Recently added articles from The Magazine Antiques:
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 ...
American impressionism.(CURRENT and coming)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2009; ... American impressionism, in particular Connecticut impressionism, is the focus of the current exhibition at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut, which has recently been promised the major gift of the collection of its trustee Clement C. Moore. The collection, which will be ...
Degas and music.(CURRENT and coming)
Aug 01, 2009; ... It will probably not come as a surprise to many to learn that the French impressionist painter Edgar Degas enjoyed music and often attended performances several times a week. After all, the artist's sculpture The Little Fourteen-Year-Old-Dancer of about 1880 and his many paintings of ...
Hidden treasures: secrets of Great Britain.(FARTHER afield)
Aug 01, 2009; ... Those wishing to escape crowds this August need not avoid Europe. With minimum planning, you can view some of the most spectacular but still privately owned properties and collections in Great Britain and France. Exhibitions in Arles and Barcelona explore intercultural exchange with ...