A mysterious Klimt portrait goes up for auction at im Kinsky.
Endnotes: An Overdue Roll Call
A new partnership uncovers historical documents of Black and Native American Revolutionary soldiers.
Endnotes: Pyramid Schemes
How educator and designer Matthew Bird utilized social media to lecture on Egyptian Revival design.
Endnotes: Making Choices
Brooke Wyatt explains how the exhibition, Material Witness: Folk and Self-Taught Artists at Work, explores a common question in art.
Endnotes: Home is Where the Heart Is
Eleanor H. Gustafson interviews curator and director William L. Coleman on the inaugural exhibition Andrew Wyeth: Home Places.
A new look for the Davis at Wellesley
New England is chockablock with exceptional academic art museums, from the Yale University Art Gallery to those at Colby and Bowdoin Colleges in Maine. A lesser-known gem that has recently taken on new sparkle is the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Rafael Moneo in 1993, where a nearly three-year reinstallation of the collection has just been completed.
End notes: The Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection at Drexel University
Little known except to connoisseurs—Amy Finkel calls it “one of Philadelphia’s hidden treasures”—the Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection at Drexel University is about to come into the limelight. We spoke to Clare Sauro, its curator and the organizer of its first major exhibition, Immortal Beauty: Highlights from the Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection, which will be …
End notes: Sylvia L. Yount takes charge of the Met’s American Wing
Based as we are in New York, the staff of The Magazine ANTIQUES has a fond if not proprietary tendency to look upon the Metropolitan Museum of Art, especially its American Wing, as our “local” museum. So when we heard the news that the redoubtable Morrison H. Heckscher was retiring after forty-eight years, thirteen of them as head of the …
Folk art rising
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, July/August 2012 | Although the American Folk Art Museum received a great deal of press attention upon the closing of its award-winning building on Fifty-Third Street last year, the really big story was to be found in its immediate resurgence. Beginning with the hugely successful red and white quilt show at the Park Avenue Armory and …
Past, Present, and Future at the Huntington
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, May/June 2012 | Its name, the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, pretty well covers what this singular institution in San Marino, California, is all about. But it hardly begins to tell the story. The creation of Henry E. Huntington, a man with forward-looking business sense and retrospective tastes in art and literature, the Huntington today is …
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