The Magazine Antiques

The Magazine Antiques, the leading publication covering the fine and decorative arts since 1922. In addition to articles drawn upon both European and American material, the bi-monthly magazine has a regular feature focused on the intersection of culture and travel.

BECAUSE I LIKE IT

The Magazine Antiques

EDITOR'S LETTER

Water is Life

Botticelli heads to Minnesota

The photography of Bernd and Hilla Becher

True colors at the Met

Giacometti comes to Seattle

Upcoming Sales: The great Peter Tillou's estate and the mysterious art of Gertrude Abercrombie

The Art of the Game

ON BOOKS A Few Collectors by Pierre Le-Tan

The Virginian • TAYLOR THISTLETHWAITE BELIEVES THAT ANTIQUE AND VINTAGE DESIGNS GIVE COLLECTORS A SENSE OF PLACE, A SENSE OF HISTORY, AND A SENSE OF BELONGING

More on Federal Bostonians and Their London Jeweler, Stephen Twycross

The Origins of Edgefield Pottery • A curator at the Metropolitan Museum examines the history of the famed nineteenth-century South Carolina ceramics

CITIZEN BIDDLE • Philadelphia's Woodmere Art Museum celebrates a native son, the progressive artist George Biddle

Sculptor Sui Generis • Literally peerless, Auguste Rodin brought a supremely idiosyncratic sensibility to bear on the making of art

Selections from 100 years of Antiques covers • Early fall edition

English Lessons • A new exhibition explores the ways that Tudor England absorbed the artistic styles of the Continent and made them its own

Yesterday and Today: Art and Design (Part II) • An art historian continues his exploration of the affinities he finds between works of contemporary art and early modern decorative arts in the collection he shares with his husband

EVENTS • EXHIBITIONS SYMPOSIUMS LECTURES

A Portrait and a Personal History Revealed • Happy Birthday Bélizaire. It's been two hundred years since your birth in 1822 and a long time since anyone knew who you were. For a while you were painted out altogether. But we are thrilled that you have reappeared, and that Jeremy K. Simien and Louisiana historian Katy Shannon have recovered your story.