William Morris was committed to making the world a more beautiful place, and not just for the wealthy. Best known for his intricately patterned wallpapers and textiles, the Victorian designer was also a socialist and novelist as well as a fierce critic of industrialization, which he believed was destroying nature and reducing craftspeople to factory workers. At the Fitzwilliam Museum, in Cambridge, an exhibition explores Morris’s art and ideas in the context of his friends and collaborators, among them, Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Elizabeth Siddal, Morris’s daughter May Morris, and the designer Kate Faulkner. Paintings, drawings, textiles, and ceramics are on view, including rarely seen works from the museum’s collection. —Elena Clavarino