Check out what’s going on online and in person at museums this week!
Farther Afield: Art the Old-Fashioned Way
A visit to the ateliers of the Florence Academy of Art
“Conformable to that of the Waters”: The search for the origins of an early Kentucky furniture group
The cabriole-legged furniture of
Kentucky is the result of the region’s particular environmental, cultural, social, and economic forces, a kind of terroir, made manifest in wood
Wandering Eye: The eye of the beholder
What the editors of The Magazine ANTIQUES are looking at this week
Openings and Closings: February 10 to February 16
Check out what’s going on this week at museums across the country!
Current and coming: Iberian inspiration at the Chrysler
An upcoming exhibition: Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820– 1920, takes visitors on a spin through Iberia during the height of the “Spanish Craze”
Critical Thinking Difficult Issues: Unsafe Deposit
Spiro and the Art of the Mississippian World, an exhibition at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum tells the story of a desecrated ancient site
Just Dive In!
What the editors of The Magazine ANTIQUES are looking at this week
Current and coming: In Boston, folk art Fundamentals
On Feb. 6 the MFA will open Collecting Stories: The Invention of Folk Art, a reconsideration of works on paper and sculpture from the Karolik Collection of American Folk Art
Blended Spirits: A Curious Objects Cocktail Hour at the Winter Show
Winter Show exhibitors Daniel Crouch (Daniel Crouch Rare Books), Carrie Imberman (Kentshire), and Keegan Goepfert (Les Enluminures) joined host Ben Miller for a cocktail hour Zoom chat about alcohol-friendly antiques at the this year’s (virtual) edition of the Winter Show, the year’s premier antiques fair.