Elizabeth Pochoda

1 month ago | themagazineantiques.com | Elizabeth Pochoda

On visiting the Old Print Shop in New York, where lessons for the present abound in printed images from America’s political past. A few months ago, our guest editor, Thomas Jayne, suggested I visit Robert Newman of the Old Print Shop with a view to writing an article on prejudice in prints, especially those issued by Currier and Ives. Always ready for a bit of controversy joined to social justice, I was game.

Dec 20, 2024 | themagazineantiques.com | Elizabeth Pochoda

A new installation at the two-hundred-year-old Brooklyn Museum presents a moving and persuasive rethinking of American art. If it were in any other city, the Brooklyn Museum would be a world-class destination—and for the savvy museumgoer it already is. Despite the looming presence of the Met to its north, the museum has always embraced its outer borough status.

Sep 24, 2024 | thenation.com | Elizabeth Pochoda

Feature / A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum reveals how deeply embedded a Native woman’s perspective on our culture might be.

Sep 19, 2024 | themagazineantiques.com | Elizabeth Pochoda

Last year I used this column to report on two friends, both antiques dealers, who repaired my indifference to duck decoys and weathervanes (July/August 2023). Robert Young and Patrick Bell were both patient and enlightening. Such adventures in attitude adjustment are healthy at any age, but especially so as the years pile up. Just now I have had to rethink my attitude toward the Shakers and Shakerism.

Sep 4, 2024 | themagazineantiques.com | Elizabeth Pochoda

We have forgotten how to grieve, how to sing, as Whitman did when mourning the death of Lincoln, a song “low and wailing . . . and yet again bursting with joy.” We are far indeed from the consolations available to a nineteenth-century artist such as Frederic Edwin Church, whose Hudson valley home, Olana, was, and is, filled with memorials to children, siblings, friends, and children of friends without so much as a whiff of melancholia—to borrow a term from Freud.