Beijing to Dresden via St. Petersburg: An Early Qing Enameled Snuff Bottle in the Collection of Augustus II the Strong – by Kristina Kleutghen

Beijing to Dresden via St. Petersburg: An Early Qing Enameled Snuff Bottle in the Collection of Augustus II the Strong – by Kristina Kleutghen

Between 1725 and 1733, Augustus II the Strong, Elector of Saxony (r. 1694-1733) and King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (r. 1697-1706, 1709-33), acquired an extraordinarily rare Chinese treasure for his Green Vault (Grünes Gewölbe). In 1723, this private Dresden palace royal treasury, originally known as the Privy…

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Lubaina Himid’s Naming the Money at the Entangled Pasts, 1768-now exhibition, Royal Academy, London – by Geoff Quilley

Lubaina Himid’s Naming the Money at the Entangled Pasts, 1768-now exhibition, Royal Academy, London – by Geoff Quilley

The culmination of the recent Entangled Pasts exhibition at the Royal Academy, London (3 February–28 April 2024) was undoubtedly Lubaina Himid’s monumental work Naming the Money (2004) (Fig. 1). The exhibition itself was an ambitious and highly admirable engagement by the Royal Academy with its own institutional “entanglement” with colonial and…

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Curators’ Notes: Sad Purple and Mauve: A History of Dye-Making – by Clara Drummond and Sarah K. Rich

Curators’ Notes: Sad Purple and Mauve: A History of Dye-Making – by Clara Drummond and Sarah K. Rich

Sad Purple and Mauve: A History of Dye-MakingSeptember 2023—January 2024Eberly Family Special Collections Library, Penn State This exhibition grew out of a book. Two years ago, the Center for Virtual/Material Studies (CV/MS), housed in the Department of Art History at Penn State, approached the university’s Eberly Family Special Collections Library…

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