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, …
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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.
Curious Objects: Noah Wunsch Was Born to Collect
In this episode of Curious Objects, Ben takes the measure of Noah Wunsch’s treasure—which ranges from a 60 BC Visigothic belt buckle to the zany artwork of Genieve Figgis—and learns how the collection was built.
Toasting a Master
Whether you know him personally or just by reputation, there’s no question that Jonathan Leo Fairbanks is a lion in the worlds of American decorative arts and craft. Recently, to toast him on his retirement as director of the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts, the museum published American History, Art, and Culture: Writings in Honor of Jonathan Leo Fairbanks.
Visions of Vincent
A new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and two current films testify to our enduring fascination with van Gogh’s life and art
Rethreading Her Needle
A cosmopolitan eye for color and line took embroiderer Mariska Karasz from the world of fashion design to that of fine art
Art Deco in the Toddlin’ Town
Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern America, distributed for the Chicago Art Deco Society by Yale University Press, provides an occasion for examining the city’s art deco history. Through five scholarly essays and 101 notable objects and buildings, Art Deco Chicago reevaluates art deco’s and Chicago’s cultural and economic contributions to the United States during the Machine Age.
Hail, Columbia!
America’s oldest steamboat heads for a new life on the Hudson River
City Folk
A new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum explores the relationship between commerce and folk art in old New York