Two longtime friends and colleagues in their passion for American decorative arts discuss a major acquisition to mark the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Met’s American Wing.
Field Notes: Sniffing the Zeitgeist
On visiting the Old Print Shop in New York, where lessons for the present abound in printed images from America’s political past.
Talking Antiques: The 2025 Winter Show
The Magazine Antiques is excited to announce the upcoming 2025 Winter Show to take place beginning January 24 through February 2, 2025 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City.
Portrait Painter, Physician, and Lover
The Life of Samuel Broadbent, 1759–1828.
Object lesson: Bringing Stained Glass Up Close
The multi-dimensionality of mosaic glasswork.
Current and coming: Tornado watch in Michigan
John Steuart Curry’s Midwestern paintings at the Muskegon Museum of Art.
Masterpieces on the Mersey
Thanks to the discernment of a viscount, Lever Art Gallery preserves one of the most comprehensive collections of fine and decorative arts in the UK.
Ohio Stately
The Hay-McKinney Mansion in Cleveland offers a glimpse of midwestern opulence at the turn of the twentieth century.
Old Wine, New Bottle
A collection of historical art and design finds a happy home in a modernist tower, thanks to the ministrations of interior designer Thomas Jayne.
On books: Book of Hours
A new treatise on the early American polymath David Rittenhouse draws attention to his elegant timepieces.










