What the editors of The Magazine ANTIQUES are looking at this week
Openings and Closings: December 9 to December 15
Check out what’s going on online and in person at museums across the country and abroad!
William Hodgson of London and Richmond: The Payne Limner Revealed
Hodgson seems to have been a
true jack-of-all-trades. In addition
to portraits, miniatures, and hairwork for jewelry, he supplied composition ornament and carved architectural woodwork for buildings.
Current and Coming: What’s Up in Colonial Williamsburg
Count Colonial Williamsburg among the cultural institutions that had to settle for much more muted celebrations this year thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.
Wandering Eye: An eye for giving
What the editors of The Magazine ANTIQUES are looking at this week
Openings and Closings: December 2 to December 8
Check out what’s going on this week online and in person at museums in the U.S. and abroad!
New Light: A Window on Mrs. Hackley and Her Greenwood Seminary
“Mahala Jameson marked this sampler under the direction of Mrs Hackley A D 1818.”
Object Lesson: Norton Pottery of Vermont
Norton pottery, Jamie Franklin, curator of the Bennington Museum, tells us, predates the state of Vermont itself by six years.
Openings and Closings: November 25 to December 1
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Personal Space: Synapse Judgment
A neuroscientist ponders the collecting impulse.