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

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Current and coming

From Admirals to Aesthetes • THE ONETIME OFFICES OF THE FRENCH NAVY HAVE BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO PARIS’S NEWEST DECORATIVE ARTS MUSEUM

Bogus Cinderellas and Curated Curios

Eyre Hall in Virginia • ALL ABOUT THE HISTORIC ESTATE AT THE SOUTHERN TIP OF THE DELMARVA PENINSULA

Scarves and Stars • THE POLITICAL AMERICANA FASHIONS OF FRANKIE WELCH

On books

Ships of Bone and Hair • THE ART OF FRENCH PRISONERS OF THE POST-REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEONIC WARS

ANTIQUES in the Beginning • Part II: The enterprising editor Alice Winchester

Black dolls • A new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society prompts an expanded reprise of one our all-time favorite articles

100 years of Antiques covers Early Spring edition

A Simple Plan • The Paul Schweikher House outside Chicago stands as a testament to one architect’s mastery of space and material

Casting a Cold Eye on Life and Death

Across 110th Street • A new exhibition examines the life and work of photographer and writer Carl Van Vechten, controversial chronicler of the Harlem Renaissance

EVENTS • exhibitions symposiums lectures

Kith and Kiln: Making a Gift to Fellow Collectors and Scholars • The title says it all: Gifts from the Fire: American Ceramics from the Collection of Martin Eidelberg. On view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until October 30, this exhibition showcases exceptional examples of American ceramics given to the Met over the years by renowned collector and scholar Martin Eidelberg. Below, the Met's Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, curator of the show and coauthor with Eidelberg of the accompanying catalogue, talks with the collector.