The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts is revisiting the grand era of ocean liner travel.
100th birthday tributes to Andrew Wyeth
How three museums are celebrating the 100th birthday of Andrew Wyeth.
Flowers of Death
A powerful exhibition looks at World War I through the lens of American Art.
The bouillabaisse of design influences on an early American silver soup tureen
A few years ago, one of two silver soup tureens ordered by Thomas Gibbons in 1810 came on the market, after remaining for nearly two centuries in the possession of his descendants.
A Classroom in the Age of Enlightenment
Revisiting Harvard’s Philosophy Chamber.
Dispatch 9: The LA Scene
The ninth edition of Dispatches, a new sporadical email newsletter about the arts of the past as they live in the present day by Elizabeth Pochoda, Advisory Editor, The Magazine ANTIQUES.
Handle with care
Introducing a new monthly column for aficionados of ceramics and glass.
Getting hitched: The St. John Altarpiece
With its tenderly human tableaux painted on a golden background, the St. John Altarpiece, attributed to Francescuccio Ghissi (active 1359–1374), was a gem of Italian art at the dawn of the Renaissance. But at some point in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, the altarpiece was sawn apart to separate its nine constituent panels.
Of an artist dying young
Frédéric Bazille at the National Gallery of Art.