An Antiquarian's Tale

The rather sobering news that a French tourist, a woman who visited Luxor and purchased a metal statuette at a souvenir shop, was arrested by customs agents while leaving the...

The creative process leads to what we call art. That much I know, but the causal relationship between the artist or artisan and their art is something else altogether. How...

I would like to write about my good friend for over forty-five years, Mindy Papp, who died on March 11. Mindy was one of the two scions along with her...

Whenever I want to remind myself just how good some of the things I have that are for sale, I visit the Met. I don't mean for this to sound...

Accurately dating a piece of furniture is one reason that antiques have such a complicated place in peoples minds. This fact opened the doors to lots of charlatans who chose...

Stripping away layers of misunderstanding about the decorative arts--becoming expert, that is--requires, as I said last week, a certain amount of failure. It is hard to get away from the...