Last week we took a close look at Bélizaire the person, and his tortured life-path through antebellum Louisiana society. This week we examine the painting that is the reason anyone knows Bélizaire’s name in the first place, and follow the twists and turns by which it traveled from the studio of Jacques Amans in 1837 to the collection of Jeremy Simien today.
On books: September/October 2022
A memoir from the late French illustrator Pierre Le-Tan
November/December 2022
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2022 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Field NotesPhiladelphia Stories Elizabeth Pochoda Current and ComingAndrew LaMar Hopkins’s first museum retrospective, Morris Hirschfield re-examined at AFAM, and Edward Hopper’s New York at the Whitney In MemoriamSmiling with Scudder: Remembering R. Scudder Smith (1935–2022), publisher of the Newtown Bee and founder of Antiques and …
Editor’s Letter: September/October 2022
Editor-in-Chief Gregory Cerio welcomes us to the latest issue of ANTIQUES
On books: July/August 2022
On the acclaimed Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui
Magazine September/October 2022
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2022 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Field NotesWater is Life Elizabeth Pochoda Current and ComingMediterranean diaspora: Botticelli in Minneapolis, Giacometti in Seattle, and polychrome Greek sculpture in New York Auction NotesUpcoming Sales: The great Peter Tillou’s estate, and the mysterious art of Gertrude Abercrombie Object Lesson The Art of the GameBenjamin …
Editor’s letter: July/August 2022
Editor-in-Chief Gregory Cerio welcomes us to the latest issue of ANTIQUES
In Memoriam: R. Scudder Smith (1935-2022)
The antiques world remembers founder and publisher of Antiques and the Arts Weekly, R. Scudder Smith
Magazine July/August 2022
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! JULY/AUGUST 2022 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Field NotesThe Shaker Perplex Elizabeth Pochoda Current and ComingCeramist Katherine Choy at NOMA, posters from Paris’s Expositions Universellles at the Zimmerli, and Cartier jewelry in Dallas Farther Afield Harlequin Romance: In Dresden, a philosophy lesson found in Meissen porcelain figurines James Gardner On BooksEl Anatsui: …
Magazine May/June 2022
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! MAY/JUNE 2022 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Field NotesSpeaking Volumes at the Morgan Library Elizabeth Pochoda Current and Coming J.M.W Turner goes to Boston, an Escher Retrospective in Houston, and lost Roman murals remembered at the Getty Digital Doings Chatting from Winter in Spring, a Curious Cupid, and More Sammy Dalati Field …