Did you know that the color mauve, or, rather, the pigment, was discovered in 1856 by an eighteen year- old student experimenting with the hydrocarbons in coal tar from street lamps in an attempt to discover a cure for malaria?
Wandering Eye: An eye for treasure
What the editors of The Magazine ANTIQUES are looking at this week
Openings and Closings: January 6 to January 12
Check out what’s going on this week at museums across the country!
Current and Coming: Kentucky Shakers at the Speed
The Speed Art Museum in Louisville, exhibition, Careful, Neat, and Decent: Arts of the Kentucky Shakers, examines the material culture of the Shakers.
The Exhibition that Never Was
Although Breck was not the first painter to depict Venice using an impressionist technique, he was the first American to create a large body of Venetian views in that style.
Openings and Closings: December 30 to January 5
Check out what’s going on this week at museums across the country and abroad!
Current and Coming: The Sistine Chapel in San Antonio
How did filmmakers re-create the majesty of Michelangelo’s masterpiece in the days before digital computer effects? With gigantic hand-painted scenic backdrops.
A Man of Parts: The house and collection built by the visionary director of the Wadsworth Atheneum
Understanding the house means understanding the man who created it, the man who at twenty-seven became acting director of the Wadsworth Atheneum and made the country’s oldest public art museum the most talked about arts institution in the country.
Wandering Eye: What to wondering eyes should appear
What the editors of The Magazine ANTIQUES are looking at this week
Openings and Closings: December 23 to December 29
Check out what’s going on this week at museums at home and abroad!