James Gardner retells and retraces the evolution of one of the world’s most complex architectural palimpsests with elegance, economy, and wit.
Curious Objects: Is it real? A Caravaggio Rediscovered
If you find an Old Master artwork in your attic, how can you be sure it isn’t fake? This month Ben and Michael consider the case of Judith and Holofernes—a painting attributed to Caravaggio that’s being sold on June 27 by French auctioneer Marc Labarbe—calling expert Eric Turquin and art critic James Gardner to the stand.
Guest Editor’s Letter – Cara Zimmerman
A letter from our guest editor for the July/August 2025 issue. ⬬
Exhibitions: Georgian Portraiture in New Haven
If Mitt Romney had beaten Barack Obama in 2012, he would have the distinction of being the only American president with an important Old Master painter in his ancestry, having descended from George Romney, one of the finest portraitists in eighteenth-century England and the subject of the new exhibition, Romney: Brilliant Contrasts in Georgian England, at the Yale Center for British Art. ⬬
Exhibitions: Marsden Hartley in New Mexico
For someone who proudly called himself the “painter of Maine,” Marsden Hartley certainly strayed far from the part of the world where he was born and raised and where he died. ⬬
Magazine July/August 2025
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! JULY/AUGUST 2025 Guest Editor’s Letter Cara Zimmerman Luminary Infinite Iterations: A tribute to the remarkable Bernard L. Herman. ObjectsBlowin’ in the Wind: On the complex origins of whirligigs, a seaside artform that unfolded from the dying whaling industry. Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle PerspectivesMitch’s Musings: A coveted antique shows itself …
Publisher’s Letter: November/December 2024
Publisher Don Sparacin welcomes the November/December 2024 issue.
Magazine May/June 2024
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! MAY/JUNE 2024 Publisher’s Letter Don Sparacin Field NotesNature’s Child Elizabeth Pochoda Current and ComingThe Met’s reinstalled Wang Galleries; sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French in conversation; American paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Maynard Dixon’s Nevada; Venetian glass in Virginia; O’Sullivan’s Old West at the Speed; …
Magazine January/February 2024
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2024 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Talking AntiquesExhibitors at New York’s Winter Show describe some of the exceptional offerings they will bring to this year’s edition at the Park Avenue Armory Field NotesThe Road to Redemption Elizabeth Pochoda Current and ComingFrench painter and textile artist Sonia Delaunay at the Bard Graduate …
Magazine November/December 2023
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2023 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Field NotesSerious Fun Elizabeth Pochoda Current and ComingImpressionism and 1930s art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mexican modernism in Dallas, Parisian modern art in Detroit, and Marie Laurencin’s portraits of the Paris demimonde at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia Object LessonLights from the Dark …