The romantic garden fostered emotional reactions with features such as rugged landscape contours that led to abrupt and daring compositions, mysterious Gothic follies, and irregularly shaped bodies of water—all meant to provoke a sense of spiritual awakening.
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World’s Most Famous Museum, a new book by James Gardner
James Gardner retells and retraces the evolution of one of the world’s most complex architectural palimpsests with elegance, economy, and wit.
Teaching Tolerance through the Detritus of Intolerance
Lessons from the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia in Michigan.
Openings and Closings: October 21 to October 27
Check out what’s going on online and in person this week at museums across the U.S.!
Curious Objects: A Dalva Brothers Wonder Cabinet Turns Heads at Christie’s
Some 250 of the choicest items from the firm’s inventory are being offered at Christie’s this October, and Dalva Brother’s principal David Dalva III, along with Christie’s specialist Jody Wilkie, talk with Ben about the crème de la crème: a secretary-cabinet resplendent with Florentine pietra dura figurative panels and gleaming ormolu mounts, possibly handled by noted marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre.
A Visit to Kettle’s Yard
A London folk art dealer reflects on the inspiration he has drawn from the home of a scholar and art collector in Cambridge, England.
Openings and Closings: October 14 to October 20
See what’s happening at museums around the world online and in person this week!
The Sculpture of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
They called her the “sculptor of horrors.”
Five Peacocks from Master Enamelist Frank J. Marshall
Artist Frank Marshall pushed the traditional boundaries of enameling technique and arts and crafts design, creating a rich body of work around 1900.
Magazine September/October 2020
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter!SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Critical Thinking/Difficult IssuesA More Perfect Union Glenn Adamson Current and ComingGarden openings, slavery and women’s suffrage in Nantucket, and Girlhood in Washington, DC Farther AfieldOff the Piazza, Another World: Celebrating a Venetian institution, Caffè Florian at 300 James Gardner Object LessonThe Sculpture of Meta Vaux Warrick …









