Antiques (magazine)
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| Editor | Mitchell Owens |
|---|---|
| Categories | Arts |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| Founded | 1921 (first issue January 1922) |
| Company | Magazine Antiques Media LLC |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | New York City |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
The Magazine Antiques is a bimonthly arts publication that focuses on architecture, interior design, and fine and decorative arts. Regular monthly columns include news on current exhibitions and art-world events, notes on collecting, and book reviews.
History[edit]
Antiques was founded in 1921 by Homer Eaton Keyes, a noted collector of American glass and a former business manager of Dartmouth College, with its first issue appearing in January 1922.[1][2][1] In the inaugural issue, Keyes wrote, "The magazine hopes to be authoritative... It hopes to avoid twaddle... The effort will be, in any one discussion, to secure thoroughness within a limited area of research."
"After seeing the initial copy the success of the magazine is not to be doubted," The Springfield Union stated in its 25 December 1921 issue (page 31). "It is most artistically set up and the lover of the antique will long to crawl into some chimneycorner and read it from cover to cover... It is the handiwork of a true lover of the antique.... Listed are some of the good things that the editors promise are coming: Arms, armor, books, bronzes, china, clocks, coins, draperies, etchings, fabrics, furniture, glassware, hardware, jewelry, laces, lamps, medals, paintings, pottery, porcelain, pewter, rugs, samplers, silverware, stamps, tapestries [and] wall coverings."
By 1950, The Magazine Antiques was heralded in the Los Angeles Times (10 September 1950, page 132) in an article written by Grace and Gregor Norman-Wilcox: "Many other magazines for collectors, serving different sorts of audiences, have come and gone, but Antiques in America, like the Connoisseur in England, has achieved a venerable, even a pontifical estate—not that of a magazine, but of an institution." That same year, the magazine published, under the aegis of editor Alice Winchester, The Antiques Book (A.A. Wyn, Inc.), a collection of articles that had appeared in the magazine between 1922 and 1949.
The head-of-title note "The Magazine" first appeared in January 1928, but was not used between August 1952 and February 1971.
The Magazine Antiques underwent a complete redesign in 2009.
Statistics[edit]
The publication claims a print readership of 20,000, with 16,000 newsletter subscribers, and 7,800 monthly website uniques.[3]
It was previously published by Brant Publications, a company founded in 1984 by Peter M. Brant,[1] a newsprint magnate and art collector. In 2016 The Magazine Antiques, along with ARTnews, Art in America and Modern Magazine, became acquired by Art Media Holdings.
Editors in Chief[edit]
- Homer Eaton Keyes (1922-1939)[4]
- Alice Winchester (1939-1972), a pioneer historian of American folk art[2]
- Wendell Garrett (1972-1990), later an appraiser on Antiques Roadshow[3] He remained editor at large until his death in 2012.[3]
- Allison Eckhardt Ledes (1990-2008)[5]
- Elizabeth Pochoda (2008-2016), a literary scholar and journalist who had been executive editor of House & Garden[6]
- Gregory Cerio (2016-2024)[7], a former senior features editor of House & Garden and the founding editor of Modern Magazine
- Mitchell Owens (2024-present)[8], who had been American Editor of The World of Interiors, Decorative Arts Editor of Architectural Digest, and a reporter for The New York Times
Footnotes[edit]
- ^ a b "ARTnews S.A. and Brant Publications, Inc. Announce Merger". ARTnews. July 29, 2015. Archived from the original on February 22, 2016. Retrieved January 16, 2016.
- ^ Gerard C. Wertkin (August 2, 2004). Encyclopedia of American Folk Art. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-95614-1.
- ^ a b "'Roadshow' personality dead at 83". Los Angeles Times. November 28, 2012. Retrieved December 8, 2012.
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