In Navajo (Diné) weaving tradition, women are the artists—their ancestors were taught to weave by a foremother, the Spider Woman, with whose silk the universe itself came into being. ⬬
Exhibitions: A Space Age Dinner
Save the date for a dinner party hosted by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston because it is going to take you back all the way to the 1950s. ⬬
Exhibitions: TickTock
In March 2003, The Magazine ANTIQUES published an entire issue dedicated to Hillwood Museum and Gardens, the monumental DC estate of Marjorie Merriwether Post. ⬬
Exhibitions: When the Gods Come to Visit
In nineteenth-century India, the gods of the Hindu pantheon arrived in many homes through colorful lithographic prints. ⬬
Exhibitions: À la mode
Fashionistas with a taste for the couture of the past often appreciate the work of John Singer Sargent, whose renowned Gilded Age portraits recorded the luxurious garments of New York and Paris’s elite. ⬬
Exhibitions – Feel The Magic
Tanya Minhas’s childhood memories are saturated in color. ⬬
The Object Ideal
If you’ve ever wondered what the perfect version of an everyday object looks like, you can see it in person at Robert Young Antiques in London this October. ⬬
Exhibitions: Green Mountain Magic
Magic realism was a distinctly American twentieth century genre in the sense that it constituted a unique merger of European surrealism of the 1920s and ’30s, with the long tradition of realist painting in the United States. ⬬
Exhibitions: A Room of Their Own
Peek around an elaborate wood screen and into a lush garden. It’s a watercolor by Anna Alma-Tadema, painted when she was nineteen. ⬬
Exhibition: Bottoms up in Cleveland
Be it a garnet-hued Barolo, a honey-colored Sauternes, or an everyday, ruby-red Côtes du Rhône, wine just seems to promise so much, whether that’s simply a nicer afternoon than one expected, or the possibility of love. ⬬