The Getty Museum has decided to publish a book Off the Walls to be released in the US on September 22.
A More Perfect Union
How curators interpret figural ceramics from long ago—or, indeed, walls full of portrait paintings—may seem of modest importance, compared to the seismic shifts in public consciousness that have occurred this year. But it’s of such building blocks that a new, egalitarian edifice will be built. It’s a project we will all need to work on, together.
Editor’s Letter September/October 2020
Faithful readers will know that The Magazine ANTIQUES has a special affection for the small city of Hudson in upstate New York.
Art in Bloom: Garden Openings at Museums and Historic Houses
While many American cultural institutions are attempting limited re-openings with fingers crossed and bated breath, for the utltracautious aesthete, museum gardens and sculpture parks offer and alternative way to enjoy art, beauty, and a little serenity
The Gentleman from Georgia: William N. Banks Jr., remembered
His real interest was in social history. It was the architecture first, then the people and their stories. I don’t remember anyone ever telling Bill what to write about. He chose his topics, and they were consequently connected to his heart and mind.
Catesby: Man of Many Talents (From our Archives)
A full century before John James Audubon published his Birds of America, an Englishman, Mark Catesby, brought out two folio volumes of what he grandly named Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands
Mad Scientist (From our Archives)
Eugen Gabritschevsky was born in Moscow, in December of 1893, into a bourgeois, cultured, and highly educated family.
“Miss Dimock is not orthodox at all” (From our Archives)
William Glackens was regarded as a modern artist by the standards of his day; the woman he married would have been considered thoroughly modern even by the standards of our own
East Meets West
An exhibition explores the affinities between a pair of American artists whose works have each become iconic representations of a region
Early Pittsburgh Glass-Houses (From our Archives)
While the records now seem to be quite clear, there has been considerable discussion regarding the earliest established glass-house in Pittsburgh