Everything is Sculpture
by Thomas Connors
Isamu Noguchi saw art not as something separate from life, but embedded in the playgrounds, gardens, and spaces people move through every day.
Something Old, Something New, & Plenty of Blue
by Christine Hildebrand
The Magazine ANTIQUES attends Tanner Fletcher’s Vintage-Inspired Spring/Summer 2027 Bridal Runway Show.
Refugees in the Parlor
by Lisa Minardi
How one household in the Philadelphia countryside reveals the domestic upheaval, resilience, and material culture of war-torn Revolutionary America.
1826: Fashioning the American Myth
by Jonathan Prown
The Jubilee is justifiably remembered as a highly significant patriotic moment. But as the historian Len Travers notes in his history of the earliest Fourth of July celebrations, 1826 also needs to be understood as a time of increasing conflict.
Lines on the Land - Marking the nation’s 250th anniversary, the Huntington reimagines American history through the lenses of conflict and change.⬬
Mitch’s Musings: Everyday Gallé - A reflection on Émile Gallé’s lesser-known ceramics, a cherished Saint-Clément fruit basket, and the enduring beauty of objects meant to be used, not merely admired.⬬
Museums: On the Hunt - Through remarkable collections and exhibitions, the Center for American Decoys reveals the artistry, innovation, and cultural significance behind one of Illinois’s most distinctive and storied art forms. ⬬
Museums: Founding Home Fronts - The loan of a legendary Jefferson portrait to the Katonah Museum of Art anchors an exhibition exploring how founding families’ domestic lives shaped early American politics.⬬
Ideas: Living Through Art - How Jenness Cortez and Leonard Perlmutter are blending artistic expression and meditation through the new Jenness Cortez Teaching Museum. ⬬
Curious Objects: The Road to Destruction- How one man stole the divine. - Join podcast host Ben Miller in a highly engaging episode with investigative journalist Matthew Campbell discussing an Indiana Jones-esque heist that will have you on the edge of your seat all the way through. ⬬
Common Threads - America 250 at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art reframes
national identity through material culture and shared histories. ⬬
Museums: Little Boxes - Historic Bethlehem provides a rare peek inside a vault of antique dollhouses. ⬬
Museums: Wood and Water - A new exhibition places Long Island at the center of a global web of furniture-making, trade, and cultural exchange. ⬬
Ideas: Material Culture - A conversation on quilts and craft between Emily Adams Bode Aujla, founder and designer of Bode, and Emelie Gevalt of the American Folk Art Museum.⬬
Flea Bite: Found Photography - An unexpected flea market discovery uncovers a hidden world of friendship, self-expression, and the enduring emotional power of vernacular photography. ⬬
Liberty in the Heart of America - How an unprecedented assemblage of more than two hundred rare, original American founding documents, objects, and artworks came together in an exhibition guest curated by Ken Burns.⬬
LIVING WITH ANTIQUES
Habitat for Humanity
By Stacy C. Hollander with photography by Ellen McDermott and Bridget Sciales
