On visiting the Old Print Shop in New York, where lessons for the present abound in printed images from America’s political past.
Guest Editor’s Letter
It is an honor to serve as guest editor for this issue of The Magazine ANTIQUES while my long-time friend Mitchell Owens is on the mend. I suppose I got the gig because I am an antiquarian and decorator who weaves history into people’s lives—which I think is much the same goal as this magazine’s.
Exhibitions: Immortal Thread
The venerable tradition of French tapestry weaving, which has provided adornments for palace walls since medieval times, is brought to contemporary life in a new exhibition at the Clark Art Institute.
Art of the Deal
One among only a handful of European woman art dealers, Berthe Weill assisted in establishing the careers of some of the towering figures in modern art.
Masterworks at the Fenimore Art Museum
Over just eight months, the Fenimore Art Museum, with the support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, expanded its fine art collection with the acquisition of twenty-seven new paintings by American nonpareils. Thomas Eakins. Childe Hassam. John Singer Sargent. James McNeill Whistler. These are just some of the artists whose work is now included in the …
In Depth: Childe Hassam
A project already nearly fifty years in the making, the Hassam catalogue raisonné, spearheaded by the president and director of Hirschl and Adler Galleries, is, we feel, sure to reset scholarly opinion of the American impressionist.
Sisters in Stitching
An exhibition at the Mississippi Museum of Art sheds new light on the intimate and enduring bonds formed through the quilts sewn by Black women in the South.
Still Life à l’Antique
Start with the title. That’s the strategy of Patrick Bell, co-owner of Olde Hope Antiques on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, and it’s the tack he took when planning a new exhibition with artist, friend, and collaborator Laurene Krasny Brown.
Talking Antiques: The 2025 Winter Show
The Magazine Antiques is excited to announce the upcoming 2025 Winter Show to take place beginning January 24 through February 2, 2025 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City.
Mistress of Her Domain
Emerging during the late Middle Ages, the domestic space known as the estrado kept pace with the ever-increasing reach and buying power of well-to-do households in Spain and the Spanish Americas, becoming a showcase for fineries from the world over. But as a female-coded area, it provided women a degree of autonomy and self-expression not generally possible in Continental or colonial society of the time.