An Antiquarian's Tale, Issue 321 January 13, 2025Clinton HowellThe Winter Show, formerly known as the Winter Antiques Show, begins one week from this coming Friday. It is at the uptown Armory between 66th and 67th Streets with the...
An Antiquarian's Tale, Issue 320 January 6, 2025Clinton HowellWhy does anyone bother visiting country houses? Unless you're an enthusiast of architecture, it's a reasonable question. Certainly, you will get a lot of different answers, some of which you...
An Antiquarian's Tale, Issue 319 January 6, 2025Clinton HowellI visited the exhibition, "Siena, The Art of Painting", at the Metropolitan Museum with a painter friend and she showed me photos that she was taking as we were about...
An Antiquarian's Tale, Issue 318 December 30, 2024Clinton HowellI reconnected with a friend from high school several years ago. He lives in San Francisco and has made a very good living. When he learned that I was an...
An Antiquarian's Tale, Issue 317 December 16, 2024Clinton HowellStyle does not run in a straight line even though we may want it to`. Connecting the dots from one style to the next is a measure of understanding not...
An Antiquarian's Tale, Issue 316 December 9, 2024Clinton HowellStyle evolution is confusing for a raft of reasons, some almost impossible to know unless you lived in the era. Take, for example, the American car companies of the 1950's....
