June 6 “Lethal Beauty: Samurai Weapons and Armor”; Honolulu Museum of Art, Hololulu, HI June 8 “Charles M. Schulz: Pop Culture in Peanuts”; Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL “Charles Sydney Hopkinson (1869-1962)”; Vose Galleries, Boston, MA “Luminous: 50 Years of Collecting Prints and Drawings at the Blanton”; Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin “Maine Sublime: Frederic …
We at ANTIQUES are saddened by the death of Nina R. Gray, an independent curator of American decorative arts, on May 20, at home, after a brave battle with cancer. Nina’s contributions to our field were legion, ranging from her early meticulous cataloguing talents, which allowed other scholars access to long-overlooked material-and provided Nina with what Margi Hofer, Curator …
The exhibition opening today at the Neue Galerie in New York City focuses on the decorative arts, furniture, and graphic design of Koloman Moser (1868-1918), beginning with his co-founding of the Vienna Secession in 1897 and culminating with his departure from the Wiener Werkstätte in 1907. Poster for “Frommes Kalendar,” 1899 by Moser. Execution: Albert Berger, Vienna. Colored lithograph …
Basket weaving is one of the most ancient of all decorative crafts. It is thought that the idea to create vessels by interweaving twigs was conceived around the same time as the idea to chip shards of flint into arrowheads. Fragments of Neolithic-age pottery reveal that long before the invention of the wheel, potters molded clay around woven basket forms, …
Our cover shows an early and uncharacteristically jaunty painting by George Ault, part of the Lunder Collection featured in the article about the Colby College Museum of Art. Elsewhere in the issue an example of Ault’s later, more hard-boiled style can be seen in Marica and Jan Vilcek’s collection of early American modernism. Ault was by most accounts an impossible …
May 10 Weekly Friday evening auction at Auctionata online auctionata.com May 17 “American and European Works of Art” at Skinner, Boston, MA skinnerinc.com May 18 “Treasures of Louis C. Tiffany from the Garden Museum, Part 2” at Michaan’s Auctions, Alameda, CA michaans.com May 21 “English and Continental Furniture and Decorative Arts” at Freeman’s Auctions, Philadelphia, PA freemansauction.com …
May 10-12 52nd Shenandoah Antiques Expo, Fishersville, VA heritagepromotions.net May 10-12 Wayside Inn Antiques Show, Sudbury, MA waysideantiquesshow.org May 15 Brimfield’s “Heart-O-The-Mart,” Brimfield, MA brimfield-hotm.com. May 17-18 Greater York Antiques Show, West York, PA jimburkantiqueshows.net May 25-26 Rhinebeck Antiques Fair, Rhinebeck, NY rhinebecksantiquesfair.com May 30-June 2 Las Vegas Antique Jewelry and Watch Show, Las Vegas, NV vegasantiquejewelry.com June 6-16 Olympia International …
By Katrine Ames Here in this shell of a house, This house that is struggling to be, Hope must have been The first to move in, And waited to welcome me. But hope isn’t easy to see. This lovely tribute to the White House in Leonard Bernstein and Allan Jay Lerner’s 1976 musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue would make a perfect anthem for …
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, May/June 2013 | At some point during the 1800s, when nobody was looking, an institution passed away that for centuries had been a fixture of the visual arts: the artistic dynasty, the family of painters who, across several generations, maintained a consistent aesthetic profile. One is put in mind of this institution, and of its demise, …
By Cynthia A. Drayton Mikhail Romanov was crowned Czar in 1613. The Romanov family then ruled Russia for the next three hundred years until the 1917 assassination of Nicholas II. To mark the four hundredth anniversary of the Romanov’s ascension to the throne and the family’s patronage of both Fabergé and the decorative arts, there are exhibitions, an auction, and …