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“In [Sonia Delaunay’s] studio,” a 1927 advertising flyer promised, “you will know that you are seeing something new, something that… will transform your life into a work of art.” Delaunay’s Paris atelier in the twenties was producing textiles, carpets, garments, movie sets, furniture, books, and paintings—everything a person might need for an artful existence and all made in the “simultaneous” (simultané) style that the artist developed with her husband, the painter Robert Delaunay.

If Wassily Kandinsky bent the visible world to the whims of his canvas, reducing concert hall scenes to puddles of color and line, Sonia Delaunay seem

Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915 is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition yet mounted of a significant nineteenth-century innovation in ceramics. Inspired by Italian Renaissance maiolica and French Palissy ware, “majolica” debuted at London’s Great Exhibition of 1851 and was an immediate sensation. This molded earthenware capitalized on new production techniques and brightly colored lead-based glazes and allowed for a diversity of ...