In this special bonus episode of Curious Objects, Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Abraham Thomas, ceramist Roxanne Jackson, and painter Andrew LaMar Hopkins join host Benjamin Miller onstage at the 2022 edition of the Winter Show to grapple with the legacy of Walter Benjamin’s famous 1935 essay “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”
ANTIQUES in the Beginning
Part II: The enterprising editor Alice Winchester
ANTIQUES in the Modern World
A personal journey through a watershed year, 1922
Living Large
What our magazine’s long-running and most popular feature series “Living with Antiques,” tells us about time, taste, and our mercurial rapport with the material realm
Venice: Through a Glass, and Darkly
An art exhibition in DC explores the desuetude and crystalline rebirth of Venice in the late nineteenth century
ANTIQUES in the Beginning
On the founding editor of ANTIQUES: Homer Eaton Keyes
Object lesson: Blue Plate Special
How spode willow pattern China became an enduring touchstone in decorative arts
Connecticut Idyll
How the American impressionist John Henry Twachtman made Fairfield County his own personal Giverny
Civilizing the Goths
An exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum examines the artful modern Gothic furniture of the 19th-century New York firm Kimbel and Cabus
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