The Magazine Antiques

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.

The Magazine Antiques

EDITOR'S LETTER

A Matter of Respect

Edvard Munch at the Clark

Peter Rabbit and Co. in Atlanta

Modernist art of the American South

Southern photography at the High

In Chicago, the ceramic art of Ruth Duckworth

Keeping Time with the Willards • KEYNOTES ON A CLASSIC NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN CLOCK

Meeting of the Minds • A BOOK SERIES FROM THE FRICK COLLECTION PAIRS SCHOLARLY ANALYSIS WITH ARTISTIC INTERPRETATION

Art, affinities, and the designs of David Webb • EXCERPTS FROM A NEW BOOK ON THE ESTEEMED NEW YORK JEWELER AND HIS INSPIRATIONS

Tradition with a Twist • The Ford House in suburban Detroit features warm, Old World appointments, a rich collection of elegant antiques, and a surprise dash of sleek modern design

Fleeting Impressions • A current exhibition explores the art and milieu of the elusive American landscape painter Guy Wiggins

Leash Common Denominator • Some notes on art, design, and historical artifacts related to dogs

Eye of the Beholder • In early eighteenth-century Italy, Giacomo Ceruti's sensitive portraits of the down-and-out turned artistic orthodoxy on its head

From Gunpowder to Greenery • How the grounds of the du Pont family's first estate—now the home of the Hagley Museum and Library—were transformed from a munitions mill to a romantic Italianate garden

Couture for Portraiture • A forthcoming exhibition examines the significance of fashion in the art of John Singer Sargent

EVENTS • EXHIBITIONS SYMPOSIUMS LECTURES

Pyramid Schemes • Tow Cleopatra's Needle from Alexandria to London with thread? Look for real estate in a Sphinx-shaped building? Dream about barging down the Nile in your Maidenform bra? These are just a tiny hint at the ways ancient Egypt has sparked the imaginations of European and American consumers from as early as the eighteenth century. For an entertaining and enlightening look at the phenomenon, visit the thirteen hundred posts on Matthew Bird's (@pasigraphy) Egyptian Revival Instagram lecture. We asked Bird, a multi-faceted designer and curator, and recently retired professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, to tell us more.