The Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia opened on April 19th.
Dispatch 8: The invasion of the modern
The eighth 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.
Old guard avant-garde
In the Berkshires, two blue-blooded artists made a home for modernism in America.
Mad as Hellas at the Onassis Cultural Center
We think of the art of ancient Greece as the epitome of serene beauty and refinement, but a new exhibition at the Onassis Cultural Center in New York reveals how often deep, even combustible, feelings were expressed in the artifacts of the Hellenic civilization.
Lulu and the Shadow Catcher
An adventurous photographer and a Midwestern librarian—trailblazers both.
Metal of Honor
Portrait medals at the Frick.
Dispatch 7: The Past Resurgent
The seventh 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.
Edgewater, paradise for a preservationist
What the name of the house lacks in poetry it makes up in simplicity.
The City of Hudson, New York
In September 1609, in search of a northwest passage to Asia, Henry Hudson and his crew sailed their ship the Half Moon up a course of water that the locals then called Mohicanituk (“River That Flows Both Ways”).
Clermont and the Livingston Family
They sit along the east bank of the Hudson River in Dutchess and Columbia counties like so many pearls on a necklace: some three dozen estates built by the Livingston family and their relations.