The Magazine Antiques articles from May 2008

The Magazine Antiques archives from May 2008

Editors's letter.(Editorial)
May 1, 2008... In baseball joining a team on a winning streak can be daunting. That's also true in magazines as I've recently discovered. As the new editor of The Magazine ANTIQUES, I arrive after many winning seasons led by my predecessors Wendell Garrett,...

Mughal manuscripts.(Current and coming)
May 1, 2008... This spring and summer visitors to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D. C., will have the rare opportunity to view a selection of almost ninety Mughal imperial albums from the renowned collection of the Chester Beatty Library in...

Photography at Yale.(Current and coming)(Doris Bry)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... An exciting collection of photographs brought together by Doris Bry will be on view from the end of the month at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven. The exhibition was organized by a group of Yale students and includes works by...

Orientalism in New York City.(Current and coming)(Hajji Baba Club)
May 1, 2008... The Hajji Baba Club, the country's oldest and most celebrated organization of rug collectors, is celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary this spring with an exhibition at the New-York Historical Society of a large group of important rugs and...

Historic Deerfield.(Current and coming)
May 1, 2008... Honor'e Lannuier, Samuel McIntire, Duncan Phyfe, John and Thomas Seymour, and John Townsend are among the cabinetmakers whose furniture is featured in a new semipermanent exhibition entitled Into the Woods: Crafting Early American Furniture at...

Huntington Art Gallery.(Current and coming)
May 1, 2008... The fruits of a two-year, $20 million renovation and reinstallation program will be unveiled this month at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, the venerated institution established in 1919 by Henry E. and Arabella...

In the shelburned tradition.(Museum accessions)
May 1, 2008... Of all the important early collectors of Americana, Electra Havemeyer Webb was the one who most valued prosaic things, beginning with her childhood dolls right up to the steamboat she acquired in maturity. She was also one of the first to open...

Dutch Primitives.(Report from Europe)(dutch art exhibition)
May 1, 2008... The Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century--the so-called Golden Age--are well known, as are the names of their famous practitioners. Less familiar are the paintings and altarpieces of the earlier fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the...

Liverpool: European city of culture.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... To mark its designation as a European Capital of Culture this year, Liverpool is mounting several exhibitions, among them Art in the Age of Steam on view at the Walker Art Gallery until August 10. The show will then be seen at the Nelson-Atkins...

At the Tate Liverpool, Gustav Klimt is the subject of a major retrospective.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... At the Tate Liverpool, Gustav Klimt is the subject of a major retrospective on view from May 30 until August 31. Its main purpose is to explore the relationship between Klimt, as a leader of the Viennese Secession, and other artists, especially...

London fairs.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)(Calendar)
May 1, 2008... The theme this year for LAPADA: The Association of Art and Antiques Dealers London Fair is Objects of Desire. This annual fair takes place at Burlington Gardens, adjacent to the Royal Academy of Arts, from May 8 to 11. There will be lectures by...

Calendar.(art exhibitions)(Calendar)
May 1, 2008... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Passport to Europe: Six Centuries of Treasures from Museo de Arte de Ponce [Puerto Rico]"; to June 15. * "When Gold...

ANTIQUES.(T.S. Eliot)
May 1, 2008... [Tradition] cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour. It involves, in the first place, the historical sense, which we may call nearly indispensable to any one who would continue to be a poet beyond his...

A rare Kem Weber chair shows, the European side of American modernism.
May 1, 2008... Nothing is more exciting to a passionate connoisseur--even a seasoned expert who has helped redefine his chosen specialty--than discovering an elusive object he'd despaired of ever finding, let alone being able to own. But when that rare...

Servitude and splendor.(furniture industry)
May 1, 2008... By 1740 a colonial elite of well-to-do merchants and landowning planters had emerged in Virginia. With riches from tobacco production supplemented by investments in the profitable iron industry, they were fully prepared to engage artisans and...

The furniture of John Erhart Rose.("FIRST RATE & FASHIONABLE")(Biography)
May 1, 2008... Fanny Kemble (1809-1893), the renowned English, actress traveling in the American South in 1838, could well have been describing a piece of furniture by the cabinetmaker John Erhart Rose when she wrote in her diary: [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] ...

What modern was Mid-century masters of luxury.(Report)
May 1, 2008... Whatever is new, is bad," Wallace Nutting wrote in 1925. A minister-turned-entrepreneur who almost single-handedly popularized the colonial revival style via the sale of period furniture reproductions, Nutting (1861-1941) was one of the most...

Conversations in western New York: Charles Rohlfs and Gustav Stickley.(Report)
May 1, 2008... The weave of connections between Charles Rohlfs and Gustav Stickley is one of the most intriguing but least explored aspects of the arts and crafts movement in western New York State. The complex relationship between these designers has been...

Litchfield County cross-braced furniture.
May 1, 2008... Furniture made in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Litchfield County, in the northwestern corner of Connecticut, has long attracted collectors, dealers, and curators because of its variety and quality. For forty years, specialists...

The Butterfly Man of New Orleans: a rare group of Creole style armoires identified.(Report)
May 1, 2008... The armoire is the most significant form of colonial French furniture made in the Americas. (1) In Louisiana, armoires were crafted by immigrant cabinet-makers from the first quarter of the eighteenth century and were frequently listed in...

Modern classics for the landscape.(Design notes)(Company overview)
May 1, 2008... Furniture is a silhouette with an absolute need for ergonomic fit" says John Danzer, the founder of Munder-Skiles, a firm specializing in the production of both original designs and historically inspired garden furniture and related products....