On October 2, 1971, a rifle dating from the American Revolution was stolen from the Valley Forge Historical Society in rural Pennsylvania. Its whereabouts were unknown until last year, when it was rediscovered by New Oxford, PA-based antiques dealer Kelly Kinzle.
A feeling of intimacy between human beings and animals pervades By Hoof, Wing, Paw, or Fin: Creatures in Photographs, at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs
Jerry’s Map Exhibition Set 2 is currently on view at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago
“I’d become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be . . . I had the instinct toward championing the cause”
For much of human history, people were forced to imagine what the moon was really like. Was it flat like a disk? Made of cheese? Was it inhabited?
The show paints a compelling portrait of the freewheeling and creative nature of late twentieth-century haute couture, but it’s really about an idea
It’s all about the details for this Wisconsin cabinetmaker
“The Super Bowl, Wimbledon—whatever you want to compare it to, that’s what this week is for Native American art in Santa Fe.”
Nantucket, in cultural memory, will always be the island of whaling. But in spite of Herman Melville’s panegyrics, it was the center of the whaling world for only a brief historical moment.
The Merchant’s House in New York City is a federal, state, and city landmark that dates from 1832 and contains an excellent collection of fine and decorative art. ANTIQUES spoke with Margaret Halsey Gardiner, who’s been its director for nearly thirty years.