In the bijou New Orleans apartment that decorator Thomas Jayne shares with his husband Rick Ellis, old things provide the bright backdrop to a gracious existence.
Field Notes: Sniffing the Zeitgeist
On visiting the Old Print Shop in New York, where lessons for the present abound in printed images from America’s political past.
Guest Editor’s Letter
It is an honor to serve as guest editor for this issue of The Magazine ANTIQUES while my long-time friend Mitchell Owens is on the mend. I suppose I got the gig because I am an antiquarian and decorator who weaves history into people’s lives—which I think is much the same goal as this magazine’s.
Exhibitions: Immortal Thread
The venerable tradition of French tapestry weaving, which has provided adornments for palace walls since medieval times, is brought to contemporary life in a new exhibition at the Clark Art Institute.
Art of the Deal
One among only a handful of European woman art dealers, Berthe Weill assisted in establishing the careers of some of the towering figures in modern art.
Books: Treasure House
John Soane’s Cabinet of Curiosities (Yale University Press, $45) certainly lives up to its title. For starters, it’s a visual delight, leading readers through the haunting, eclectic maze of a London relic: a house museum, frozen in amber since 1837, that displays its trove of forty thousand objects in arrangements fixed by the architect and collector who bequeathed it to the nation.
Masterworks at the Fenimore Art Museum
Over just eight months, the Fenimore Art Museum, with the support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, expanded its fine art collection with the acquisition of twenty-seven new paintings by American nonpareils. Thomas Eakins. Childe Hassam. John Singer Sargent. James McNeill Whistler. These are just some of the artists whose work is now included in the …
In Depth: Childe Hassam
A project already nearly fifty years in the making, the Hassam catalogue raisonné, spearheaded by the president and director of Hirschl and Adler Galleries, is, we feel, sure to reset scholarly opinion of the American impressionist.
Mughal Marvels
The opulent art of the Mughal Empire is the subject of an extensive exhibition being mounted by the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Sisters in Stitching
An exhibition at the Mississippi Museum of Art sheds new light on the intimate and enduring bonds formed through the quilts sewn by Black women in the South.