What the editors of The Magazine ANTIQUES are looking at this week
Built Environment: A Masterpiece Made by Graft
Amid the pale, Grecian mediocrity of Lower Manhattan’s civic center stands a monument of unaccountable excellence, the Tweed Courthouse at 52 Chambers Street.
Critical Thinking/Difficult Issues: While the Iron is Hot
I wanted to show that antiques have something to say, not only about their own moment—in the more or less distant past—but also about our own.
Openings and Closings: November 11 to November 17
Check out what’s happening online and in person at museums around the country!
Curious Objects: What two paintings from the 1930s can tell us about women’s issues
This month, Ben learns how two women painters made their way during a time when the art world was still male-dominated
Openings and Closings: November 4 to November 10
Check out what’s going on this week at museums at home and abroad!
Simple, Pure, Elegant
On the jewelry designs of modernist master Betty Cooke.
The Gardens of Forth House
The romantic garden fostered emotional reactions with features such as rugged landscape contours that led to abrupt and daring compositions, mysterious Gothic follies, and irregularly shaped bodies of water—all meant to provoke a sense of spiritual awakening.
Openings and Closings: October 28 to November 3
Check out what’s going on online and in person at museums across the country!
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World’s Most Famous Museum, a new book by James Gardner
James Gardner retells and retraces the evolution of one of the world’s most complex architectural palimpsests with elegance, economy, and wit.