The Magazine Antiques articles from January 2007

The Magazine Antiques archives from January 2007

January in New York City.(exhibitions)
January 1, 2007... Each year in January the antiques world flocks to Manhattan. Special exhibitions and sales are mounted throughout the city, offering something for everyone. The centerpiece, of course, is the annual Winter Antiques Show, which takes place at...

Museum accessions.(stamp act)
January 1, 2007... The Stamp Act passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765, was the first direct tax levied on the American colonists by Great Britain. It applied to all printed materials, from licenses and documents to pamphlets and playing cards, and...

Drawing attention in London.(Slade School of Fine Art)
January 1, 2007... The Slade School of Fine Art, now part of University College London, was founded in 1871 with the aim of providing progressive art training based on intensive study from the life model. Each year prizes were awarded to Slade students in the...

Silver, silver.(Paul de Lamerie's exhibition)
January 1, 2007... The work of the great Huguenot silversmith Paul de Lamerie is found mainly in museums. An exception is the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cahn, which contains many important objects by Lamerie. The Cahns' holdings form the basis for a...

Istanbul in Amsterdam.(historic exhibition)
January 1, 2007... Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire from AD 330 until the fifteenth century. Some of the early important buildings from that period still survive, including Hagia Sophia, a Byzantine church built on the site of an earlier...

Books about antiques.
January 1, 2007... This deeply informative and lavishly illustrated book offers an unusual breadth of perspective on the history of prints and related media associated with New Orleans and Louisiana. Drawing on an impressive array of primary materials and...

Queries.(art exhibitions)
January 1, 2007... THE BOSTON BRAHMIN portrait painter Margaret Fitzhugh Browne (1884-1972) is the subject of a forthcoming exhibition and catalogue. Browne's portraits of prominent twentieth-century people ranged from American President Theodore Roosevelt and...

Calendar.
January 1, 2007... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Fierce Reality: Italian Masters from 17th Century Naples"; to March 4. California [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Antiques.(southern culture)
January 1, 2007... Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all. William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! 1936 Tell about the South," says Quentin Compson's roommate at Harvard, a Canadian...

The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts: an introduction.
January 1, 2007... The articles included in this issue of The Magazine ANTIQUES present the collections of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, from a variety of perspectives. Some look at cultural influences,...

Many hands, many voices: southern furniture at MESDA.(Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts)
January 1, 2007... In 1607, when Captain John Smith (1580-1631) first set foot on Virginia's shores, he was struck by the abundant natural resources of the new continent. Describing the forests to potential colonists in Europe, Smith noted that "all the Country...

Earth transformed: Early Southern pottery at MESDA and Old Salem.(Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts)
January 1, 2007... The history of southern pottery comes from the ground. It is manifest not only in the rich clays of the region, but also in unearthed broken sherds of long-buried earthenware and stoneware vessels. In many respects, the South has taken the lead...

Architecture as artifact: period rooms at MESDA.(Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts)
January 1, 2007... Stepping from the well-lit museum gallery space through a low doorway into a small room, everything seems dark, but as one's eyes adjust to the dimmed light, a dark wood floor, a huge brick fireplace, an enclosed corner stair, a spectacular...

Transatlantic currents: paintings at MESDA.
January 1, 2007... For decades it was believed that there was little of significance produced in the early South and that whatever was owned there was surely purchased from abroad. This attitude contains some truth in that, to a greater degree than elsewhere in...

"A laudable example of industry": North Carolina Moravian furniture.
January 1, 2007... The sight of this little settlement of Moravians is highly curious and interesting. Between 200 and 300 persons of this sect here assembled live in brotherly love and set a laudable example of industry, unfortunately too little observed and...

Of the latest style: silver at MESDA.(Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts)
January 1, 2007... The logo of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts is based on a silver salver made by Alexander Petrie of Charleston (Figs. 4, 4a). The salver's shaped piecrust edge not only provides an appealing silhouette for a logo but it also evokes...

Tangible displays of refinements: southern needlework at MESDA.(Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts)
January 1, 2007... Southern domestic needlework of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has often been viewed as a traditional and, perhaps, parochial product of female hands. Family anecdotes and early scholarship have reinforced the perception of needlework...

Useful devices: the prints and maps at MESDA.(Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts)
January 1, 2007... While MESDA's founder Frank L. Horton acknowledged that prints and maps were used to adorn the walls of southern houses, he also recognized that the majority were not produced in the colonial South but rather were published in England and...

Calendar of shows.
January 1, 2007... January 5-7. MIAMI NATIONAL ANTIQUES SHOW. One of the nation's largest, high quality antiques shows, with 350 exhibitors from the U.S., Canada, South America, and Europe. The show attracts huge numbers of serious foreign buyers. Most...

Traditional textiles.(ancient textiles)
January 1, 2007... Handwoven textiles can range from the homely to the highly sophisticated, but they add a human touch in our increasingly electronic homes. In the 1970s Sam Kasten set up shop in an evocative nineteenth-century stone building in Stockbridge,...