
Since 1993, when George opened his gallery, it has been featured in national, international and regional decorating, lifestyle and general interest magazines, and George has been quoted as an expert on various categories of antiques and collecting. We've assembled a collection of these articles on our web site, and you can read excerpts by following the links below.
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Antiques Roadshow Insider (far left) The article "Earth to Collectors" informed fans of the PBS program Antiques Roadshow about globe collecting. George's insights are prominently featured. Read what he had to say. Connecticut Cottages & Gardens (center left) George discusses the market for antique celestial prints, and examples from our inventory illustrate this article in July 2006. Read more here. Country Living (center left) Our inventory of gavels is highlighted in the October 2000 article Vintage Gavels. Read more about our gavels or purchase them. |
Southwest Airlines Spirit (near right) An article in Southwest's in-flight magazine in August 2000 captured the ambiance of the Gallery as well as George's approach to globe collecting. Read selections from The World In His Hands. Victorian Homes (far right) Globes sold by the George Glazer Gallery to a private collector were featured in the article, Global Wonders, in December 2002 (above right). George is quoted in the article. Read more here. Elle Decor (near left) George is interviewed by Kendall Cronstrom in Elle Decor's fourth installment in their series on what drives a collection: Global Impact, in 1998. Read more here. |
Aladin (left) They've come from all over to interview George. In 1999, it was a French magazine, for an article entitled "Monsieur Univers". |
New York Magazine (left) A 1996 feature on The New Dealers, the new generation of "quirky, cool antiques dealers" leads with a full-page photo and article on George. Read it here. |
Cigar Aficionado (right) George was interviewed by the well-known art critic Judd Tully for the article Thinking Globally, in the August 2001 issue (right). Read more. |
Country Living (far left) George talks about the history of American globes in Small Worlds: Collectors are responding to the universal appeal of globes, 1997. Read more. Elle Decor (near left) George was a featured entrepreneur in "The Globe Guy: Worlds of Difference," 1996. The writer notes, "The objects in George D. Glazer's Upper East Side gallery do not lack for personality, and neither does their keeper." Read more. Dallas & Fort Worth Home Living (right) George talks about collecting globes in Global Warming: Collectors are cozying up to the notion of gathering globes, March 1999. Read more. |
Vanity Fair (near right) The opening of the George Glazer Gallery in 1994 was featured. Read more. The Map Collector (center right) George was interviewed in 1994. Read more. Tuftonia (far right) George's alma mater, Tufts University, profiled him in the alumni magazine. Read more. Showcase (left) In 2001, George was interviewed for a short feature, Going Global. Read more. |
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George has made a number of TV and radio appearances as an antiques expert on national shows such as Martha Stewart Living and the PBS antiques show Find! hosted by Leigh and Leslie Keno. See the complete list below.
Find! Leigh and Leslie Keno paid a visit to the George Glazer Gallery on Episode 125 of their PBS TV show about antiques. Find more here. Common Ground George was interviewed by Keith Porter in a segment titled Spinning the Globe for this weekly nationally-syndicated program on world affairs. Program aired February 2002. ![]() |
Martha Stewart Living Television Program |
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Fox News, New York City (right) |
George's expertise in the study of globes and globemaking has also been recognized by scholars and curators in cartography and decorative arts. He has loaned globes to museum exhibitions across the United States, including the Adler Planetarium and the Bruce Museum of Arts and Sciences, and has lectured on the history of American globes.
