Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2025Guest Editor’s Letter Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser Artist ProfileOn the cover: Valerie Hegarty ObjectsNostalgia in Motion: How immigrant craftsmen built America’s first amusement rides. Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle The Obscure ConnoisseurPart II: In which the writer brandishes his polishing cloth. Ralph Gardner Jr. PerspectivesMitch’s Musings: When old textiles meet …
Yesterday and Today: Art and Design (Part II)
An art historian continues his exploration of the affinities he finds between works of contemporary art and early modern decorative arts
November/December 2022
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2022 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Field NotesPhiladelphia Stories Elizabeth Pochoda Current and ComingAndrew LaMar Hopkins’s first museum retrospective, Morris Hirschfield re-examined at AFAM, and Edward Hopper’s New York at the Whitney In MemoriamSmiling with Scudder: Remembering R. Scudder Smith (1935–2022), publisher of the Newtown Bee and founder of Antiques and …
Magazine September/October 2022
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2022 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Field NotesWater is Life Elizabeth Pochoda Current and ComingMediterranean diaspora: Botticelli in Minneapolis, Giacometti in Seattle, and polychrome Greek sculpture in New York Auction NotesUpcoming Sales: The great Peter Tillou’s estate, and the mysterious art of Gertrude Abercrombie Object Lesson The Art of the GameBenjamin …
Yesterday and Today: Art and Design (Part I)
An art historian muses on affinities between works of contemporary and early modern decorative arts
Magazine May/June 2022
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! MAY/JUNE 2022 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Field NotesSpeaking Volumes at the Morgan Library Elizabeth Pochoda Current and Coming J.M.W Turner goes to Boston, an Escher Retrospective in Houston, and lost Roman murals remembered at the Getty Digital Doings Chatting from Winter in Spring, a Curious Cupid, and More Sammy Dalati Field …
Magazine September October 2021
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2021 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Critical Thinking/Difficult IssuesOf Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax . . . and a Red Wheelbarrow Glenn Adamson Current and ComingHomage Anew for Doris Lee at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Gran Elegancia in Dallas, and more Digital DoingsA New Arrow in Our QuiverSammy …
From the Archives : Iron in the Gilded Age: Samuel Yellin at Stan Hywet Hall
Samuel Yellin received what would prove perhaps his single most important early commission in 1914, for the Frank Augustus Seiberling estate in Akron, Ohio.
Magazine September/October 2020
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Critical Thinking/Difficult IssuesA More Perfect Union Glenn Adamson Current and ComingGarden openings, slavery and women’s suffrage in Nantucket, and Girlhood in Washington, DC Farther AfieldOff the Piazza, Another World: Celebrating a Venetian institution, Caffè Florian at 300 James Gardner Object LessonThe Sculpture of Meta Vaux …
Openings and Closings: Even More Museums available Digitally
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