Nantucket, in cultural memory, will always be the island of whaling. But in spite of Herman Melville’s panegyrics, it was the center of the whaling world for only a brief historical moment.
Current and coming: In Chicago, the ceramic art of Ruth Duckworth
The Smart Museum of Art honors the famed ceramist in the first major show of her work since 2005.
“Gracious and artful devices for the adornment of life”
An excerpt from the new book English Needlework, 1600–1740, The Percival D. Griffiths Collection charts the origins of the twentieth-century reappraisal of the embroiderer’s art.
THE ONTEORA CLUB
At the northern end of the Catskills sits a mountainside social enclave with a peerless artistic and literary pedigree
Toasts and Testimonials
A collection of tributes, memories, comments, and reflections in honor of our 100th anniversary
Face to Face
A regional museum in western Maryland revisits the work of the early American portraitist Joshua Johnson
Wandering Eye: A Stitch in Time
What the editors of The Magazine ANTIQUES are looking at this week
A New Day at the PMA
A curator guides us through the revamped early American galleries at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
“Conformable to that of the Waters”: The search for the origins of an early Kentucky furniture group
The cabriole-legged furniture of
Kentucky is the result of the region’s particular environmental, cultural, social, and economic forces, a kind of terroir, made manifest in wood
Talking antiques: The Winter Show
Exhibitors preparing for the Winter Show’s first-ever virtual event reflect on their past years at the fair or highlight one exceptional object available this January