Everything is Sculpture
by Thomas Connors
Isamu Noguchi saw art not as something separate from life, but embedded in the playgrounds, gardens, and spaces people move through every day.
Something Old, Something New, & Plenty of Blue
by Christine Hildebrand
The Magazine ANTIQUES attends Tanner Fletcher’s Vintage-Inspired Spring/Summer 2027 Bridal Runway Show.
Refugees in the Parlor
by Lisa Minardi
How one household in the Philadelphia countryside reveals the domestic upheaval, resilience, and material culture of war-torn Revolutionary America.
1826: Fashioning the American Myth
by Jonathan Prown
The Jubilee is justifiably remembered as a highly significant patriotic moment. But as the historian Len Travers notes in his history of the earliest Fourth of July celebrations, 1826 also needs to be understood as a time of increasing conflict.
The Obscure Connoisseur - PART V: In which the author is awakened to the splendor of his vintage bathrooms.⬬
Exhibitions: Dressed to Express - Is fashion art? If your answer is “no,” you likely haven’t seen the work of Elsa Schiaparelli. ⬬
Renaissance Replica - Sent unexpectedly by a friend, a cobalt-blue footed cup holds a backstory steeped in Italian Renaissance history. ⬬
In All Its Greatness - Monticello’s Great Clock reveals how Jefferson used timekeeping, sound, and design to regulate labor and extend control over enslaved Black lives. ⬬
“The Self-Cleaning Woman” - Through her visionary self-cleaning house, Frances Gabe embraced technology to empower women at home. ⬬
Exhibitions: Winging It - There’s a new exhibition on that will ruffle your feathers in the best way possible. ⬬
Antiquing with a Founding Father - An immersive antiques experience is coming to 36 Craven Street in the Charing Cross area of London this summer. ⬬
Exhibitions: Uncovering the Legacy of Betsy Wyeth - A new exhibition showcases key examples of the furniture, ceramics, metalwork, and more that Betsy Wyeth collected and arrayed around her distinctive interiors. ⬬
Exhibitions: Spinning a web - In Navajo (Diné) weaving tradition, women are the artists—their ancestors were taught to weave by a foremother, the Spider Woman, with whose silk the universe itself came into being. ⬬
Everything is Sculpture - Isamu Noguchi saw art not as something separate from life, but embedded in the playgrounds, gardens, and spaces people move through every day. ⬬
Travel: For the Birds - At Feather & Form in North Carolina’s Northern Outer Banks, ducks, decoys, and coastal tradition take flight.⬬
LIVING WITH ANTIQUES
Habitat for Humanity
By Stacy C. Hollander with photography by Ellen McDermott and Bridget Sciales
