See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 8/26/19–9/1/19
See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world
Celebrating Walt Whitman’s 200th Birthday
Three New York cultural institutions—the New York Public Library, the Grolier Club, and the Morgan Library and Museum—as well as the Library of Congress, are putting on summer exhibitions to honor the poet of democracy, empathy, and “the body electric.”
Editor’s Letter: July/August 2019
The Statue of Liberty Museum opened in May on Liberty Island with much fanfare and celebrity wattage, Oprah Winfrey leading the lights.
Magazine July August 2019
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! JULY/AUGUST 2019 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Critical Thinking/Difficult IssuesDeclarations of Dependence Glenn Adamson Current and ComingBritish watercolors at the Gibbes, the Colmar Treasure at the Cloisters, Manet in Chicago, and more Museum VisitTwo Gems of Charm City: The Walters and the Baltimore Museum of Art form a powerful cultural tandem Brian …
Editor’s Letter: May/June 2019
There are some art exhibitions that transcend themselves. That is to say, the fact that the show is taking place is of greater significance than the art on view.
Magazine May June 2019
THE MAGAZINE MAY/JUNE 2019 Cover: In a Saint Croix town house, a collection of Imari porcelain is displayed on an island-made mahogany “cupping” table with an intricately carved splashboard. Photograph by Clemrick Bryan. Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Critical Thinking/Difficult IssuesMaker’s Mark Glenn Adamson Current and ComingKentucky tall-case clocks at the Speed Art Museum, retablos at Princeton, ironwork …
Magazine March – April 2019
THE MAGAZINE MARCH/APRIL 2019 COVER: Fruit knives and melon forks in the Furber service, made by the Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, 1879. RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Gorham Collection, gift of Textron Inc. Editor’s letterGregory Cerio Critical Thinking/Difficult IssuesMade in America Glenn Adamson Current and ComingHarvard celebrates the Bauhaus, William Hunter at the …
Editor’s Letter: March/April 2019
As I write this it is early February, yet I still feel a bit of lingering zing from our participation last month in the sixty-fifth annual Winter Show, which was billed as the event’s Sapphire Jubilee edition. The Magazine ANTIQUES has had an association with the show, held at the Park Avenue Armory, almost from the beginning.
Editor’s Letter: January/February 2019
We moved offices recently—and you all know what a joy moving can be. We’re now on the far west side of Midtown Manhattan, the neighborhood where two of New York’s great fictional characters resided: Nero Wolfe, the ingenious, orchidfancying, and largely housebound private detective, and his much more dynamic legman and chronicler, Archie Goodwin.