The Speed Art Museum in Louisville, exhibition, Careful, Neat, and Decent: Arts of the Kentucky Shakers, examines the material culture of the Shakers.
A Man of Parts: The house and collection built by the visionary director of the Wadsworth Atheneum
Understanding the house means understanding the man who created it, the man who at twenty-seven became acting director of the Wadsworth Atheneum and made the country’s oldest public art museum the most talked about arts institution in the country.
“Serenity, even a kind of nobility”: Notes on a trailblazing-yet-forgotten American artist, Alethea Hill Platt
Reviewers called Plattʼs landscapes “brilliant in tone but true to the colors found in sky and plain and vale,” and praised her interiors for “quaintness of type and richness of color in shadowy corners and firelit hearths”
New Light: A Window on Mrs. Hackley and Her Greenwood Seminary
“Mahala Jameson marked this sampler under the direction of Mrs Hackley A D 1818.”
Built Environment: A Masterpiece Made by Graft
Amid the pale, Grecian mediocrity of Lower Manhattan’s civic center stands a monument of unaccountable excellence, the Tweed Courthouse at 52 Chambers Street.
Critical Thinking/Difficult Issues: While the Iron is Hot
I wanted to show that antiques have something to say, not only about their own moment—in the more or less distant past—but also about our own.
Editor’s Letter–January/February 2020
As is customary in journalism when the pages of the calendar are turned, I’d like to take a look back at the year gone by.
In Memoriam: Don Didier
A fire at his home in New Roads, Louisiana, this past summer took the life of James Donald Didier, one of the most idiosyncratic, engaging, and gifted minds in the world of American antiques and preservation.
Editor’s Letter: May/June 2019
There are some art exhibitions that transcend themselves. That is to say, the fact that the show is taking place is of greater significance than the art on view.
Big News!
We have important news: our publisher, Don Sparacin, and I have acquired The Magazine ANTIQUES from Art News Media, LLC. We are now independent, and we intend to go places.