ore., taping of the popular PBS television series Antiques Roadshow. The current owner of the painting explained that the piece had been in his family for at least 90 years, after it was given to his great-grandmother by the artist himself.
Read MoreStyle Spotlight: Reprinted, With Love
Oprah Winfrey’s last network television show on May 25 touched a lot of people, but a group of four students at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., found a way to send the star an artful farewell.
Read MoreArts Travel: Art Banners Flutter on the Boulevard
People who travel up Confederation Boulevard in Ottawa will find artistic representations of Canada fluttering alongside.
Read MoreArts Travel: Landmark Status for Olson House
If you stand at a window of the Olson farmhouse, you can see the hillside where a young Christina Olson, stricken with polio and unable to walk, crouched in the field as she crawled toward the house.
Read MoreArts Reader
Published on the 30th anniversary of the Lilliane and David M. Stewart Collection, The Century of Modern Design (Flammarion, $49.95), edited by David A. Hanks, contains an international array of iconic furniture, ceramics, textiles, graphic art, jewelry and objects of daily life.
Read MoreEditor’s Note: Hooray for America’s Art Museums!
Despite incessant wrangling on Capitol Hill over budgets, the debt ceiling and everything else; despite disappointing job numbers, consumer spending and housing starts; despite a roller coaster stock market and generalized anxiety over how to interpret our current economy, America’s museums (God love them!) are still rolling out new wings, renovated spaces, even whole new venues for the enjoyment of arts enthusiasts everywhere.
Read MoreParting Shot: Do You See What I See?
If you happen to be walking on Main Street in Los Gatos, Calif., and see a building with a gaping hole, don’t panic. It's trompe l'oeil by artist John Pugh.
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