A selection of ANTIQUES covers from early fall publications
Object lesson: The Art of the Game
Board games have been a part of human socializing since the earliest days of civilization
Sculptor Sui Generis
Literally peerless, Auguste Rodin brought a supremely idiosyncratic sensibility to bear on the making of art
The Origins of Edgefield Pottery
A curator at the Metropolitan Museum examines the history of the famed nineteenth-century South Carolina ceramics
Curious Objects: The Story of Bélizaire, Pt. 2: Provenance
Last week we took a close look at Bélizaire the person, and his tortured life-path through antebellum Louisiana society. This week we examine the painting that is the reason anyone knows Bélizaire’s name in the first place, and follow the twists and turns by which it traveled from the studio of Jacques Amans in 1837 to the collection of Jeremy Simien today.
Dealer profile: The Virginian
Taylor Thistlethwaite believes that antiques and vintage designs give collectors a sense of place, a sense of history, and a sense of belonging
On books: September/October 2022
A memoir from the late French illustrator Pierre Le-Tan
English Lessons
A new exhibition explores the ways that Tudor England absorbed the artistic styles of the Continent and made them its own
Curious Objects: The Story of Bélizaire, Pt. 1: Biography
This is Bélizaire, and at some point around the turn of the twentieth century—for reasons unknown—his portrait was covered up…
November/December 2022
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2022 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Field NotesPhiladelphia Stories Elizabeth Pochoda Current and ComingAndrew LaMar Hopkins’s first museum retrospective, Morris Hirschfield re-examined at AFAM, and Edward Hopper’s New York at the Whitney In MemoriamSmiling with Scudder: Remembering R. Scudder Smith (1935–2022), publisher of the Newtown Bee and founder of Antiques and …