We asked exhibitors at the Winter 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. Barbara Israel Garden Antiques We are thrilled to be bringing a cache of extraordinary objects to the 2012 Winter Antiques Show, including …
New Light: More on Federal Bostonians and Their London Jeweler, Stephen Twycross
A continued study on the work of English jeweler Stephen Twycross.
Object lesson: Everyday Silver and the Triumph of Queen Anne
An exploration of Queen Anne tableware as everyday silver.
An Arts and Crafts Arcadia
Whether you know him as an artist, designer, printer, and key figure of the British arts and crafts movement; or as poet, novelist, translator of ancient Icelandic sagas; or as social critic, political activist, and pioneering preservationist, William Morris is one of the most enduring figures of Victorian England…
Living with antiques: A Labor of Love
Restoring the Daniel Hiester house, an eighteenth-century Pennsylvania gem
We’re No Angels: Women and allegory in the art of Mary Lizzie Macomber
Mary Lizzie Macomber was among the late nineteenth-century American artists who closely emulated the figurative work of the Pre-Raphaelites
Current and coming: Artistic DNA at the Salmagundi Club
All about an exhibition at the Salmagundi Club
Early Adopters
An exhibition at the Whitney Museum offers a showcase for the both the stars and the less-heralded talents of American art at the advent of modernism
Current and coming: Ghosts of art at the Getty
A show at the Getty explores the biggest waste of time in the history of art
On books: March/April 2022
A new authoritative biography of artist Florine Stettheimer