Want more ANTIQUES? Sign up for our newsletters!NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Critical Thinking/Difficult IssuesA Moon with a View Glenn Adamson Current and ComingJ. M. W. Turner watercolors at Mystic Seaport, women painters of the Dutch Golden Age in Washington, DC, and more Museum VisitAn eye-opening tour through four of the France’s great regional museums Brian Allen Object LessonAll about …
In Memoriam: Don Didier
A fire at his home in New Roads, Louisiana, this past summer took the life of James Donald Didier, one of the most idiosyncratic, engaging, and gifted minds in the world of American antiques and preservation.
Love illustrated books? Get to know the Alice Award
A short history of the Alice Award and this year’s recipient Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South by Mark Sloan and Mark Long.
Woman of the World
Neuville is among the first women artists working in America to leave a substantial body of work. This article sheds light on this fascinating figure, whose life reads like a compelling historical novel.
In memoriam: designer Ingo Maurer
The maker of lamps shaped like broken eggs, shattered plates, and orchids, or swarming with plastic insects, died last week.
Félix Vallotton’s uneasy art at the Met
Born to a conservative Protestant family in Lausanne, Switzerland, Félix Vallotton rather intrepidly moved to Paris in 1882 at the age of sixteen to study art.
Curious Objects: Badger Up! Collecting Baseball-abilia with Internet Star Randall
This month on Curious Objects Ben talks with Randall, the voice behind the viral video The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger, about his baseball card collection
A Short History of Ballparks
The industrial revolution saw several new structure types added to the urban lexicon, including ballparks, which are much on our minds at this time of year
Studio craft takes wing in San Francisco
The American studio craft movement—which gained momentum in the postwar period and married a devotion to the handmade and honest materials to a fine arts sensibility—flourished particularly vibrantly in California.
Worldly visions at NYU’s Grey Gallery
Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection, an exhibition on view at the Grey Gallery through December 7