Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! MARCH/APRIL 2023 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Field NotesBackground Check Elizabeth Pochoda Current and ComingThe Spanish sojourns of Sargent in San Francisco; Berenice Abbott at the Met; and the storied Forten family of Philadelphia Museum VisitChapultepec Castle in Mexico City: The country’s Museum of National History has traveled a long, strange road …
“Gracious and artful devices for the adornment of life”
An excerpt from the new book English Needlework, 1600–1740, The Percival D. Griffiths Collection charts the origins of the twentieth-century reappraisal of the embroiderer’s art.
The Finest Piece of Walnut Furniture of its Type
An excerpt from the new book English Furniture 1680–1760, The Percival D. Griffiths Collection examines the famed Dickinson desk and bookcase.
Curious Objects: BONUS Episode: Collecting Outside the Lines
A few weeks back, Curious Objects host Benjamin Miller participated in a panel discussion at the Winter Show alongside collector Jeremy Simien (former guest of the podcast) and Morgan Library and Museum curator Jesse Erickson…
An Arts and Crafts Arcadia
Whether you know him as an artist, designer, printer, and key figure of the British arts and crafts movement; or as poet, novelist, translator of ancient Icelandic sagas; or as social critic, political activist, and pioneering preservationist, William Morris is one of the most enduring figures of Victorian England…
End notes: Frill Seekers
Did you ever wonder how Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s use of distinctive collars with her judicial robes ever came about?
Curious Objects: The Shakers, Pt. 2: Afterlife
In the second and final part of Curious Objects’ exploration of Shakerism, host Benjamin Miller interrogates the myths that have arisen around this movement in the 150-odd years since its heyday…
English Lessons
A new exhibition explores the ways that Tudor England absorbed the artistic styles of the Continent and made them its own
Current and coming: Ghosts of art at the Getty
A show at the Getty explores the biggest waste of time in the history of art
ANTIQUES in the Beginning
Part II: The enterprising editor Alice Winchester