Recently added articles from The Magazine Antiques:
At home with Christopher Dresser: living with antiques.
Dec 01, 2009; ... When you visit Janet and Lawrence Larose's New York dining room, you are surrounded by hundreds of objects designed by Christopher Dresser. They are artfully arranged on a series of shelves; teacups perch on lily-pad saucers; frogs leap around a bowl; butterflies flit across cloisonne ...
Elliza Greatorex and old New York, 1869.
Nov 01, 2009; ... In the spring of 1869 Eliza Greatorex was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design in New York. She was not, chronologically speaking, the first woman to be so honored, but her few antecedents had short and less remarkable careers, (1) so she is often known as the first woman ...
Gauguin rising: the bold, but mostly forgotten, Volpini exhibition at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889 has been re-created in the Cleveland Museum of Art's Paul Gauguin: Paris 1889, where it emerges as a turning point in the history of modern art.
Oct 01, 2009; ... That anyone even remembers the so-called Volpini exhibition of 1889--which has just been artfully re-created at the Cleveland Museum of Art--is a minor miracle. At the time, this modest Paris show, organized by Paul Gauguin and destined to introduce a new kind of art to the larger world, ...
Editor's letter.(on folk art)
Aug 01, 2009 ... We have grouped a promiscuous array of things in this issue under the broad umbrella of "folk art": schoolgirl drawings, trench art, manufactured advertising signs, as well as objects more conventionally agreed upon as "folky," such as carved walking sticks and weather vanes. ...
Wine as inspiration.(CURRENT and coming)(A Case for Wine: From King Tut to Today)
Aug 01, 2009; ... Since classical Greece, philosophers have been extolling the virtues of a glass of good wine. Socrates supposedly advised: "So far as drinking is concerned, you have my hearty approval; for wine does of a truth moisten the soul and lull our griefs to sleep." According to the ...