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Magazine July/August 2025
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! JULY/AUGUST 2025 Guest Editor’s Letter Cara Zimmerman Luminary Infinite Iterations: A tribute to the remarkable Bernard L. Herman. ObjectsBlowin’ in the Wind: On the complex origins of whirligigs, a seaside artform that unfolded from the dying whaling industry. Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle PerspectivesMitch’s Musings: A coveted antique shows itself …
Magazine May/June 2025
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! MAY/JUNE 2025 Guest Editor’s Letter Michael Diaz-Griffith Field NotesReading the Room Sarah Archer ObjectsString Theory: Once more familiar than the harpsichord, the salterio is being rediscovered by musicians drawn to its complexity, history, and spellbinding sound. Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle PerspectivesA roundtable with the next generation of decorative arts …
Cartier: Jeweler of Kings, King of Jewelers
This spring, jewelry lovers visiting the Victoria and Albert Museum in London may have difficulty choosing between the institution’s encyclopedic collection of ornaments and the stunning Cartier exhibition, opening to the public April 12, which features more than 350 objects.
Smoking Hot
Are Ozempic-thinned celebrities bringing you down? So what else is new? A century ago another form of appetite suppressant caught fire among females in the smart set—nicotine. As hourglass figures were supplanted by boyish frames, slim became the new ideal and smoking provided the means to get there.
Exhibitions: Paperweights on Parade
The Flint Institute of Arts (FIA) in Michigan is the ideal venue for the new exhibition A Symphony of Glass: Paperweights from the Ellis Collection.
Paper Caper
Imagine walking along your downtown street, ready to spend an afternoon shopping. But as you’re glancing into shop windows, you don’t see wool sweaters or cotton dresses—instead, it’s all paper.
Exhibitions: Out of Obscurity, into the Light
Works by artist Nancy Elizabeth Prophet are rare and seldom exhibited because fewer than two dozen are known to exist. Nearly all of them are included in Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I Will Not Bend an Inch, the first-ever museum survey devoted to this elusive American artist, whose important contributions to twentieth-century art, especially in the field of sculpture, have only lately been fully recognized.
Udotopia
Maverick, villain, libertine, genius. Austrian eyewear designer Udo Proksch has been known by many names, but the book excerpted here dives deeply into his archive, puts emphasis on his working methods, fecund productivity, and the undeniable impact he had on design in the twentieth century—and to this day.
Exhibitions: Late Bloomer
Although Rachel Ruysch is not exactly a household name, she is hardly anonymous: while she lived, she was an honored painter in the Old Masters tradition, and she has had her admirers ever since her death in 1750, at the age of eighty-three.