THE MAGAZINEMAY/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 at the National Museum of African Art, …
Magazine March – April 2019
THE MAGAZINEMARCH/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 Yale Center for British Art, …
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.
Editor’s Letter: September/October 2018
“Do you read German?” The question was asked as my folks and I, a few weeks ago, were poking around a new shop near their home in the Hudson valley called Quittner Antiques. It almost startled me.
In Memoriam: Texas collector and patron of the arts William James Hill (1934 – 2018)
William J. Hill, fondly known to friends and acquaintances alike as Bill, was a sixth-generation Texan and a native of Houston. His city is culturally richer for his lifelong contributions to many institutions, including the Children’s Museum, the Harris County Heritage Society, Project Row Houses, the Menil Collection, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.