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The Greatest Grid The George Glazer Gallery has loaned several maps and views of Manhattan to the Museum of the City of New York for the special exhibition The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011, an exhibition celebrating the 200th anniversary of the plan laying out the streets of the city. The maps and views are also reproduced and described in the accompanying exhibition book. Read more here. Boscobel House & Gardens The Gallery loaned a Fanny Palmer lithograph to Home on the Hudson, a 2009 summer special exhibition at this historic house museum of 19th C. Hudson River School paintings and prints. The Palmer print was also reproduced in the accompanying catalog. Read more here. James Cohan Gallery The Gallery loaned to Cosmologies, a thematic exhibition at this New York City art gallery, comprised of works from a wide range of cultures and eras up to the present. Read more here. India House Club The Gallery loaned two 19th-century maps of New York City to Forged by Fire, an exhibition honoring the anniversary of September 11, 2001 that documented the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan after fires in the 18th and 19th centuries. Read more here. Bruce Museum of Arts & Sciences (4th row left) The gallery loaned a combination orrery-tellurian and a moon globe to the exhibition Space 2001: To the Moon and Beyond, on view January 14 through April 15, 2001. Read more here. Adler Planetarium (bottom left) One of our globes actually orbited the earth. Collector Robert Gordon donated a Lane Pocket Globe from the George Glazer Gallery to Chicago's Adler Planetarium. The Adler arranged for astronaut John Grunsfeld to bring it on a space shuttle mission on December 19, 1999. San Francisco Airport (3rd row right) In the fall of 2000, the Gallery loaned a group of globes to the San Francisco Airport Commission Exhibition, A History of American Globes, 1820 to Present. The previous year we loaned an 1894 globe to another exhibition there, A Moment in Time--The Twentieth Century at a Glance. More exhibition photos. Stewart Museum Globe Symposium and Book Review (bottom right) George joined globe scholars from around the world at the Stewart Museum Globe Symposium in Montreal in October 2000, on the occasion of a special exhibition of the Stewart Museum's fine collection of globes entitled "Yes! The World is Round" (February 2000 to March 2001). Read more. |
George Glazer and items from the gallery have been featured in articles on collecting and shopping guides in major publications, includingThe New York Times, Forbes, Domino and Architectural Digest:
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Forbes Life Robb Report Country Living New York Times The Spectator Partners & Spade Art + Auction Art & Antiques Southern Accents Architectural Digest Kansas City Star New Jersey Life Domino Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 Southern Accents International Herald Tribune Details Magazine The New York Times Town & Country Elle Decor Vogue Colonial Homes Detroit News Online Article Worth Magazine |
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The Gallery has participated in a variety of antique shows and exhibited globes, maps and prints at stores such as Bergdorf Goodman and Ralph Lauren. Interior designers have borrowed items from the gallery for designer show houses.
Doyle New York ![]() Library Association Conference Miami Map Fair(right) In February, 2001, George demonstrated his expert knowledge as a featured speaked at this event in Florida. Read more. |
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Lenox Hill Fundraiser Elle Magazine Fall Antiques Show, The Pier, New York CityGeorge's booth at this 1994 show had plenty of globes and prints and a few whimsical surprises. View pictures. Gatherings at the Gallery |
Ralph Lauren Design with Globes In 1996, interior designer Julia Bayer used globes from the Gallery for her client. View her designs. |
BusinessUSVI The Seven Seas, Nantucket Wendy Armory Show In 1994, George was represented at this national and regional antiques show. Read more. |
![]() This Old Showhouse ![]() 2005 Designer Showhouse of New Jersey National Symphony Showhouse, Washington, DC |
Maps and celestials from the gallery have been reproduced in books including several pictorial maps in You Are Here by Katherine Harmon (Princeton Architectural Press: 2004).
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You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination (left) Several maps from the inventory of the George Glazer Gallery were selected by author Katharine Harmon for her 2004 book You Are Here. Read more here. |
Map of the Hamptons (right) The George Glazer Gallery commissioned a map of the Hamptons, New York which was then featured on a two-page spread in the book, In the Spirit of the Hamptons by Kelly Killoren-Bensimon. Read more here. |
Made to Order (left) An antique slate globe from the gallery is included in a photo of one of Campion Platt's colorful modernist interior designs in this lavishly illustrated book from 2010. See it here. |
Banvard's Folly (right) Writer and editor Dave Eggers chose a detail of a chart from the Gallery's collection for his design of the cover of a book by his colleague Paul S. Collins. Read more here. |
![]() Incognito (right) A hand-colored engraving of Castle Howard from the early 19th century decorates the cover of the 2009 reissue of Suzanne Allain's novel Incognito. More information here. |