Independent collector Wade Lege on restoring a Mississippi bayou home and filling it with Americana.
Interpreting the ancient: The Portland Japanese Garden’s new Cultural Village
For me, a foretaste of the evocative new architecture at the Portland Japanese Garden came two years ago during the rice harvest season in a hamlet on the west coast of Japan.
Shadows and scissors
The life and work of Everet Howard, early American silhouette artist.
Re-examining Thomas Cole
A new exhibition explores the global career of one of America’s leading landscape painters.
Quietly magnificent Michelangelo at the Met
Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer is a far more ambitious production than its title would ever suggest.
Intelligent design
A look at the evolution of the decorative arts collections at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, as it provides the loan exhibition for the 2018 edition of the Winter Antiques Show.
Critical thinking/Difficult issues: Bearing the weight
The field of decorative arts reflects the inheritance of patriarchy in ways that are rarely acknowledged.
Curious Objects: Wartski expert Katherine Purcell on René Lalique and Poetry in Jewelry
In the third episode of The Magazine ANTIQUES’ podcast Curious Objects, host Benjamin Miller interviewed Katherine Purcell, principal in the London jewelry firm Wartski. A peerless scholar and an engaging storyteller, Purcell gives us the particulars on a magnificent enameled necklace by René Lalique, the “genius of art nouveau jewelry.”
Curious Objects: Stuart Feld on the mistakes collectors make
In the latest episode of our new podcast, Curious Objects, Benjamin Miller interviews Stuart Feld of Hirschl & Adler. In this excerpt, Miller asks Feld about the mistakes he often sees collectors make. The biggest? Bargain-hunting.
Curious Objects: Dealer Stuart Feld: An “Expert in Everything” and an early American linen press
Benjamin Miller caught up with Hirschl & Adler Galleries president Stuart Feld in this second episode of The Magazine ANTIQUES’ podcast Curious Objects. In question was a Boston-made neoclassical linen press, which served as entry point into a discussion about provenance and the more general ins-and-outs of antiquing.