The Magazine Antiques

The Magazine Antiques, the leading publication covering the fine and decorative arts since 1922. In addition to articles drawn upon both European and American material, the bi-monthly magazine has a regular feature focused on the intersection of culture and travel.

The Magazine ANTIQUES

EDITOR’S LETTER

Facing the Past

Current and coming

Of Masks and Mascara

Eero Saarinen in Four Chairs

On books

Simple and artistic, Simple and good • ASSESSING THE BEST OF THE SATURDAY EVENING GIRLS’ PAUL REVERE POTTERY

Arts and Sciences • A new exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution examines the influence of naturalist Alexander von Humboldt on the American arts. In focus here: the landscapes of Frederic Church

Changing Tastes

A Melon of Minced Meat

Agent Provocateur • An exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art charts the influence of critic and collector Félix Fénéon through the work of the early modern artists he championed

Cactus Flower • As a major retrospective of her work tours the country, new depths are added to the emerging story of the pioneering American abstractionist Agnes Pelton and her art

Hail the Met at 150 • A cultural institution of transcendent richness and breadth, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York enters its sesquicentennial year.

Best of THE MET

Teviotdale: Martha Washington Slept Here • Past and present live hand-in-hand at a Georgian villa in the Hudson River valley

EVENTS • EXHIBITIONS SYMPOSIUMS LECTURES

CALENDAR OF SHOWS

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