Throughout the fair, we’ll bring you selections of what’s on offer. Today: Boffo Booths, Part 1
Magazine January/February 2020
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2020 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Critical Thinking/Difficult IssuesLess Than Mint Condition Glenn Adamson Current and ComingEarly Wendell Castle designs at R and Company, Jacob Lawrence’s Struggle series at the Peabody Essex Museum, studio craft at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and more Talking AntiquesExhibitors highlight their favorite offerings at the …
In Memoriam: Don Didier
A fire at his home in New Roads, Louisiana, this past summer took the life of James Donald Didier, one of the most idiosyncratic, engaging, and gifted minds in the world of American antiques and preservation.
Taking in the scene at the Delaware Antiques Show
We dropped in for opening night at the 55th annual edition of the Delaware Antiques Show.
Highlights of the 54th annual Delaware Antiques Show
We took in opening night at the 54th annual Delaware Antiques Show in Wilmington, presented by the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. It’s a spectacular edition of this venerable event, and here are a few highlights: Newsom & Berdan Antiques & Folk Art has this beautiful 18th century appliqué mat on offer. Found in New Hampshire, it depicts a strange …
Dispatch 7: The Past Resurgent
The seventh edition of Dispatches, a new sporadical email newsletter about the arts of the past as they live in the present day by Elizabeth Pochoda, Advisory Editor, The Magazine ANTIQUES.
Farther afield: TEFAF, BADA, and the Salon du Dessin
Europe puts its best foot forward to welcome the massive influx of international collectors and dealers who head there each spring. The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) Maastricht attracts the largest crowds and most attention but The British Antiques Dealers’ Association (BADA) annual fair in london and Paris’s tailored Salon du Dessin, both of which follow closely on TEFAF’s heels, …
Talking antiques at the Philadelphia Antiques Show
We asked exhibitors at the Philadelphia Antiques Show to highlight one exceptional object in their booths and describe it as they might to an interested collector. Here are the things they chose, along with some of their comments. Arthur Guy Kaplan Nothing evokes spring and the promise of summer like butterflies flitting around the garden. From ancient times to the …
On the money
By Laura Beach Yorkshire calendar and almanac Calendar and almanac, probably York or Ripon, Yorkshire, England, c. 1425. Ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment, each page 6 by 4 1/8 inches. WHY: Priced in the six figures by Les Enluminures of Paris, New York, and Chicago, this calendar and almanac of about 1425, with prognostications in Latin, illustrates the English …
How America found its face: Portrait miniatures in the New Republic
By Elle Shushan; from The Magazine ANTIQUES, April 2009. The stunning events of July 1804 were almost unfathomable for the citizens of the new American republic. One Founding Father had fatally wounded another. Alexander Hamilton was dead and Aaron Burr would be indicted for murder. The duel and its aftermath marked a turning point in American culture. Fig. 17. Thomas Cole …