What do a lock of Beethoven’s hair, a set design for the musical In the Heights, a rare Manet lithograph, and the earliest money in New York City have in common?
Editor’s letter: January/February 2022
Editor in Chief Gregory Cerio welcomes readers to the newest issue of ANTIQUES
Venice: Through a Glass, and Darkly
An art exhibition in DC explores the desuetude and crystalline rebirth of Venice in the late nineteenth century
ANTIQUES in the Beginning
On the founding editor of ANTIQUES: Homer Eaton Keyes
Object lesson: Blue Plate Special
How spode willow pattern China became an enduring touchstone in decorative arts
Artist profile: Loom as Laboratory
Fiber artist Kay Sekimachi and her wondrous woven experiments
Village People
From a new book, a selection of astonishing and charming photographic portraits of country folk in early twentieth-century Sweden
Current and coming: Finally, Majolica at the BGC
On the long-awaited exhibition at Bard Graduate Center
Connecticut Idyll
How the American impressionist John Henry Twachtman made Fairfield County his own personal Giverny
Current and coming: Towers of Power at the Fralin
Skyscraper Gothic is on view through December 31 at the Fralin!