Hoarders or collectors?

The US is a nation of compulsive collectors –at least if responses to an exhibition at New York City’s New Museum are anything to go by. The keeper is a collection of collections, a survey of the collecting passion in art and beyond that finds room for everything from a […]

Mary Cassatt Prints and the collector Samuel Putnam Avery

On 2013, up in a hallway off the Rose Main Reading Room of the New York Public Library was a small exhibition of prints from one of Impressionism’s iconic artists. Created between 1878 and 1898 by Mary Cassatt, the quiet depictions of women in repose with family pets or viewing […]