The Shakers’ Utopian World Sees a Surge of Modern Interest

A show at ICA Philadelphia joins a surge of Shaker-inspired projects: films, dances, a museum’s expansion. Refracted through ...
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Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art shows the contemporary influence of the Shakers

An art exhibition about the Shakers, also known as The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, would naturally have furniture. The Institute of Contemporary Art has plenty: ladder ...
The Christian Century

Shakers cling to life—and no, they don't just make furniture: Only a few members left

Arnold Hadd is the last Shaker man on Earth. And you can find him and three “sisters” in the dwindling faith group living on the hilly farmland near Sabbathday Lake, southwest of Lewiston, Maine. A ...
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The Testament of Ann Lee painstakingly re-creates Shaker craft

Production designer Sam Bader describes what it took to bring the Shakers' frugal yet beautiful world to life for the film The Testament of Ann Lee, created by the duo behind last year's The Brutalist ...