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
The Gentleman from Georgia: William N. Banks Jr., remembered
His real interest was in social history. It was the architecture first, then the people and their stories. I don’t remember anyone ever telling Bill what to write about. He chose his topics, and they were consequently connected to his heart and mind.
At home in modernism: The John C. Waddell collection of American design (From our Archives)
Waddell’s New York City apartment is filled with striking examples of American design from between the wars
African Art in a fresh context
As they are with their collections of Native American art, many museums are rethinking the way they present, describe, and discuss the art of Africa
Hail the Met at 150
A cultural institution of transcendent richness and breadth, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York enters its sesquicentennial year
Living With Antiques: The Kentucky collection of Sharon and Mack Cox (From our Archives)
Step into Sharon and Mack Cox’s house in Richmond, Kentucky, and your eye might land first on the large stone fireplace at the end of their open living room
History in towns: Bristol Rhode Island (From our Archives)
On a blustery March day in 1813, James DeWolf pored over the ledgers in his counting house in Bristol, Rhode Island.