The Magazine Antiques articles from December 2002

The Magazine Antiques archives from December 2002

New Tiffany galleries. (Current and Coming).
December 1, 2002... It is always a happy occasion when a museum combines resources, scholarship, and sound aesthetic judgment to create a new way of looking at objects in its permanent collections. A prime example is the thoughtful and evocative installation of...

Japanese theater. (Current and Coming).
December 1, 2002... One of the most revered cultural traditions in Japan is the theater, or more specifically Noh and Kyogen. Noh originated in the fourteenth century as a spectacle that incorporates dance, music, drama, and literature. It is highly esteemed for...

A facelift in Portland. (Current and Coming).
December 1, 2002... The Portland Museum of Art in Maine has recently completed a large renovation project that unites its three architecturally diverse buildings: the McLellan House (1800-1801), the L. D. M. Sweat Memorial Galleries (1911), and the Charles Shipman...

Texas pottery. (Current and Coming).
December 1, 2002... Pottery making took root in the Deep South in the Edgefield District--today Edgefield, Aiken, and Greenwood Counties in South Carolina along the Georgia border. The area had rich clay deposits and drew potters during the early years of the...

Museum accessions.
December 1, 2002... The designer brothers Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene grew up in Saint Louis, and the British-born ceramist Frederick Hurten Rhead worked in nearby University City, Missouri (now part of Saint Louis), between 1909 and 1911. Thus,...

Byron. (Report from Europe).
December 1, 2002... George Gordon, sixth baron Byron, better known as Lord Byron, managed to squeeze a remarkable amount into his relatively short life. By the time he died of a fever at the age of thirty-six, while fighting for the independence of Greece from...

The Stroganoffs in Amsterdam. (Report from Europe).
December 1, 2002... In common with many countries, there was a handful of extremely wealthy families in Russia before the Revolution who had enormous influence in many spheres. One such family was the Stroganoffs, whose fortune came from trading in salt and fur....

Bohemian baroque. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... From 1526 until 1918, the Habsburgs dominated Bohemia. Briefly in 1618, a rebellion took place that deposed the Habsburg Catholic emperor Ferdinand II. The infamous Defenestration of Prague, when two senior officials of the court were thrown...

Underdrawings in Renaissance paintings. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... The National Gallery in London produced its first technical publication in 1940, and in it the museum's first scientific adviser began the tradition, which has continued ever since, of publishing the results of the technical examination of...

An amiable history of Christmas. (Books About Antiques).
December 1, 2002... The author of this handsomely designed book is the retired chairman of the advertising firm Ogilvy and Mather (now Ogilvy One) and his brother is the retired editor-in-chief of Newsweek. Both these modern-day titans love Christmas and still...

Calendar.
December 1, 2002... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Alabama BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "Matieres de Reves: Stuff of Dreams: Highlights from the Paris Musee des Arts decoratifs"; to January 5,...

Antiques.
December 1, 2002... The generality of Christmas-keepers observe that festival after such a manner as is highly dishonourable to the name of Christ. How few are there comparatively that spend those holidays (as they are called) after an holy manner But they are...

Gothamtide: Christmas words and images in nineteenth-century New York.
December 1, 2002... New Yorkers have long promoted the Christmas season, or Gothamtide as I call it, (1) which begins in early December and lasts until the twelfth day after Christmas, or January 6. While Christmas day was not declared a national holiday by the...

The Index of American Design: picturing a national identity.
December 1, 2002... The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., will mark the sixtieth anniversary of its acquisition of the Index of American Design with the exhibition Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design, which...

Napoleon III: the other Napoleon and his Empire.(Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte)
December 1, 2002... Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (Pl. I) was proclaimed Napoleon III, emperor of the French, on December 2, 1852. Thirty-seven years after the Battle of Waterloo and thirty-one years after the death of Napoleon I (r. 1804-1815) in exile on the...

German toys in antebellum America.
December 1, 2002... Before American toymaking industries were firmly established in the second half of the nineteenth century, commercially made children's toys (1) were imported from England, France, and Germany, with Germany the acknowledged leader. (2) The...

Travel guide.(Buyers Guide)
December 1, 2002... CALIFORNIA Los Angeles BPA COLLECTABLES, INC. AKA LYNNE BEAVERS, 1315 West Pico Blvd., 90015. 7000 sq. ft. warehouse full of architectural artifacts and antiques from Asia, Africa and India. Across the street from the LA Convention...

Calendar of shows.
December 1, 2002... December 2002 Calendar of Shows December 28-30. Naples, FL. NAPLES WINTER ANTIQUE SHOW Ritz-Carlton, Naples, FL. Features dealers of renown with emphasis on fine antique furniture & decorative accessories, fine arts and paintings, the rare...

Covering the windows. (Design Notes).
December 1, 2002... In an instructive article published in this magazine in August 1985, Elisabeth Donaghy Garrett wrote: "Although late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century paintings illustrate the extensive use of shutters and blinds, it is often difficult to...