Last week, the Victoria & Albert Museum released “Strawberry Thief,” an iPad app based on the textiles of 19th-century British Arts and Crafts movement designer William Morris. Sophia George, the ...

The first large look back at an irreverent style and its brief yet prescient life. By Roberta Smith ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — What is art history made of? Everything that happened within a given ...

Around the turn of the 20th century, a revolution was quietly happening in the decorative arts and architecture of America. A just-opened exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, "A New and Native ...

RIT’s visual-art programs enjoy a long and distinguished history, starting with the first mechanical drawing class in 1885 at what was then called the Mechanics Institute. A few years later, at the ...

Some design styles come and go, but this one stuck. In the early 1900s, the Arts and Crafts style swept the country, bringing with it an appreciation for hand-craftsmanship, sturdy oak furniture, and ...

A group of women artists in early 20th century Chicago exemplified the connection between the decorative arts and feminist movements in the United States and is the focus of a new book published by ...

For nearly two decades, area crafts artists have marked the coming of fall and winter with a weekend of sharing their work with the public. This year, the 19th annual Inland Craft Warnings sale and ...

When: Opens Saturday and continues through June 26. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesdays through Saturdays. Curators Glenn Mason and Lawrence Kreisman will give a lecture Saturday at 3 p.m., ...

Gertrude Jekyll was a British horticulturist, garden designer, writer and so much more. She created more than 400 gardens during her lifetime. Gertrude was born on Nov. 29, 175 years ago, in London.

Cleota Reed, of Syracuse, is a historian of the Arts and Crafts Movement. She is the author of many publications including the exhibition catalog “Ward Wellington Ward: The Architect and his Craftsmen ...

An investment must be continually supported to fulfill its ultimate potential. Early in the 2000s, St. Petersburg, Florida, began making a major investment in the arts. That investment has seen the ...

Buffalo's undersung role as the epicenter of the American Arts and Crafts movement, which influenced generations of designers and artists, is on display in two local exhibitions running through the ...