The Magazine Antiques articles from January 2008

The Magazine Antiques archives from January 2008

Americana week in New York City.(Current and coming)(Calendar)
January 1, 2008... An incredibly valuable resource for scholars of Shaker history and the many fans of the sect's furniture and other products is the Shaker Museum and Library in Old Chatham, New York, which is home to one of the most important, largest, and...

Transcendental landscapes.(Current and coming)
January 1, 2008... Landscape painters working in the United States around the mid-nineteenth century faced a serious dilemma: how to express their personal impressions of nature without deviating too much from what they saw before them. The general feeling at the...

Improvements at the Met.(Current and coming)(Metropolitan Museum of Art)
January 1, 2008... The intriguing exhibition Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century, organized collaboratively by the Costume Institute and the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in...

Museum accessions.
January 1, 2008... The District of Columbia, created in 1790 as the capital of the United States, encompassed Georgetown, Maryland, at the north and Alexandria, Virginia, at the south surrounding the new city of Washington. Progress in building the area was slow,...

From Russia.(Report from Europe)
January 1, 2008... At the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries, the monied classes of Russia looked west for many of their cultural pursuits. They spoke French even amongst themselves and spent time in Paris, where they indulged their...

Nineteenth-century Spanish painting.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Late last year an addition to the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid was completed; its main feature is a suite of galleries for temporary exhibitions. The first show to be mounted there draws attention to the very large collection of...

Silver furniture.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... When Louis XIV made Versailles his main residence in 1669, he intended it to be the most lavish palace in Europe. To this end, he greatly extended the building and implemented a major plan for the interiors and the gardens. Among his many...

The art of light.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... The National Gallery in London has mounted one of its occasional small exhibitions that shed light on a very particular aspect of Western art. This time, light is precisely the subject of the show, which is called Art of Light: German...

Brussels fair.(Report from Europe)(Belgium)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Some 130 European exhibitors are participating in the fifty-third Antiques and Fine Arts Fair of Belgium, being held at the Thurn und Taxis site in Brussels from January 18 to 27. The loan exhibition consists of an extraordinary pair of...

At the cinema in the 1700s.(Books about antiques)(Carmontelle's Landscape Transparencies: Cinema of the Englightenment)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Every evening in Paris in the eighteenth century what were known as showmen took to the streets hawking their wares. The magic lantern was all the rage, and if the showman could offer up something new to the aristocrat he might be called inside...

Calendar.(Calendar)
January 1, 2008... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Alabama BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "Artes Etrvriae Renascvntvr, Sir William Hamilton, Josiah Wedgwood, and the Dream of Etruria"; to January 13....

Antiques.
January 1, 2008... I confess that in America I saw more than America; I sought there the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or to hope from its progress....

New light on Frederic Church's "late" work.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... The exhibition Frederic Edwin Church: Romantic Landscapes and Seascapes, opening at Adelson Galleries in New York City on January 18, agreeably includes three important late works by the artist: The Aegean Sea of 1878 (Fig. 3); Springtime in...

Paul T. Frankl's Skyscraper furniture.
January 1, 2008... Paul T. Frankl's Skyscraper furniture enjoyed only a brief period of popularity, from 1926 through early 1930. But his remarkable designs have come to symbolize the energy and vitality of the Jazz Age in the United States. With their...

Living with antiques: a lakeside retreat.
January 1, 2008... Picture an 1836 Greek revival farmhouse, thoughtfully sited on a sloping meadow embraced by expansive views of mountains and a lake. It is an ever-changing artful scene, for the natural forces of sun and cloud perpetually sculpt, shape, and...

Tea, pith, and monkey business.
January 1, 2008... It affords a luxury to the rich, and a blessing to the poor; and the moral effect of the beverage, as preventing recourse to stronger stimulants, is indubitable.... The deprivation of the article of tea would be of no slight importance." So...

The Shaker aesthetic reconsidered.
January 1, 2008... To date, much that has been said or written about the Shakers and their material culture errs in one of two ways. On one hand, classic Shaker furniture is typically mischaracterized as "simple." (1) In fact, it is not simplicity that epitomizes...

Cornelius Kierstede, colonial silversmith.(Biography)
January 1, 2008... Silver played an extremely significant role in colonial American life. In a period when banks did not exist, silver allowed families to save their money in a manner that was easily identifiable, useful, and attractive. These characteristics...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
January 1, 2008... January 16-20. New York, NY. NEW YORK CERAMICS FAIR. 35 International dealers exhibiting and offering all periods of exceptional ceramics, glass and enamels. Antique to contemporary Admission: Tuesday preview admission $75 5pm-9pm,...

Fabrics inspired by Doris Duke's Rough Point.(Design notes)
January 1, 2008... In the late nineteenth century Newport laid claim as the preferred summer destination for Gilded Age millionaires, among them Frederick William Vanderbilt who was the first of four grandsons of the New York shipping and railroad magnate...