What the editors of The Magazine ANTIQUES are looking at this week
Wandering Eye:A Look Below the Surface
What the editors of The Magazine ANTIQUES are looking at this week
Auction Notes: Gems on the Block
Specialists from auction houses around the country tell us about choice lots in their upcoming sales
“An Unsuspected Man of Genius”
The Cincinnati Art Museum examines the career of a forgotten favorite son, the artist Frank Duveneck.
The Gardens of Forth House
The romantic garden fostered emotional reactions with features such as rugged landscape contours that led to abrupt and daring compositions, mysterious Gothic follies, and irregularly shaped bodies of water—all meant to provoke a sense of spiritual awakening.
Cajun and Creole, the rough and the fine (From our Archives)
Over the past ten years Wade Lege has rescued some of the disappearing landmarks of his native Louisiana
This Week’s Destinations for Digital Culture: July 15 to 21
How to engage with the arts on your phone or laptop
Superfluity & Excess: Quaker Philadelphia falls for classical splendor (From our Archives)
By the middle of the eighteenth century the “greene Country Towne” founded by William Penn in 1682 was bustling with commercial and social activity
Museum Visit: French Provincial
Some of the best art museums in Europe are in small French cities from Normandy to the Riviera and from Brittany to the French Alps.
Encounters with Whistler, Waifs, and Kaiser Wilhelm
The painter Mary Rogers Williams, a baker’s daughter from Hartford, Connecticut, may be the only nineteenth-century woman artist whose thoughts and feelings are almost fully known.