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Market: In With the Old
By: Jenna Curry More than 800 dealers from 22 countries will gather in Miami this month with one thing in common: antiques. Interestingly, that’s about as much as they have in common. The Original Miami Beach Antique Show, running Jan. 21–25 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, covers such a broad spectrum of objects that…
Market: California, Here We Come
By: Jenna Curry In December the art world looked with anticipation toward Miami’s multiple fairs; this month is Los Angeles’ turn to make its mark. The 15th annual Los Angeles Art Show, which takes place Jan. 20–24 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, is poised to attract more than 35,000 international visitors, and its organizers—KR…
Market: Winter Wonders
By: Jenna Curry The organizers of this year’s Winter Antiques Show have expanded their definition of the word “antiques.” The 75 exhibitors at the show, which runs Jan. 22–31 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, will not only bring an array of exceptional Americana but also Ancient Greek, Egyptian, Roman, pre-Columbian and Chinese…
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.
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