In 1933 Florida Governor David Sholtz wrote that the states various exhibits at Chicago’s Century of Progress exposition were “but the ‘Show Rooms of the state,'” adding, we further invite you to visit the ‘Play Ground of the Nation.'” The Florida Tropical House, constructed for the Home and Industrial Arts Group section of the exposition and built alongside ten other homes on the shores of Lake Michigan, was one such showroom.
Endnotes: Money in the bank
Laura Beach closes out our latest issue
Endnotes: April’s fool
Laura Beach wraps up our April issue
“We’re selling it, not renting it”
In this excerpt from a forthcoming memoir, an auction house veteran looks back on his beginning days in the trade.
Magazine July/August 2023
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! JULY/AUGUST 2023 Editor’s Letter Gregory Cerio Field NotesBlind Spots Elizabeth Pochoda Current and ComingA self-taught artist in the internment camps; the sculpture of William Edmondson at Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation ; women of the Hudson River school at the Thomas Cole House; Hector Guimard, Architecte d’art, at the Driehaus; and this …
Digital doings: From Shakers to Conquistadors
From Shakers to Conquistadors
Editor’s Letter: September/October 2022
Editor-in-Chief Gregory Cerio welcomes us to the latest issue of ANTIQUES
In Memoriam: R. Scudder Smith (1935-2022)
The antiques world remembers founder and publisher of Antiques and the Arts Weekly, R. Scudder Smith
Magazine May/June 2022
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! MAY/JUNE 2022 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Field NotesSpeaking Volumes at the Morgan Library Elizabeth Pochoda Current and Coming J.M.W Turner goes to Boston, an Escher Retrospective in Houston, and lost Roman murals remembered at the Getty Digital Doings Chatting from Winter in Spring, a Curious Cupid, and More Sammy Dalati Field …
Magazine Jan/Feb 2022
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2022 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Critical Thinking/Difficult Issues