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

Serious Fun

Manet/Degas at the Met

An Abraham Ángel revival in Dallas

Hard times, powerful art at the Met

Marie Laurencin at the Barnes

In Detroit: Art between the Wars in Paris

Lights from the Dark Ages: The Lüsterweibchen • ALL ABOUT THE WORLD'S WEIRDEST CHANDELIERS

Joan Kaplan Davidson, 1927–2023 • HER GRANDSON REMEMBERS THE PHILANTHROPIST, HISTORIC PRESERVATIONIST, AND MATERFAMILIAS

Holiday Jewely Book Selections • When it comes to jewelry books for the holidays, there are always many that vie for attention. This year, we skimmed from the top to focus on two legacy houses of French jewelry; a New York maker of exquisite bijoux and objets d'art; and the memoirs of a longtime dealer and scholar on the international jewelry scene.

HIDDEN NAMES AND COMPLEX FATES • A new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum examines the depictions of Black people in the art of the Early American North

THE PRE-RAPHAELITE AND THE POTTER • A current exhibition explores the life and work of an eminent late Victorian artistic couple, Evelyn and William De Morgan

Hand of an Angel; Eye of a Sage • The life and art of Charles White, who battled discrimination and illness to achieve a transcendent vision, is explored in a current traveling exhibition

Changing Times, Changing Art • A current exhibition examines American realist art as a mirror on sweeping societal transformations in the early twentieth century

“LIKE A MOTH TO THE FLAME”

The Shock of the Hue • How the surprising, saturated colors in the turn-of-the- century paintings Matisse and others created in the South of France changed the face of Western art

EXHIBITIONS SYMPOSIUMS LECTURES

Of Glass and Grape Nuts • Legendary. No other word so aptly applies to collector and hostess, breakfast-cereal heiress, businesswoman, and philanthropist Marjorie Merriweather Post. This magazine has presented the riches at Hillwood, her Washington, DC, home at least twice over the past seventy years, first in 1962 and then with a full special issue in March 2003. More recently, late last year Rizzoli published The Houses and Collections of Marjorie Merriweather Post, explor- ing the fine and decorative arts Post collected and lived with over the years, not only at Hillwood, but also at her many other residences and yachts. The book is a fascinating read and a treasury of exquisite porcelains and portraiture, furniture and Fabergé, silver and gold, jewelry and fashion. To coincide with its publication, Wilfried Zeisler, Hillwood's chief curator and the book's lead author, organized an exhibition that showcases a lesser-known aspect of Post's collecting: glass.