Carrie Stettheimer spent 19 years decorating this tiny house, on view at the Museum of the City of New York. She even asked Duchamp to reprise his most famous nude at three inches.
Openings and Closings: April 14 to April 20 Elizabeth Lanza
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The Philadelphia Show | Art, Antiques + Design
Beginning next week,
The Philadelphia Show art and antiques fair returns in an online format. From April 23–30, sixty outstanding antiques dealers and fine art galleries will offer some of the best in painting, furniture, ceramics, Americana, textiles, and more. Plus, be sure to take in the special exhibition of animals in art, curated by the irrepressible Alexandra Kirtley of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Even when it’s virtual, the Philadelphia Show promises another fantastic exposition. If you want to get ahead of the game, you can check out this year’s exhibitors here.
Featured in The Shrunken World of Denis Savary
At Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, the artist’s series of dollhouses reference literature and art history to reveal a bygone bourgeois ideal
Denis Savary’s exhibition, ‘Ithaca’, at Galerie Maria Bernheim comprises three large dollhouses modelled after the red-shingled roof and stucco exterior of Swiss suburban family homes. By distorting these generic forms, the Geneva-based artist unsettles associations with a bygone bourgeois ideal, projecting a literary and art-historical phantasmagoria onto its components. It is as if an altered centre of gravity has warped these oversized miniatures, leaving roofs concave and doors slanted. The effect is uncanny, precisely in the way Sigmund Freud’s defined the term in his eponymous 1919 essay about the familiar-yet-eerie nature of dolls.
Wandering Eye: All eyes on America(na) Editorial Staff
AMERICANA WEEK
In addition to sales of important Americana, furniture, folk, and outsider art at New York’s two major auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s a number of events are taking place that we urge you to turn your eyes toward: Celebrating its sixty-seventh year as the leading art, antiques, and design fair in the country, the Winter Show will be presented digitally in this edition. The show benefits the East Side House Settlement, and is now open for a VIP preview. Events open to the public on Friday, January 22. In addition to showcasing important works of art on offer from sixty-plus dealers, the Winter Show’s web portal will serve as a hub for a variety of events taking place, including several to be presented by