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

Rolling Along

The rise of impressionism in Dallas

The art of the Harlem Renaissance in a global context

Surprising silver from Norway in Houston

Visions of Japan in Brooklyn

On the waterfront with Matisse

Hollywood's golden age in Washington, DC

Secret portraits at the Met

Feathered friends in Charleston

A Stitch from Time Past • ON COLLECTING ANTIQUE SEWING BOXES

Suddenly Chic: Costume Jewelry • A FORTHCOMING EXHIBITION CASTS A GLOWING LIGHT ON EMBLEMS OF LOWER-COST GLAMOUR

“Life Is Better with Antiques” • A new book takes us into the eccentrically elegant home of a New Orleans antiques dealer and interior decorator

The Wing at 100 • As the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art approaches the centennial anniversary of its founding, we spoke with its curator in charge, Sylvia Yount, about the evolution of the collection and plans for growth and change

Old Wine, New Bottle • In Philadelphia, a collection of historical art and design finds a happy home in a modernist tower, thanks to the ministrations of interior designer Thomas Jayne

Books That Illustrate Nature with Nature Itself • On exsiccatae, xylotheks, lepidochromes, and other rare books and collections that incorporate actual biological and botanical specimens

Inside Job • An exhibition explores the ways in which artistic depictions of interior scenes and the applied and decorative arts reflected social and economic currents in early twentieth-century America

OHIO STATELY • The Hay-McKinney Mansion in Cleveland offers a glimpse of midwestern opulence at the turn of the twentieth century

EVENTS • EXHIBITIONS SYMPOSIUMS LECTURES

Will the Real Miss Liester Please Stand Up? • In a truly remarkable rediscovery, one of the last portraits painted by Gustav Klimt has emerged after nearly a century. While still at work on the canvas, Klimt suffered a stroke and died in early 1918. The painting was in his studio at the time and was presumably subsequently returned to the family who commissioned it. That's where the plot thickens, as will be discussed below. But Portrait of Fraulein Leiser itself, in all its glorious color, is the real story, for it has been known only in a simple black-and-white photograph since about 1925. It will be auctioned in Vienna on April 24 by the Austrian house im Kinsky, which plans to have it displayed internationally before then, including in Switzerland, Germany, Britain, and Hong Kong, and has produced an in-depth catalogue devoted to it, from which our information is taken.