Magazine September/October 2020

Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Critical Thinking/Difficult IssuesA More Perfect Union Glenn Adamson Current and ComingGarden openings, slavery and women’s suffrage in Nantucket, and Girlhood in Washington, DC Farther AfieldOff the Piazza, Another World: Celebrating a Venetian institution, Caffè Florian at 300 James Gardner Object LessonThe Sculpture of Meta Vaux …

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About The Magazine ANTIQUES Since its inception in 1922, The Magazine ANTIQUES has been America’s premier publication on the fine and decorative arts, architecture, preservation, and interior design. Each bimonthly issue includes regular columns on current exhibitions, personalities in the field, notes on collecting, book reviews, and more. Meet the Team GREGORY CERIO Editor Gregory is the sixth editor since …

New collector: Spratling silver

Editorial Staff Furniture & Decorative Arts

The son of Dr. William P. Spratling, a celebrated neurologist and pioneer in treating epilepsy, William Spratling had a tragic childhood, losing his mother and a sister when he was ten, and his father five years later. He went on to Auburn University in Alabama, where he majored in architecture and was apparently teaching the subject there within two years …

Editor’s letter, July/August 2014

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Here is a curious turn of events: British folk art, although obviously many centuries old, is just this summer receiv­ing its first ever museum exhibition. Robert Young, who with his wife Josyane has carried aloft the standard of European folk art in their handsome London gallery for several years now, discusses Tate Britain’s exhibition in this issue with his customary …

On the money

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By Laura Beach Yorkshire calendar and almanac Calendar and almanac, probably York or Ripon, Yorkshire, England, c. 1425. Ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment, each page 6 by 4 1/8 inches. WHY:  Priced in the six figures by Les Enluminures of Paris, New York, and Chicago, this calendar and almanac of about 1425, with prognostications in Latin, illustrates the English …

The Lunder Collection is unveiled at the Colby College Museum of Art

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On July 13, the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, reopens, unveiling its nationally-acclaimed collection of more than 8,000 works of art. The addition of the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion, a sparkling glass structure designed by Frederick Fisher and Partners Architects, on the quintessential New England college campus, will display the impressive inaugural exhibition, The Lunder Collection: A Gift …