The Little Mermaid takes Shanghai
Asia Week Highlight: A conversation with Joan B. Mirviss
A conversation with veteran dealer Joan B. Mirviss
Time Flies: A daylight savings reminder
This 18th century cartel clock from the Horace Wood Brock collection, featured in the March issue of ANTIQUES, aptly depicts the fleeting nature of time, is particularly appropriate this Sunday, when are clocks, now mostly digital, are turned ahead one hour. Brock’s stunning collection is a reminder of an age when instruments of timekeeping were not just practical necessities, as …
The Rabbit and the Rat: Who owns Chinese Antiquities? An interview with Kate Fitz Gibbon
An interview with a specialist in Asian art and cultural property law
Yeshiva University Museum Appoints Wisse as New Director
Following the retirement of Sylvia A. Herskowitz, who served in the post for 33 years, Dr. Jacob Wisse has been appointed director of the Yeshiva University Museum in New York City, whose permanent collection includes more than 9,000 objects spanning over 3,000 years of Jewish history. A Montreal native, Wisse earned his B.A. from McGill University before going on to …
The Persistence of Memory
On Jessica Helfand’s 2008 publication Scrapbooks: An American History
Eileen Gray Designs Poised to Set Auction Records
On the pieces by Eileen Gray in the YSL/Bergé collection at Christie’s
Edward F. Caldwell and Company’s Legacy of Lighting
Although the name of Edward F. Caldwell may be unfamiliar to some, the lighting fixtures made by his eponymous firm grace some of the best known public and private architectural commissions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States. Caldwell and his partner, Victor F. von Lossberg, a Russian artist he met while working at Archer …
A Reason to Love Antiques
If you’re in need of further convincing
High Museum Welcomes Heydt as New American Art Curator
The High Museum of Art appoints a new Margaret and Terry Stendt Curator of American Art