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Renovation and refinement
When the Metropolitan Museum of Art's renovated Greek and Roman galleries were inaugurated two years ago, critics acclaimed that majestic design by...
Magazine Antiques, 05/01/09 by Martin Filler · More from publication -
Modern: the fate of the landmark Miller House in Columbus, Indiana, a legendary collaboration of three mid-century American masters—Eero Saarinen, Alexander Girard, and Dan Kiley—hangs in the balance as the Indianpolis Museum of Art campaigns to
The cleverest exponents of modern architecture and design have furthered their cause by playing to a deep-seated human obsession: curiosity about...
Magazine Antiques, 04/01/09 by Martin Filler · More from publication -
Red, white, and Tiffany blue
The ambitious transformation of the White House by Jacqueline Kennedy (1929-1994), which began in 1961--from a hotel-like assemblage of department...
Magazine Antiques, 03/01/09 by Martin Filler · More from publication -
His own private Wolfsonian: the collector Mitchell Wolfson Jr. has given a pair of New York pieds-a-terre the aura of wonder and surprise that distinguish his decorative arts museums in Miami and Genoa
One supreme irony in the history of museums in the United States is that our grand national collection, the Smithsonian Institution, was endowed by...
Magazine Antiques, 02/01/09 by Martin Filler · More from publication -
Window, mirror, and prism
The expansionist mania that has gripped art institutions worldwide is paralleled by a confounding phenomenon: as more museums are built, the more...
Magazine Antiques, 01/01/09 by Martin Filler · More from publication -
Olbrich overlooked: the fallen star of fin-de-siecle modernism, Austrian architect virtuoso Joseph. Maria extravagantly gifteded but tragically short-lived. A century after his death, he still awaits his proper place in history
As 2008 draws to its close, this year's most glaring omission on the international decorative arts scene has been any suitable centennial...
Magazine Antiques, 12/01/08 by Martin Filler · More from publication -
Barbara Novak and the resurrection of nineteenth-century American painting
Before Barbara Novak helped open the world's eyes to the glories of our country's nineteenth-century painting, the luminists were dismissed as...
Magazine Antiques, 11/01/08 by Martin Filler · More from publication -
The global eye of Sherman Lee
Esteemed for his unmatched expertise in Asian painting and sculpture, Sherman E. Lee made the Cleveland Museum of Art into a world class collection...
Magazine Antiques, 10/01/08 by Martin Filler · More from publication -
The real Menil: on the one hundredth anniversary of her birth, Dominique de Menil's Houston house testifies to the sure instincts of a consummate collector
It would be hard to refute the art world consensus that the most admired collector of the second half of the twentieth century was Dominique de...
Magazine Antiques, 09/01/08 by Martin Filler · More from publication -
Miller's tale: the Indianapolis Museum of Art gets a modern design collection
F. Scott Fitzgerald's oft-quoted (and uncharacteristically inaccurate) observation that there are no second acts in American life is given the lie...
Magazine Antiques, 08/01/08 by Martin Filler · More from publication
