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

Hitting Snooze

Art and the American Metropolis at Bowdoin

Etta and Henri at the Baltimore Museum of Art

Agony and Ecstasy at the Hispanic Society

Towers of Power at the Fralin

Outsider artist Joseph Yoakum at MoMA

Finally, Majolica at the BGC

Hoosier Ingenuity, Crafty Frenchmen, and Silver Sleuths

Magnifying Glass • HOW TWO COLLECTORS CHANNELED THEIR PASSIONATE INTEREST IN ANTIQUE AMERICAN GLASS INTO THE MAKING OF A REGIONAL MUSEUM IN PENNSYLVANIA

On books

Loom as Laboratory • FIBER ARTIST KAY SEKIMACHI AND HER WONDROUS WOVEN EXPERIMENTS

Blue Plate Special • HOW SPODE WILLOW PATTERN CHINA BECAME AN ENDURING TOUCHSTONE IN THE DECORATIVE ARTS

Birds of a Feather

Family Saga • An exhibition at the Jewish Museum traces the triumphs and tragedies of an eminent European banking dynasty through the art its members collected

Small Wonders • All about Netsuke

Connecticut Idyll • How the American impressionist John Henry Twachtman made Fairfield County his own personal Giverny

Women’s Work • A surprising number of the Italian Old Masters were in fact Old Mistresses, as a new exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum demonstrates

Village People • From a new book, a selection of astonishing and charming photographic portraits of country folk in early twentieth-century Sweden

Venice: Through a Glass, and Darkly • An art exhibition in Washington, DC, explores two facets of the water-bound Italian city in the late nineteenth century: its desuetude and crystalline rebirth

EVENTS • exhibitions symposiums lectures

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