Eve M. Kahn

Eve M. Kahn wrote the weekly antiques column for the New York Times from 2008 to 2016. She is the author of ‘Forever Seeing New Beauties: The Forgotten Impressionist Mary Rogers Williams, 1857–1907’ (Wesleyan University Press), and is finishing a biography of Zoe Anderson Norris for Fordham University Press.

Alexander Jackson Davis’s towers of power

The architect’s Gothic Revival masterpieces were sought after by some of the most successful Americans of the day

30 June 2025

The young collectors on the hunt for Old Masters

New York-based collectors Domenico Lanzara and Sean Imfeld speak to Apollo about their obsession with Old Master drawings

22 October 2024

What real American women have worn at home, at work and in wartime

The New-York Historical Society weaves together personal and social histories by assembling all manner of garments, from workwear to rebelwear

10 October 2024

The silversmith who struck gold at Tiffany

Edward C. Moore played a crucial role in the firm’s 19th-century success and his own collecting inspired some of its most impressive creations.

25 July 2024

The ceramics at TEFAF New York are worth getting fired up about

The wares on offer at the event this month are enough to bowl over any ceramics aficionado

8 May 2024

The restless spirit of Sonia Delaunay

The artist’s irrepressible energy shines out in this survey of her long career at Bard Graduate Center, writes Eve M. Kahn

31 March 2024

Family favourites – at home with Michael and Winnie Feng

The couple’s apartment in New York contains Chinese antiquities of impeccable provenance, as well as photographs of illustrious forebears

30 January 2023

On point – the wearing of lace has always been tied up with social status

Lace-making is an exacting craft – and who gets to wear the results is an equally delicate matter

31 October 2022

Gilt complex – ‘Gold in America’ at Yale University Art Gallery, reviewed

The gold objects in this show may glitter, but some of their previous owners are cast in a far from flattering light

5 April 2022

The museum that introduced America to modern art

As the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. celebrates its centenary, the museum is also looking firmly to the future

19 November 2021