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Market: Folk and Formal
By: Sheila Gibson Stoodley Christie’s and Sotheby’s will welcome the New Year in New York with Americana week, a series of sales that take place before and during the Winter Antiques Show. Sotheby’s has scheduled its important Americana auction in two sessions on Jan. 22 and Jan. 23, while Christie’s will hold its important American…
Market: Uncommon Clay
By: A&A Staff The New York Ceramics Fair, which runs Jan. 20–24 at the National Academy Museum, is the country’s only major event dedicated exclusively to antique and contemporary ceramics, and has the honor of being the first fair to open during Winter Antiques week. Thirty-eight dealers will exhibit, hailing from the U.S., the U.K.,…
Market: Everybody's All-American
By: John Dorfman Rounding out New York’s Americana week, the American Antiques Show will take place Jan. 21–24, overlapping with the Americana sales at Sotheby’s and Christie’s and with the first few days of the much larger Winter Antiques Show. Held at the Metropolitan Pavilion on West 18th Street in Chelsea, TAAS (as it is…
Exhibitions: Hues of History
The Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863–1944) belongs to that elite company of artists who, dissatisfied with the limitations of the media available to them, invented their own. Around the turn of the century Prokudin-Gorskii, who had a degree in chemistry, was experimenting with ways to bring color to the monochrome world of photography.
Essay: Reinhardt’s Heart
Some four decades after his death at the age of 53, Ad Reinhardt remains an enigmatic figure. His famous “black paintings,” which he produced toward the end of his life, are still some of the most mysterious creations ever made in the long, multifaceted history of modern art. As a teacher, Reinhardt propagated the idea of “art as art.” (“Art is art,” he wrote. “Everything else is everything else.”)
From the Editor: The Search for Authenticity
Sometimes hindsight isn’t 20–20, but that might not be a bad thing. In this issue, our columnist Jonathan Lopez writes about the academic painter James Tissot (see page 46), who is not much discussed nowadays. No matter. As Lopez shows, some of Tissot’s works, at least, provide an excellent case study of the ways in which, try as we might, we cannot recreate the past.
Books: Winter’s Tales
Books are among the most inexhaustible of presents; long after the New Year they remain to give pleasure till next December and beyond. That is especially true of art books, and Art & Antiques’ editors have picked some choice volumes to delight and inform the collector and curious reader.
Plugged In
When Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb in 1879, he had no clue that one day it would become a medium for art. Indeed, he probably couldn’t have conceived of it; when listing 10 ways his new phonograph would improve the world, he ranked “reproduction of music” fourth, behind dictation, audiobooks and teaching elocution.
Lighting Out for the Territory
If you wander around shops in a city like New York, looking at old maps for their beauty alone in the company of dealers like Harry Newman at The Old Print Shop; or Paul Cohen and Henry Tagliaferro at Arkway; or Graham Arader of Arader Galleries; or Richard Lan, Robert Augustyn and James Roy at Martayan Lan, you could be forgiven for forgetting something important.
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