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Art & Antiques, an American arts magazine, currently published by CurtCo Media. Art & Antiques...

Art & Antiques, an American arts magazine, currently published by CurtCo Media. Art & Antiques began with the March, 1984, issue, also called the "Premier Issue." 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. 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. Isolde Motley (who had formerly edited Art+Auction, went on to be the force behind the Martha Stewart publishing empire and was later Corporate Editor at Time Inc.) was the founding editor, followed, in 1986, by Jeff Schaire. For the first several years after 1984, Art & Antiques was an oversize publication. This stopped when it became apparent that the publishing costs were just too