Urban Art & Antiques

The Bicentennial in 1976 marked America's 200th anniversary, prompting widespread celebration and the production of countless commemorative items. While nostalgia fuels collector interest, many items remain affordable due to their abundance. Personal memories, like a childhood train set, exemplify the era's enduring significance, reflecting a moment when the nation united around...

At the Butler Museum, a quiet landscape by George Inness seems empty… until a figure almost appears. In works like Winter Moonlight, presence never fully resolves. These aren’t paintings of people in landscapes, but landscapes that seem to generate them.

In a quiet gallery, viewers experience a dynamic interplay of color and sound, reminiscent of composer Wassily Kandinsky's chromesthesia. His art embodies emotion and rhythm, creating a fusion of senses. Similar artists explored these connections, prompting deeper inquiries into why art resonates beyond visual language, suggesting intertwined experiences of perception.

Pip: It is January 1917, and a small group of artists has just climbed inside the Washington Square Arch with blankets, lanterns, and what can only be described as a very specific agenda. Mara: That story comes from Urban Art and Antiques, and it anchors an episode about a single night in Greenwich Village that […]

It is a cold, clear wintry day, January 23, 1917 in New York’s Greenwich Village, and the city is in the middle of quietly changing its own mind. Washington Square Arch stands at the north end of the park like a piece of classical theater dropped into Manhattan by mistake. It is modeled on Roman […]