What do a lock of Beethoven’s hair, a set design for the musical In the Heights, a rare Manet lithograph, and the earliest money in New York City have in common?
Editor’s letter: January/February 2022
Editor in Chief Gregory Cerio welcomes readers to the newest issue of ANTIQUES
Venice: Through a Glass, and Darkly
An art exhibition in DC explores the desuetude and crystalline rebirth of Venice in the late nineteenth century
Object lesson: Blue Plate Special
How spode willow pattern China became an enduring touchstone in decorative arts
Artist profile: Loom as Laboratory
Fiber artist Kay Sekimachi and her wondrous woven experiments
Village People
From a new book, a selection of astonishing and charming photographic portraits of country folk in early twentieth-century Sweden
Women’s Work
A surprising number of the Italian Old Masters were in fact Old Mistresses, as a new exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum demonstrates
Current and coming: Finally, Majolica at the BGC
On the long-awaited exhibition at Bard Graduate Center
Connecticut Idyll
How the American impressionist John Henry Twachtman made Fairfield County his own personal Giverny
Curious Objects: The Argument for Silver Tableware
James Boening, director of James Robinson, Inc., and Craig Kent, workshop manager in Sheffield, come on the pod to dish about the vital importance of age-old processes