Gilded Age

He puts Caravaggio, for example, in the “cultural changes” bin, but the painter’s reappraisal was driven by personal advocacy by, among others, the Gilded Age art advisor Bernard Berenson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Not until early in the next century did Congress take on the depredations of Gilded Age plutocrats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

That conceit ended up an unsubtle but no less effective metaphor for our new Gilded Age.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

After the deaths of their parents, the aging bluebloods holed up in their stately Harlem rowhouse, once a picture of Gilded Age polish, and became a public curiosity.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

Not accidentally, these novels coincided with America’s Gilded Age, the era of overnight fortunes and conspicuous spending that followed in the wake of the Civil War.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times