Art & Antiques
May 2009 cover of Art & Antiques
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| Categories | Art magazine |
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| Frequency | 10 per year |
| Founder | Wick Allison |
| First issue | March 1984 |
| Company | Art & Antiques Worldwide Media |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Wilmington, North Carolina |
| Language | English |
| Website | artandantiquesmag |
| ISSN | 0195-8208 |
Art & Antiques is an American arts magazine.
Art & Antiques launched its premier issue in March 1984. While the magazine disclaimed any connection to a previous publication of the same name, the company had in fact bought the rights from a previous magazine produced in the late 1970s and early 1980s. That magazine began as American Art & Antiques, later shortening its name to simply Art & Antiques.
The new Art & Antiques was founded and published by Wick Allison, who had previously founded D Magazine, a city magazine devoted to Dallas, Texas. A major investor in Allison's magazine was an insurance company, the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, which viewed the magazine as a prestigious publication and an asset to the firm's reputation.
The magazine's founding editor was Isolde Motley, former editor of Art+Auction, who went on to join Martha Stewart's publishing empire. Motley later served corporate editor at Time Inc. Jeff Schaire became the next editor of Art & Antiques in 1986.
Initially Art & Antiques was an oversized publication. The publishers switched to a standard format due to the high publishing and shipping costs.
Under editor Jeff Schaire, Art & Antiques published two stories that earned a great deal of publicity in the mainstream media. One of these was a story dealing with whether or not the Mona Lisa was actually a depiction of its artist Leonardo da Vinci and purported to produce scientific evidence that it in fact was.
But the story that produced a firestorm of publicity and was immediately picked up by Time and Newsweek dealt with the Helga paintings by Andrew Wyeth, which became a huge news story both because of the scandalous implication that the subject might be the artist's mistress and also because of the general belief that Wyeth had been producing over the course of many years a large body of as-yet-unknown masterpieces.
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