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.

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No Laughing Matter

THE WINTER SHOW • We asked exhibitors at the Winter Show to highlight one exceptional object in their booths and describe it as they might to an interested collector. Here are the things they chose, along with their comments.

Variations on van Gogh

Art of the African American South in Toledo

The divine darkness of Ralph Eugene Meatyard

In Florida, Picasso in sunny climes

Rockefeller, Rivera, and Pedigreed Silver

Collecting Florida • HOW ONE COUPLE BUILT—AND LATER DONATED—A MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF ARTWORKS RELATED TO THEIR HOME STATE (WITH A TINY BIT OF HELP FROM ANTIQUES)

New York’s Merchant’s House Museum • A SLICE OF UPPER-CLASS NINETEENTH-CENTURY LIFE ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE

On books

Conjuring a Creole Past • THE PAINTINGS OF ANDREW LAMAR HOPKINS BLEND ROMANTICIZED CULTURAL HISTORY WITH A SCHOLARLY EYE FOR ART AND ANTIQUES

Looking at the Past through a Lens of Antique Glass

Further reading

ANTIQUES in the Beginning • Part I: Founding editor Homer Eaton Keyes

Living Large

ANTIQUES in the Modern World • A personal journey through a watershed year, 1922

Toasts and Testimonials • On the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of our magazine’s founding, curators and scholars, members of the art and antiques trade, collectors, and other readers sent us tributes, memories, comments, and reflections that testify to the immense good will and esteem that ANTIQUES has earned over the course of its history. You will find a selection below, published with our immense gratitude.

The Eyes HaveIt • A young antiques dealer and his peers offer their vision for the future of the trade

Selections from 100 years of Antiques covers Winter edition

THE ONTEORA CLUB • At the northern end of the Catskills sits a mountainside social enclave with a peerless artistic and literary pedigree

Women Art and the of the People • As the American Folk Art Museum enters its seventh decade, a salute to the women who made the institution and its collection great

Huey, Dewey, and Louis XV • A current exhibition explores the ways the French decorative arts of the ancien régime shaped the animated world of Walt Disney

Renovated Gowns and Counterfeit Corsets • An excerpt from a new book about fashion in the Gilded Age explores the underworld and afterlife of French couture in the United States

ARMS AND THE MAN • THE STORY OF THE WORCE ST ER ART MUSEUM’S HIGGINS ARMS AND ARMOR COLLECTION, AS IT EMBARKS ON A NATIONAL TOUR

Under round Mogdernist • A current exhibition explores the work of E. McKnight Kauffer, whose graphic designs for everything from British rail to book covers brought a dazzling verve to the art of advertisement

EVENTS • exhibitions symposiums lectures

At ANTIQUES, Collegiality Forged by J.R. Ewing and Twizzlers