For much of human history, people were forced to imagine what the moon was really like. Was it flat like a disk? Made of cheese? Was it inhabited?
Thierry Mugler at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
The show paints a compelling portrait of the freewheeling and creative nature of late twentieth-century haute couture, but it’s really about an idea
Tiffany church windows at the Driehaus Museum
Chicago was very good to Louis Comfort Tiffany and the artist-designers who passed through his studio
Editor’s Letter–September/October 2019
The cover for this issue is fun, charming, and cheerful, and there are very few occasions, in my estimation, on which fun, charm, and cheer are not welcome
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 9/2/19–9/8/19
See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world
Curious Objects: Another Man’s Treasure–Frank Levy discusses a Suite of Tapestry-Upholstered Furniture
This month, Ben and Michael pay a visit to one of the New York antiques world’s preeminent galleries, Bernard & S. Dean Levy on 84th Street
New and on view at the American Folk Art Museum
The want for space is now being addressed at the museum’s main exhibition site at 2 Lincoln Square in Manhattan, with the inauguration of new “gallery”
Revolutionary Renaissance Man
Looking past his famous ride, the American Antiquarian Society charts the career of Paul Revere as an artist and entrepreneur
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 8/26/19–9/1/19
See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world
Manet’s idea of beauty at the Art Institute of Chicago
“La femme,” Edgar Degas once opined, “en général est laide”: women, in general, are ugly.