On the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s long-term project to breathe fresh life into its period rooms.
Off the Piazza, Another World
Celebrating a Venetian Institution, Caffè Florian at 300.
Curious Objects: “The Most Awesome Cup of All Time” . . . and 500 Other Objects
Dealer Adam Ambros and curator Ed Town join Ben to talk about a collection of mostly small objects made in Britain between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Slavery and Suffrage on Nantucket
To elaborate on the history of the suffragist movements, the Nantucket Historical Association has assembled a group of objects—paintings, literary paraphernalia, sculptures, and more—from those two successive waves of activism, which helped win the vote first for Blacks, then for women.
Baroque Pearls
A forthcoming exhibition and its catalog examine the art of the Old Masters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Genoa.
Hysterical Re-enactors
The Getty Museum has decided to publish a book Off the Walls to be released in the US on September 22.
Openings and Closings: September 16 to September 22
Check out what’s going on in person and online at museums in the U.S. and abroad!
A More Perfect Union
How curators interpret figural ceramics from long ago—or, indeed, walls full of portrait paintings—may seem of modest importance, compared to the seismic shifts in public consciousness that have occurred this year. But it’s of such building blocks that a new, egalitarian edifice will be built. It’s a project we will all need to work on, together.
Editor’s Letter September/October 2020
Faithful readers will know that The Magazine ANTIQUES has a special affection for the small city of Hudson in upstate New York.
Openings and Closings: September 9 to September 15
See what’s going on online this week at museums in the US and abroad!