Independent collector Wade Lege on restoring a Mississippi bayou home and filling it with Americana.
A William Henry Rinehart Leander comes to the surface
William Henry Rinehart was among the considerable group of American artists—both sculptors and painters—who took up residence in Italy, perhaps initially for additional training and exposure to the world of classical antiquity, but ultimately because it was the ideal place to get commissions from both American and European tourists.
A stitch in wartime
The American Folk Art Museum presents a fascinating collection of quilts made by men at arms.
Flowers of Death
A powerful exhibition looks at World War I through the lens of American Art.
A Classroom in the Age of Enlightenment
Revisiting Harvard’s Philosophy Chamber.
The Magazine ANTIQUES Guide to Hudson, New York
Warren Street shops and galleries 1. 3FortySeven 347 Warren Street 518-391-3165 Repurposed industrial salvage, midcentury furnishings, far-flung exotica. Thursday 12-6, Friday-Saturday 12-7, Sunday 12-6 3fortyseven.com 2. 510 Warren Street Gallery 510 Warren Street 518-822-0510 Friday-Saturday 12-6, Sunday 12-5 510warrenstreetgallery.com 3. A Collector’s Eye 511 Warren Street 518-671-6130 Specializing in collectibles from 1895 through the 1960’s, including items from design periods of …
Shattering Effect
A new exhibition celebrates the Crystal Palace and the New York World’s Fair of 1853.
Gotham Ink
A new exhibition examines the long, colorful history of tattooing in New York.
Praiseworthy Percier at the Bard Graduate Center
The name of Charles Percier has for so long been linked with that of his collaborator and partner, Pierre François Fontaine, most notably for their Recueil de décorations intérieures, that the breadth of his individual accomplishments and talents as revealed in the current exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center is a bit mindboggling.
Missing pieces
Scholars hope to reunite all thirty paintings in Jacob Lawrence’s Struggle series, his epic of early American history. But the whereabouts of several panels is unknown.