Shows, fairs, and auctions

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  Shows and auctions Jan 15 – 19 The LA Art Show; Los Angeles, CA    laartshow.com January 21 – 26 New York Ceramics Fair; New York City    newyorkceramicsfair.com January 22 – 26 Metro Show; New York, NY    metroshownyc.com January 24 – 26 Armory Antique Show; New York City     armoryantiqueshow.com January 23, 24 and 27 “Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver …

Exhibition openings through February 16

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Bamboo Yards, Kyobashi Bridge from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797-1858), 1857. Woodblock print. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.  Exhibition openings   January 28   “Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection”; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY “Stories in Sterling; Four Centuries of Silver in New York”; Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beam, …

Living history: A New England couple reanimates the past

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An  interior view signed by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) hangs above a veneered wal­nut dressing table, Boston, 1710-1730, formerly in the collection of Eric Martin Wunsch. On the dress­ing table, from left, are a delft hand warmer shaped like a book, Lon­don, probably Southwark, dated 1665 and initialed “B./I.E”; a delft jug with armorial decoration, Lon­don, 1699; and a Charles …

Wild at heart: Rediscovering the sculpture of Anna Hyatt Huntington

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Cranes Rising by Hun­tington, 1934. Bronze; height 45, width 16, depth 22 inches. Art Properties, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Colum­bia University in the City of New York, gift of the artist; photo­graph by Mark Ostrander, courte­sy of the Miriam and Ira D. Wal­lach Art Gallery. The energy of some art only be­comes apparent with the passage of time. Anna …

Piero della Francesca at the Met

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Four paintings (three from European institutions and one from a private collection in New York) created by Piero della Francesca for private devotion will be shown to­gether for the first time: St. Jerome and a Donor; Madonna and Child with Two Angels; Saint Jerome in a Landscape; and Madonna and Child. The exhibition follows upon the Frick Collection’s popular showing …

Early American Guitars at the Met

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Early American Guitars: The Instruments of C. F. Martin  Not for guitar lovers only, some thirty-five instruments from the Martin Museum in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, display the his­tory of the great American gui­tar  firm from its beginnings with the Viennese style instruments of C.F. Martin Sr., who came to this country, en­countered Spanish style guitars here, and combined the two styles …

Looking East at the Frist

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It is interesting to speculate on what Western art might look like had Japan not opened its ports to international trade in the 1850s, sending forth a flood of textiles, woodcuts, lanterns, screens, and other objects that captivated artists from Mary Cassatt and Claude Monet to Frank Lloyd Wright, who once described himself as “enslaved” by Japanese prints. Interest­ing and …

Upcoming shows and fairs in New York

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Armory Antique Show The Armory Antique Show is a crowd pleaser, offering a playful abun­dance of eclectic wares at a range of prices. Organizers promise roughly one hundred specialists in antique and vintage furniture, folk art, Americana, modern design, garden ornament, lighting, jewelry, silver, textiles, and ceramics. Under new management this year, the Armory Antique Show was recently acquired by …

Editor’s letter, January/February 2014

Editorial StaffOpinion

Is it too soon to propose a quota on installations of contempo­rary art in period settings? Yes, I know, everything is mashable these days, but not all these border crossings of present into past deserve a visa. I recently went in search of a silver box in one of the period rooms of a major museum (it wasn’t there). What …