See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world
Inside Job
A Columbia Museum of Art exhibition explores artistic depictions of interior scenes and the applied and decorative arts in early twentieth-century America.
Curious Objects: Thomas Commeraw, Free Black Potter in 1800s New York
For nearly two hundred years, from his death in 1823, New York potter Thomas Commeraw was out of sight. In the digital age it finally became possible to positively identify him: as a prosperous free Black craftsman with a manufactory in Corlears Hook.
Casting a Cold Eye on Life and Death
An exhibition at the Met surveys the art of Winslow Homer through the lens of conflict
Current and coming: You’ve got mail, from André Kertész
An insider look at a current exhibition at the High Museum of Art, André Kertész: Postcards from Paris
End notes: January/February 2022
At ANTIQUES, Collegiality Forged by J.R. Ewing and Twizzlers
Renovated Gowns Counterfeit Corsets
An excerpt from a new book about fashion in the Gilded Age explores the underworld and afterlife of French couture in the United States
ARMS AND THE MAN
The story of the Worcester Art Museum’s Higgins Arms and Armor Collection, as it embarks on a national tour
Wandering Eye: From Oval Office art to Vincent Van D’Oh!
What the editors of The Magazine ANTIQUES are looking at this week
Paul Manship’s Ode on a Grecian Urn
The first museum show devoted to Paul Manship in thirty years reunites his modernist works with their inspirations from the arts of antiquity