Antiques of the WeekAll of us at The Magazine ANTIQUES are thinking of our many friends in the arts and antiques world who are facing overwhelming adversity. We hope you and your loved ones are safe and well. May the day come soon when all returns to normal, and we can once again get together at shows, shops, galleries, auctions, and …
Brothers in art and arms
Franz Marc and August Macke were both young artists—twenty-nine and twenty-three, respectively—when they first met in Munich in January 1910. Marc was Bavarian and Macke was from the Rhineland. They soon became friends and visited each other’s studios in and near Munich. They shared many affiliations, friends, and interests.
Curious Objects: Treasures of the Winter Antiques Show, Part 1
Benjamin Miller speaks with nine dealers who exhibited this past January at the antiques world’s marquee event: the Winter Antiques Show
Playing against type
At the artful, idiosyncratic publishing house Arion Press, surprise and delight are the stock in trade
A Philadelphia flaneur
Our former editor in chief takes us on a stroll to some of her favorite places in the city.
Glass Act: A new show at the Jewish Museum examines the life and work of art deco master Pierre Chareau
With its stunning façade composed almost entirely of textured glass blocks set in a steel framework, the Maison de Verre, or “House of Glass,” designed and built between 1927 and 1932, is one of the most remarkable buildings in Paris.
William H. Johnson in the Johnson Collection
Paintings by William Henry Johnson are rarely available in today’s art market, as most of his work is secure in museum and university collections. The Smithsonian American ArtMuseum, for instance, owns more than one thousand works by this noted African-American artist. Nevertheless, the relatively nascent Johnson Collection, located in Spartanburg, South Carolina, has been able to acquire five works by …
Collecting American samplers in Southern California
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, May/June 2013 | Best known for its expansive sandy beaches, stately palms, and glorious golden sunsets-as well as numerous superb collections of modern and contemporary art-Los Angeles is, perhaps unexpectedly, also home to a significant number of important and excitingly diverse American decorative arts collections. While some Southern California collectors have been amassing important holdings of …
Forces for the new: Collectors and the 1913 Armory Show
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, January/February 2013 | Fig. 14. Self-Portrait by van Gogh, c. 1887. Oil on canvas, 15 ¾ by 13 ⅜ inches. Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, gift of Philip L. Goodwin in memory of his mother, Josephine S. Goodwin. On February 17, 1913, the most important art event ever held in America-the International Exhibition of …
Amistad and after: Hale Woodruff’s Talladega murals
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, September/October 2012 | The new exhibition Rising Up: Hale Woodruff’s Murals at Talladega College offers unprecedented access to murals that for more than seventy years have resided at the historically black school in Alabama-and a compelling lesson in American history. It is the culmination of a collaboration between Talladega and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, which …