A new treatise on the early American polymath David Rittenhouse draws attention to his elegant timepieces.
“We’re selling it, not renting it”
In this excerpt from a forthcoming memoir, an auction house veteran looks back on his beginning days in the trade.
Talking antiques: The 70th Winter Show
Exhibitors describe the offerings they will bring to the 70th edition of The Winter Show.
Changing Times, Changing Art
A current exhibition examines American realist art as a mirror on sweeping societal transformations in the early twentieth century.
Community Chest
Artist and artisan Madeline Yale Wynne and the founding of the Deerfield arts and crafts movement.
An Arts and Crafts Arcadia
Whether you know him as an artist, designer, printer, and key figure of the British arts and crafts movement; or as poet, novelist, translator of ancient Icelandic sagas; or as social critic, political activist, and pioneering preservationist, William Morris is one of the most enduring figures of Victorian England…
Selections from 100 years of Antiques covers: Early fall edition
A selection of ANTIQUES covers from early fall publications
Early Adopters
An exhibition at the Whitney Museum offers a showcase for the both the stars and the less-heralded talents of American art at the advent of modernism
In Memoriam: R. Scudder Smith (1935-2022)
The antiques world remembers founder and publisher of Antiques and the Arts Weekly, R. Scudder Smith
Curious Objects: Bonus Episode: Craft in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
In this special bonus episode of Curious Objects, Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Abraham Thomas, ceramist Roxanne Jackson, and painter Andrew LaMar Hopkins join host Benjamin Miller onstage at the 2022 edition of the Winter Show to grapple with the legacy of Walter Benjamin’s famous 1935 essay “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”