The most recent posts for in Current & Coming. http://www.themagazineantiques.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:41:52 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/current-and-coming/2011-10-17/edwardhopper/ <p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> </xml><![endif]--><!-- --><!--[if gte mso 10]> <mce:style><!/* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} --> <!--[endif]-->Of Edward Hopper shows there is no evident end and that is not a bad thing. This summer the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, is opening a massive Hopper show on a small Hopper theme-</p> The Magazine ANTIQUES Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/current-and-coming/2011-10-17/jewelsand-gems/ <p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]> <span class="mceItemObject"classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id=ieooui> </span> <mce:style><! st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } --> <!--[endif]--><!-- --><!--[if gte mso 10]> <mce:style><!/* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} --> <!--[endif]-->Jewels and more jewels are to be found in the new Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston</p> The Magazine ANTIQUES Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/current-and-coming/2010-10-25/williamsburg-forum-2011/ <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="color: #000000;">Colonial Williamsburg will convene its sixty-third annual Antiques Forum between February 20 and 24, 2011. The theme this year, Decorative Arts Forensics: How We Know What We Know, is intended to shed light on some of the fascinating advances in techniques for historical research and scientific investigation that have opened new avenues of verification for curators, collectors, and scholars. </span></span></p> Staff Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/current-and-coming/2010-10-22/fantastic-mr-shearer/ <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="color: #000000;">A man with a mission, the elusive late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Virginia cabinetmaker John Shearer often professed his British loyalties in carving and inlay. </span></span><!--st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } --><!-- --><!--[if gte mso 10]> <mce:style><!/* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} > <! [endif] >A man with a mission, the elusive late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Virgini Staff Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/current-and-coming/2010-04-17/the-african-perspective-in-detroit/ <p>The Detroit Institute of Arts is presenting a fascinating and adventurous exhibition that explores the consequences on African art of cultural exchanges between Africa and Europe over the past five hundred years. Casting the European as the cultural &ldquo;other,&rdquo; a reversal of the usual Eurocentric perspective, the exhibition examines how African artists from diverse cultures used, and continue to use, visual forms to reflect their particular societies&rsquo; changing attitudes toward Europeans, as the latter evolved from stranger to colonizer, to the more inclusive Westerner.</p> Staff Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/current-and-coming/2010-04-15/virginia-museum-of-fine-arts-reopens/ <p>With an atrium, a forty-foot-high glass wall, new galleries, restaurant, caf&eacute;, and sculpture garden, the reopening of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) on May 1 is the latest in a series of important museum renovations and one of the most anticipated.</p> Staff Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/current-and-coming/2010-04-10/women-and-folk-art-and-imperial-silver-in-new-york/ <p>So many exhibitions open in New York in any given month that it is hard to choose which ones to feature. Two that have great appeal are <em>Women Only: Folk Art by Female Hands, </em>at the American Folk Art Museum, and <em>Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered</em>, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 13 to November 7.</p> Staff Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/current-and-coming/2010-02-22/eames-house-tour-contest/ <p>The Delaware-based type foundry and design firm House Industries is offering three lucky individuals a chance to win an exclusive tour of the Eames House (Case Study House #8) in Pacific Palisades, California, where the dynamic design duo lived from 1949.</p> Staff Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:05:00 +0100 http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/current-and-coming/2010-02-18/art-deco-design-and-the-normandie/ <p>Unlike other major exhibitions of the art deco period, <em>DecoDence: Legendary Interiors and Illustrious Travelers Aboard the SS Normandie</em>, which opens today at the South Street Seaport Museum, isn't an over-the-top display.</p> Carolyn Kelly Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:19:00 +0100 http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/current-and-coming/2010-02-04/grandma-moses-comes-home-to-galerie-st-etienne/ <p>When the Museum of Modern Art hosted an exhibition of contemporary unknown artists in 1939 one artist to be discovered was Anna Mary Robertson Moses.</p> Carolyn Kelly Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:02:00 +0100 http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/current-and-coming/2010-02-03/query-edwin-scott-bennett/ <p>An "artist turned photographer of artists," Edwin Scott Bennett (1847-1915) is the subject of a forthcoming article.</p> Cynthia Drayton Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:14:00 +0100 http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/current-and-coming/2010-02-01/2010-oxford-food-symposium/ <p>The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, the annual conference on food history, is seeking papers on the topic "Cured, Fermented and Smoked Foods," to be held at Saint Antony's College in Oxford, England, on July 9 - 11, 2010.</p> Cynthia Drayton Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:06:00 +0100 http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/current-and-coming/2010-01-28/american-portrait-miniatures-metropolitan-museum-book/ <p>American art aficionados packed into the Tiffany Room at the Park Avenue Armory last night as part of a series of special lectures hosted by the Winter Antiques Show to listen in as Carrie Rebora Barratt, associate director for collections and administration and curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Lori Zabar, an independent scholar and researcher, spoke on the subject of their new book&mdash;the Metropolitan's collection of nearly 600 American portrait miniatures.</p> Carolyn Kelly Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:06:00 +0100 http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/current-and-coming/2010-01-25/opening-night-at-the-winter-antiques-show-2010/ <p>Many of New York's most recognizable art patrons and designers came out on Thursday night to toast the 56th annual Winter Antiques Show (at the Park Avenue Armory through Sunday, January 31).</p> Staff Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:24:00 +0100 http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/current-and-coming/2010-01-22/curators-choice-a-tour-of-taas-with-stacy-c-hollander/ <p>A visit to the American Antiques Show (also known as TAAS) at the Metropolitan Pavilion is always filled with discovery, so I was delighted to have the opportunity to join a special tour of the show with Stacy C. Hollander, the American Folk Art Museum's senior curator and director of exhibitions.</p> Carolyn Kelly Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:38:00 +0100 http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/current-and-coming/2010-01-19/winter-antiques-in-new-york/ <p>An overview of the major upcoming antiques fairs and auctions held in New York in January 2010.</p> Megan Holloway Fort Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:24:00 +0100 http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/current-and-coming/2010-01-06/cartier-and-america/ <p>Organized to celebrate the firm's one hundred years in the United States, <em>Cartier and America</em> explores the history of the house of Cartier from its first great successes as the "king of jewelers and the jeweler to kings" at the end of the nineteenth century through the 1960s and 1970s, when Cartier supplied international celebrities with jewels and luxury accessories, and up to the present.</p> Megan Holloway Fort Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:16:00 +0100 http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/current-and-coming/2009-12-31/poetry-and-painting/ <p>Among this year's best surprises is the moving exhibition <em>Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era</em>, which opened during the summer at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis, Tennessee, and remains on view at the Katonah Museum of Art in Katonah, New York, through January 24, 2010.</p> Megan Holloway Fort Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:12:00 +0100 http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/current-and-coming/2009-12-07/carolle-thibaut-pomerantz-and-the-timeless-allure-of-wallpaper/ <p>The new book by art historian and vintage wallpaper expert Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz, <em>Wallpaper: A History of Style and Trends</em>,<em> </em>offers a visually stunning and comprehensive survey of decorative wall coverings.</p> Chloe Lieske Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:13:00 +0100 http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/current-and-coming/2009-11-30/american-paintings-at-auction/ <p>On the horizon are the fall sales of American paintings, drawings, and sculpture at Christie's and Sotheby's in New York.</p> Megan Holloway Fort Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:21:00 +0100