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(Issue Story)If in Doubt, Don’t Throw It Out: A Paean to Paper, Specifically Diaries and Journals
It’s a little like admitting to being a heretic, but while working for 17 years as a reporter for M.A.D., my favorite items to write about weren’t pieces of furniture. They were pieces of paper. I loved to write about things like rare books and ephemera. Chests of drawers, not ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rhinebeck Show to Return
Barn Star Productions’ Spring Antiques at Rhinebeck Show is returning. The show will take place Memorial Day Weekend, May 24 and 25, at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, New York, and will feature 125 indoor exhibitors. Last year, the Fall Antiques at Rhinebeck Show, scheduled for Columbus Day weekend, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)2024 Ceramics in America
A Book Review
It is hard to believe that Ceramics in America has been around since 2001 and that the current edition is the 23rd volume. (There was an interruption in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.)
Twelve of the 14 articles of varying length in the 2024 volume answer questions posed by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Two New Exhibitors for NHADA Annual Show
For 68 years, the annual show produced by the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA) has upheld the tradition of bringing fine quality antiques to New England. Two new exhibitors will join the show this year bringing the total to 59 exhibitors. The new exhibitors are Philip Mead of Mead ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Heather Karlie Vieira
Earning her chops as an antiques dealer took spunk, luck, and cocktail waitress experience. After 20-plus years, Heather Karlie Vieira, who with her two teenage daughters now calls Georgia home, has her foot in many doors.
Leaving her hometown of Philadelphia in 2002 for New York City to become an antiques ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Getting More by Asking for Less
When asked by someone outside of the art and decorative arts world what museums to see in New York City, I always tell them about the American Folk Art Museum. “It’s fantastic, and it’s free,” is my stock recommendation.
“Access, Scale & Market Share,” a recent report by Remuseum, a think ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, May 2025
Stanley Whitney (b. 1946), untitled, 2020, gouache on paper. The Medford and Loraine Johnston collection, promised gift to the High Museum of Art. © Stanley Whitney. Photo courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
—Through May 25 —Atlanta, Georgia
Thinking Eye, Seeing Mind: The Medford and Loraine Johnston Collection at the High Museum ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Catalog of a Once-in-a-Lifetime Assemblage
A Book Review
Valley Culture: Constructing Identity Along the Great Wagon Road is the catalog for the special exhibition that celebrates the fifth anniversary of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies at Historic Trappe in Trappe, Pennsylvania. This gathering of painted boxes, cupboards, chests, and fraktur that enriched the daily lives ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)American Antiquarian Society Receives Paine Collection
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), Worcester, Massachusetts, has received a gift of more than 18,000 pieces of 18th- and 19th-century ephemera. The collection, assembled over several decades by Stephen Davies Paine (1932-1997) and given to AAS in his memory, is one of the largest and most pristine of its kind.
The ... (Read More)
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