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EXHIBITIONS
A stitch in wartime
By Stacy C. Hollander and Annette Gero
The American Folk Art Museum presents a fascinating collection of quilts made by men at arms.
THE LATEST
The Met snares a splendid piece of southern stoneware - Face jugs crafted in the mid-nineteenth century by slaves and freedmen working in the Edgefield District of South Carolina are among the rarest and most historically significant of American folk art ceramics. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York recently acquired a superb one.
On books: The Atlas of Ancient Rome - It seems to be, or should be, a law of intellectual life that the more obscure a discipline, the better the scholarship that it inspires. Its very obscurity, like a dragon guarding a valued horde, repels all but the most valiant and serious scholars. Compare a Wikipedia article on Khloé Kardashian with one on Pius IX and you will get the idea.
Revealing portraits - On view at the National Gallery of Art, Fragonard’s tetes de fantaisie evince some of the earliest stirrings of modernism.
Bravura bamboo at the Met - As a symbol of fortitude and flexibility, bamboo often appears in Japanese art depicting rough weather—bearing up under high winds or the burden of snow, bending yet refusing to break.
Exhibitions
Arts and letters
By Elizabeth Pochoda
A new exhibition explores the affinities between the work of Henry James and the American painting of his time.
EXHIBITIONS
Accquisitions & mergers
By Michael Slenske
A new exhibition at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles is the latest showcase for the powerful work of assemblage artist Betye Saar.
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2016 HIGHLIGHTS
DISPATCHES
A new sporadical e-newsletter about the arts of the past as they live in the present day
by Elizabeth Pochoda
Advisory Editor, The Magazine ANTIQUES
SPOTLIGHT
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
- Connector.
Gregory Cerio, Editor-in-Chief
Lately I have spent a great deal of time in Hudson, New York—a town whose ongoing revival (as noted countless times here and elsewhere) has been led by the antiques trade. But antiques aren’t the only story here, and in trying to understand the place I was put in mind of an encounter Henry James had with Hudson in the autumn of 1904. more...
WHERE TO GO,
WHAT TO SEE
There’s nothing like spending time out of the city in Hudson, New York. Take a look at our guide to the city and read a bit more about why we like it so much.
