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The Magazine Antiques back issues
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Editor's letter.
April 1, 2009... We have a new Web site here at The Magazine ANTIQUES and I am pleased to say that it is, in its webby way, almost as handsome as the print version. I have high hopes for themagazineantiques.com as the beginning of a genuine community for everyone in the field. Do I dare to dream that this new...
Sculpture or decorative art?(CURRENT and coming)(Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts)
April 1, 2009... Although they share common ground, sculpture and decorative arts are rarely considered together. Taking Shap: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts, a new exhibition at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, challenges our tendency to categorize the fields--sculpture as fine art created for...
Rembrandt Peale.(CURRENT and coming)(Rembrandt Peale's Portrait of John Meer: A New Addition to the American Art Collection)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... A portrait painted by Rembrandt Peale about 1795 is the focus of a small exhibition that recently opened at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. The sitter is the Englishman John Meer, a silversmith and friend of the Peale family who arrived in Philadelphia with his wife and ten children in...
Amish quilts.(CURRENT and coming)(Constructed Color: Amish Quilts)
April 1, 2009... When the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was founded in 1997, an important aspect of its mission was to promote scholarship by exhibiting its vast collection at institutions throughout the world. This month a group of the center's Amish quilts...
Philadelphia Antiques Show.(CURRENT and coming)(Pennsylvania)
April 1, 2009... More than thirty years ago, in 1976 and 1977, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Brooklyn Museum mounted a landmark retrospective exhibition of the works of Gustave Cailiebotte that introduced the French impressionist painter to a broad American audience. The Brooklyn Museum has just...