Over the past ten years Wade Lege has rescued some of the disappearing landmarks of his native Louisiana
Museum Visit: Parlor Room Talk
In New Orleans, an intact Antebellum decor tells the tales of many lives, free and enslaved
In Houston, Francis Bacon’s last works of art
Nearly 30 years after his death, Bacon’s lessons in nihilism and obsession retain their power to shock
Spirit Feel: A New Orleans Collection (From our Archives)
This is a house frequently visited by curators- more than thirty international institutions have borrowed objects from the Davis collection-but newcomers are excused if they double check the address upon arrival
Magazine March – May June 2020 – The Magazine Antiques
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! MAY/JUNE 2020 This page will be updated as articles from the current issue are uploaded to our website. Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Critical Thinking/Difficult IssuesInto the Void Glenn Adamson Current and ComingByrdcliffe arts and crafts colony, African art at the Brooklyn Museum, and needlework at the Museum of International Folk Art …
Radical: Italian Design at MFAH
Utopian ideals took center stage at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston with the February opening of Radical: Italian Design, 1965-1985, The Dennis Freedman Collection
Feverish Architectural Fantasies at the Menil Drawing Institute
Jean-Jacques Lequeu’s frustrated architectural ambitions found their outlet in bold, sometimes sexually-charged drawings
Curious Objects: Historic Preservationist Wade Lege on Living in a Collection
Independent collector Wade Lege on restoring a Mississippi bayou home and filling it with Americana.
Ceramics dynamic
The only thing more remarkable than John Bullard’s studio pottery collection is how quickly he became a connoisseur of the field.