How the art of El Greco bent every technical rule of Old Masters painting
This Week’s Destinations for Digital Culture
How to engage with the arts on your phone or laptop
In Memoriam: William H. Gerdts
Scholar, curator, writer, teacher, collector, and preeminent historian of American art
Looking back at Byrdcliffe
The idealism that sparked the arts and crafts movement born in the late nineteenth century prompted many utopian attempts at communal living and making.
Living with antiques: A California family gathers its history in a coast-to-coast collection of Americana (From our Archives)
You might say that this story begins with a canary-yellow jug.
Critical Thinking/Difficult Issues: Into the Void
We’ve been here before . . . sort of. A century ago, from 1918 to 1919, an influenza pandemic swept across the globe.
More Destinations for Digital Culture
See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world
Living with Antiques: Eighteenth-Century Modern (From our Archives)
The story of Montgeoffroy is bound up with the individual for whom it was built: Louis Georges Érasme, marquis de Contades.
Radical: Italian Design at MFAH
Utopian ideals took center stage at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston with the February opening of Radical: Italian Design, 1965-1985, The Dennis Freedman Collection
Editor’s Letter–May/June 2020
For weeks now, the staff of The Magazine ANTIQUES has been sheltering in place, in the now-familiar phrase.