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Eames House tour contest

Staff — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:05:00 +0100

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.

Celebrating the 'Decodence' of the SS Normandie

Carolyn Kelly — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:19:00 +0100

Unlike other major exhibitions of the art deco period, DecoDence: Legendary Interiors and Illustrious Travelers Aboard the SS Normandie, which opens today at the South Street Seaport Museum, isn't an over-the-top display.

Grandma Moses comes home to Galerie St. Etienne

Carolyn Kelly — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:02:00 +0100

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.

Query: Edwin Scott Bennett

Cynthia Drayton — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:14:00 +0100

An "artist turned photographer of artists," Edwin Scott Bennett (1847-1915) is the subject of a forthcoming article.

Query: Cured, Fermented and Smoked Foods

Cynthia Drayton — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:06:00 +0100

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.

Portrait miniatures from the Met debut at the Winter Antiques Show

Carolyn Kelly — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:06:00 +0100

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—the Metropolitan's collection of nearly 600 American portrait miniatures.

Opening night at the 56th Annual Winter Antiques Show

Staff — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:24:00 +0100

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).

Curator's Choice: A tour of TAAS with Stacy C. Hollander

Carolyn Kelly — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:38:00 +0100

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.

Antiques season in New York

Megan Holloway Fort — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:24:00 +0100

An overview of the major upcoming antiques fairs and auctions held in New York in January 2010.

Cartier and America

Megan Holloway Fort — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:16:00 +0100

Organized to celebrate the firm's one hundred years in the United States, Cartier and America 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.

Poetry and painting

Megan Holloway Fort — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:12:00 +0100

Among this year's best surprises is the moving exhibition Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era, 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.

Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz and the timeless allure of wallpaper

Chloe Lieske — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:13:00 +0100

The new book by art historian and vintage wallpaper expert Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz, Wallpaper: A History of Style and Trends, offers a visually stunning and comprehensive survey of decorative wall coverings.

American paintings at auction

Megan Holloway Fort — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:21:00 +0100

On the horizon are the fall sales of American paintings, drawings, and sculpture at Christie's and Sotheby's in New York.

Multiple modernisms on exhibit in New York

Beatrice V. Thornton — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:51:42 +0100

Early twentieth-century modernism—particularly that of Austria and Germany—seems to be all over New York this fall, with two exhibitions at the Guggenheim— and Gabriel Munter and Vasily Kandisnky 1902-14: A life in Photographs—one at the Museum of Modern Art—Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, and yet another at the Neue Galerie: From Klimt to Klee: Masterworks from the Serge Sebarsky Collection.

Elbert Hubbard: An American Original

Staff — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:15:23 +0100

Premiering tonight on PBS (check here for local listings), Elbert Hubbard: An American Original offers a sweeping profile of the arts and crafts visionary and founder of East Aurora, New York's Roycrofter's community.

Eye candy

Shax Riegler — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:28:00 +0100

Having immersed himself in bygone foodways and culinary techniques for decades, author, food historian, and master of antiquated cookery Ivan Day is the man to call when England's great historic house museums look to re-create the grand feasts of earlier centuries.

Recommended this week

Staff — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:00:00 +0100

A weekly selection of news, stories, and discoveries from the online world of antiques.

Editor's letter, November 2009

Elizabeth Pochoda — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:06:00 +0100

Editor's Letter from The Magazine ANTIQUES November 2009 issue.

Winterthur Chic

Staff — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:57:00 +0100

Although not typically associated with the trend-setting designs of the 20th century, today the Winterthur Museum in Deleware hosts its third annual design conference Chic It Up—which features a stellar roster of historians and curators, all giving talks on interior design from the 1940s.

Blockbuster shows in London and Paris

Carolin C. Young — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:28:00 +0100

As New York turns its attention to things European, this fall's blockbuster shows in London look to Europe's colonial past. Paris offers up Turkish delights.