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Great Estates: Historic Hampton in Towson, Maryland

Katy Kiick — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Just outside of Baltimore in Towson, Maryland is the Hampton National Historic Site, part of the National Park Service since 1948, when it was the first site to receive recognition for architectural merit.

A to Z: Penwork

Staff — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:19:00 +0100

A daily vocabulary of decorative arts, antiques, and design terms.

Museum accessions, part 2

Kathleen Luhrs — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:44:00 +0100

This short list of notable acquisitions began with a request to decorative arts curators in major American museums to choose and discuss a favorite recent gift or purchase.

Recommended this week

Staff — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:56:00 +0100

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

ANTIQUES bookshelf

Staff — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:19:00 +0100

Film historian Ira M. Resnick bought his first film posters forty years ago. These are still a part of his collection, which has grown to some 2,000 posters and 1,500 film stills, and has been published for the first time in Starstruck: Vintage Movie Posters from Classic Hollywood.

Vintage finds for your valentine

Emily Vanderpool — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:08:00 +0100

It is difficult to ignore the saccharine gestures that crop up every year for Valentine's Day. While the vocabulary of love has found various forms over the centuries and throughout cultures, one fascinating and charming version of a valentine that has endured is the sailors' valentine.

Great Estates: Davenport House in Savannah, Georgia

Rachael Dealy Salisbury — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:29:00 +0100

Completed around 1820, Davenport House, located in the historic port city of Savannah, evinces the post-Revolutionary American taste for contemporary European design.

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Staff — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:07:00 +0100

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

ANTIQUES bookshelf

Staff — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:49:00 +0100

The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900 is a beautiful and engaging study of the private worlds of Paris, London, and Berlin depicted in the visual arts.

Falling for antique Mizpah jewelry

Carolyn Kelly — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:37:00 +0100

It's easy to fall in love with Victorian jewelry. The combination of beauty and sentimentality in objects such as mourning brooches made of facetted jet and Etruscan beaded bangles is nearly unparalleled, while the symbolism in 19th-century jewels makes them especially alluring for collectors.

Museum accessions, part I

Kathleen Luhrs — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:48:00 +0100

This short list of notable acquisitions began with a request to decorative arts curators in major American museums to choose and discuss a favorite recent gift or purchase.

Recommended this week

Staff — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:43:00 +0100

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

ANTIQUES bookshelf

Staff — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:53:00 +0100

Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition now at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (through February 7), and at the Kunstmuseum Bern in March, Edward Burne-Jones: The Earthly Paradise is an examination of the Arthurian legends and mythic tales that Burne-Jones transformed into idealized and allegorical visions for his Victorian audience.

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Staff — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:19:00 +0100

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

ANTIQUES bookshelf

Staff — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:44:00 +0100

Although MoMA's acclaimed Bauhaus exhibition closed yesterday there are still a number of other exhibitions and publications that explore the history of the school and the artists that flourished there.

Breaking tradition: Ceramics by Michelle Erickson

Carolyn Kelly — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:28:00 +0100

One upcoming highlight of the New York Ceramics Fair is a lecture and demonstration by ceramic artist Michelle Erickson, who was featured in our September 2009 issue.

Nathan Fox illustrates the Winter Antiques Show

Staff — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:26:00 +0100

For a change from the ordinary we asked artist and illustrator Nathan Fox, whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine and New York Magazine, to create a special gatefold cover for our January/February issue that interprets the venerable Winter Antiques Show.

Ceramics 101: A sampling of antique English wares

Carolyn Kelly — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:34:00 +0100

With the dizzying array of wares on display this week at the New York Ceramics Fair, it seemed an opportune time to review some of the basics of ceramic art and history.

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Staff — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:34:00 +0100

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

ANTIQUES bookshelf

Staff — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:02:00 +0100

The recently published study When Art Worked: The New Deal, Art, and Democracy is an epic look at the artists, administrative leaders, and cultural convergence that made the New Deal a success both in artistic and social terms.