On a street of stately Victorians in the comfortable Annex neighborhood of Toronto, one house stands out from all the rest. Maybe it’s because of the cotton blossoms and taro leaves thriving in the wild yet deliberate jungle of a front yard. Maybe it’s because of the broomcorn growing sky-high along the sidewalk.

You could call Pittsburgh artist Lori Hornell the ultimate recycler. Both her home and her art reflect an unorthodox use of materials and her flamboyant sense of fun. Long before “recycling” became a popular buzzword, Hornell created art from found objects. “From paperclips to chicken bones, tomato cages to teabags…”

Were it possible during the 1970s to have Googled a heat-sensitive map of the United States, it would no doubt have picked up the flickering glow of hot furnaces and molten glass from Maine to Oregon, Wisconsin to North Carolina, California to Washington State.

When spring arrives in the Texas Hill Country, so do the bluebonnets. Wildflowers carpet the landscape with color. Settled by German pioneers in the 1840s, the Hill Country and its central town, Fredericksburg, are known for art galleries, wineries, historic charm and scenic vistas.

AmericanStyle readers went for the tried and true in casting their votes for this year’s Top 10 Fairs & Festivals winners. Every one of them has already placed in the Top 10 within the past five years—some more than once.

From the essays in Beauty Beyond Nature: The Glass Art of Paul Stankard (The Robert M. Minkoff Foundation, $80), readers learn that Paul Stankard began his career as an industrial glassblower, that he had to teach himself many of the techniques he uses, and that his small botanical glass pieces have enormous appeal to a [...]

Real estate agents call it staging—putting furniture and accessories into rooms of an empty house to make it feel more lived-in and sellable. You and I would probably just call it stuff—the things you cart from place to place over a lifetime to make your own formerly empty house your home.

Henry Clay Frick, who died in 1919, always intended to build an addition to his 1914 mansion—now The Frick Collection—to house his growing collection of sculpture. The project was postponed because of World War I, and Frick died before it could be resumed.

From March 22-May 13, “360-Degree Projection,” an installation by Doug Aitken, will illuminate the facade of the Hirshhorn Museum with film. Conceptual sketch image courtesy of the Doug Aitken Workshop. Since opening in 1974, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum has been one of the most visually striking buildings in Washington, D.C., as much a work of [...]

Diane Savona’s “Formal Argument,” crafted from repurposed vintage textiles, beads and odds and ends will be featured during FiberPhiladelphia. CREDIT: Diane Savona It’s fitting that Philadelphia, the home of Betsy Ross, America’s first famous fiber artist, should play host to a major biennial festival celebrating textile art. But Betsy might not have been familiar with [...]

Craft artists are among the 50 artists honored with USA Fellowships by the advocacy group United States Artists (USA). In a ceremony on Dec. 5 in Santa Monica, Calif., the honorees—architects, dancers, writers, musicians, playwrights and visual artists— were each awarded with a $50,000 grant to use however they like.