Form watches from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Curious Objects: Dealer Stuart Feld: An “Expert in Everything” and an early American linen press
Benjamin Miller caught up with Hirschl & Adler Galleries president Stuart Feld in this second episode of The Magazine ANTIQUES’ podcast Curious Objects. In question was a Boston-made neoclassical linen press, which served as entry point into a discussion about provenance and the more general ins-and-outs of antiquing.
Handle with Care #3
A new installment of our web-only column on ceramics and glass.
Ceramics dynamic
The only thing more remarkable than John Bullard’s studio pottery collection is how quickly he became a connoisseur of the field.
Dispatch 11: Not fade away
The eleventh edition of Dispatches, a new sporadical email newsletter about the arts of the past as they live in the present day by Elizabeth Pochoda, Advisory Editor, The Magazine ANTIQUES.
The bouillabaisse of design influences on an early American silver soup tureen
A few years ago, one of two silver soup tureens ordered by Thomas Gibbons in 1810 came on the market, after remaining for nearly two centuries in the possession of his descendants.
Setting the stage
The refurbishment of an 1855 theater and arts center is the latest milestone in the renaissance of Hudson, New York.
And that’s the way it isn’t
Anxiety about fake news has also been greeted with bemusement by historians, who note that the phenomenon is hardly new.
Whose history is it?
The National Museum of African
American History and Culture reshapes our nation’s story one artifact at a time
Superfluity & Excess: Quaker Philadelphia falls for classical splendor
The fruits of extensive research on Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s 1808 house and furniture for William and Mary Waln begin with their impact on the aesthetic of the city itself