A new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum explores the relationship between commerce and folk art in old New York
The Other O’Keeffe
Overshadowed by her sister Georgia, Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe gets her day in the sun with an exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art
Curious Objects: One Year in the Books
We’ve arrived at the first anniversary of the podcast and we’ve decided to treat this as an occasion for a little retrospection–this is after all a podcast about antiques–and give you a compilation of some of the more interesting moments from the last year of Curious Objects.
Curious Objects: #YourCuriousObjects
This time it’s your turn. For the last two months, we’ve asked listeners to post their curious objects on Instagram, tagging #mycuriousobject and @antiquesmag.
Caribbean twilight
The Jamaican artist John Dunkley invested colorful scenes of Caribbean life with a brooding sense of disquiet.
Eminent Victorian
One of Britain’s most beguiling treasures, Wightwick Manor exemplifies the artful tastes and inviting comforts of late nineteenth-century country life
Here there be dragons
An exhibition at the Morgan Library explores the meaning of monsters in medieval manuscripts
Going Wilde
Brooklyn Museum curator Barry Harwood creates his own personal period rooms in an aesthetic movement Shangri-la In the Hudson valley
The outsider artist as storyteller
Vestiges & Verse at the American Folk Art Museum
Shadows and scissors
The life and work of Everet Howard, early American silhouette artist.