South and the City

Museum Hop

n New York City this March, at the recently reopened Museum of Modern Art, see an exhibition of the works of Donald Judd, the minimalist contributing editor Jessica B. Harris cocurated the exhibition , which launches in February and digs into the roots of such Southern staples as rice and bourbon. See another piece of food history at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which recently acquired the earliest known American porcelain teapot, a blue-and-white beauty from the 1760s attributed to the English-born South Carolinian John Bartlam.