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City Folk
By Elizabeth V. Warren
A new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum explores the relationship between commerce and folk art in old New York
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Art Deco in the Toddlin’ Town - Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern America, distributed for the Chicago Art Deco Society by Yale University Press, provides an occasion for examining the city’s art deco history. Through five scholarly essays and 101 notable objects and buildings, Art Deco Chicago reevaluates art deco’s and Chicago’s cultural and economic contributions to the United States during the Machine Age.
City Folk - A new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum explores the relationship between commerce and folk art in old New York
A Fresh Look at a Few Old Pastels - Henrietta Johnston’s portraits of Colonel John Moore and his wife, Frances Lambert Moore
A new book on the art and life of sculptor Daniel Chester French - The first comprehensive biography of the pre-eminent American sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) is now out. French—whose works include the statues of the Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, and Alma Mater at Columbia University in New York—has long deserved a broad and in-depth exploration, and historian Harold Holzer’s Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French (Princeton Architectural Press, $35) has been eagerly anticipated.Do you have a tip for The Magazine ANTIQUES? Send it to us at tips@themagazineantiques.com
2018 HIGHLIGHTS
SPOTLIGHT
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
- Connector.
Gregory Cerio, Editor-in-Chief
We moved offices recently—and you all know what a joy moving can be. We’re now on the far west side of Midtown Manhattan, the neighborhood where two of New York’s great fictional characters resided: Nero Wolfe, the ingenious, orchid-fancying, and largely housebound private detective, and his much more dynamic legman and chronicler, Archie Goodwin. Both would be amazed—or, perhaps more likely, appalled—by the glass-sheathed towers of the Hudson Yards project now rising near the site of their old brownstone. Then again, nobody appreciated the urge to turn a buck more than Wolfe. more...
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Established in 1988, TEFAF is widely regarded as the world’s pre-eminent organization for fine art, antiques, and design. TEFAF runs three Fairs internationally – New York Spring, focused on modern and contemporary art & design; New York Fall, covering fine and decorative art from antiquity to 1920; and Maastricht, which covers 7,000 years of art history.
TEFAF Maastricht will be on view in the Netherlands from March 16th to the 24th.
