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CHICAGO -
Describing Susanin's Premiere Auction 74 on July 18 as being heavy in Asian arts is certainly an understatement. Consider lot no. 743127, a 10-foot-tall Japanese granite pagoda, weighs about...
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CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -
"Wow" is one word to describe the bidding action at Jackson's International June 23-24 auction, and perhaps "predictable" might be another. The sale saw one new world record...
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LONDON -
The venerable Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair, which has symbolized the highest standards of excellence in fine art and antiques for 75 years, has ceased...
Plentiful selection in Ro Gallery Summer Art Sale, July 23
NEW YORK - The dog days of summer aren't considered the peak season for selling art, but they have not kept Ro Gallery from assembling a noteworthy list of works for their Summer Sale of Modern and Contemporary...
Susanin's to sell 2-ton Japanese granite pagoda on July 18
CHICAGO - Describing Susanin's Premiere Auction 74 on July 18 as being heavy in Asian arts is certainly an understatement. Consider lot no. 743127, a 10-foot-tall Japanese granite pagoda, weighs about...
Moon and stars will shine at Wittlin & Serfer auction, July 19
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Cultural icons of the 20th century will be in the spotlight again at Wittlin & Serfer Auctioneers' Summer Fine Art Auction on July 19. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet...
Skinner conducting July 25 Sci./Tech., Clocks & Toys sale at new gallery
BOSTON - Skinner Inc. has announced it will host its annual sale of science and technology antiques, clocks and toys on Saturday, July 25 at the company's new gallery in suburban Marlborough, Massachusetts....
Kaminski's July 25-26 Estates Auction includes rare silver tankard
BEVERLY, Mass. - Kaminski Auctions, one of Massachusetts' premier antiques and fine art auction houses, has announced details of a two-day July Estates auction featuring antiques, fine art and collectibles...
NYC art gallery owner indicted again
NEW YORK (AP) - The owner of a closed Manhattan art gallery that once boasted a star-studded clientele was arrested again Tuesday on charges of carrying out an art fraud that now totals $93 million. Lawrence...
Check signed by reclusive astronaut Neil Armstrong in July 15 online auction
AMHERST, N.H. (AP) - A check that astronaut Neil Armstrong wrote the morning he blasted off for the moon 40 years ago is being auctioned by a New Hampshire company. The $10.50 check was for money Armstrong...
Thrifty tourist tips in Brussels include Magritte Museum, historic architecture
BRUSSELS (AP) - As the host city for many European Union institutions and their well-heeled Eurocrats, Brussels may not sound like the best destination for travelers on the cheap. A plate of mussels, a...
Donated decoys will help fund boy's treatment
LAROSE, La. (AP) - Duck decoys donated from people all over the nation were sold at an auction in Larose that raised $80,000 for a 14-year-old boy in need of a lung transplant. Dylan Danos, an incoming...
Iowa arts group hopes to reassemble Grant Wood mural
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) - An arts group is hoping to raise $120,000 to buy the remnants of a mural painted on a Council Bluffs hotel wall by Grant Wood in 1927. The Council Bluffs Arts Council is...
Mystery watercolor identified, earns record $1.2M at Jackson's
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa - "Wow" is one word to describe the bidding action at Jackson's International June 23-24 auction, and perhaps "predictable" might be another. The sale saw one new world record set, drew...
Newcomb vase nails record price at Neal's $1.5M Summer Estates Auction
NEW ORLEANS - A 1904 Newcomb College art pottery vase decorated by Marie de Hoa LeBlanc electrified Neal Auction's June 27-28 Summer Estates Auction when it sold for a record-smashing $169,200. The highly...
Bloomsbury Auctions' NYC Fine Wine debut totals $1.365 million
NEW YORK - Bloomsbury Auctions successfully entered the fast-growing wine auction market on June 19 with a competitive 17 percent buyer's premium and a set of guarantees unmatched by any other wine auction...
Allan Adler sterling flatware commands $15,525 at Leland Little
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. - An important and complete 132-piece modern hammered sterling flatware service for 12 by the renowned California silversmith Allan Adler sold for $15,525 at Leland Little's June 13-14...
Print of iconic Einstein photo sells for $74K
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - One of the original signed prints of Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out at photographers has been sold by a New Hampshire auction house for $74,324. "Every kid has it in their...
C.M. Russell Museum names Darrell Beauchamp new executive director
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) - The C.M. Russell Museum has a new executive director, Darrell G. Beauchamp, who was hired on Wednesday, July 8, 2009. He replaces Anne Morand, who will remain as the museum's...
Nicholas Dawes joins Heritage Auction Galleries
DALLAS - Heritage Auction Galleries has announced that Nicholas Dawes, longtime Antiques Roadshow personality and renowned expert in Lalique, art glass and decorative arts, has accepted a position with...
Remembering Michael Jackson, collector
LOS ANGELES (ACNI) - As the world already knows, Michael Jackson, King of Pop, is gone. He succumbed to cardiac arrest on Thursday, June 25, 2009, at his chateau-like Carolwood Drive home in the exclusive...
In Memoriam: actress, sculptor Farrah Fawcett, 62
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Farrah Fawcett, the Charlie's Angels star whose feathered blond hair and dazzling smile made her one of the biggest sex symbols of the 1970s, died today, June 25, 2009, after battling...
New Disney attraction celebrates man behind the mouse
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - He's the reason adults of a certain age can't stop themselves from finishing the song line beginning "M-I-C-K-E-Y," the force causing untold legions to see marching mops when they...
Der Kummer mit der Hoffmeister Sammlung
Das Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (MKG), Hamburg, blickt schmerzlich auf den 31. Juli. Das ist der Tag, an dem die Hoffmeister Kollektion für immer geschlossen wird. 400 Stücke exquisites Meissner Porzellan,...
Museum loses Meissen collection to recession
The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (MKG), Hamburg, is sad about July 31. That is the day the doors will close for good on the Hoffmeister Collection. The 400 pieces of exquisite Meissen Porcelain, which...
Kovels - Antiques & Collecting: Week of July 13, 2009
What's the difference between a settle, settee and sofa? All three evolved from the "bench," a furniture form with a flat wooden plank seat long enough to hold two or more people. A settle was in use by...
Kovels - Antiques & Collecting: Week of July 5, 2009
Before there were photographs and television, some of the best likenesses of important people were created by makers of ceramics. English Staffordshire potters made many versions of a figure about 15 inches...
Live Auction Talk: Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan
With God on Our Side was the third track on singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's third album, The Times They Are a Changin' in 1964. The antiwar song showed up at just as thousands of young people were trying...
Frank Gehry: Exceptional furniture enhanced
Today Frank Owen Gehry is best known for his successful and - sometimes controversial - architectural projects with sinuous metal facades. Often photographed, the most iconic works may be the Guggenheim...
Salmon labels are a prize catch from the great Northwest
ANACORTES, Wash. (AP) - When Carl Wedlund worked in the canneries, he pretty much did what his supervisor told him: He drove his boss around town, made coffee and cleaned bathrooms and storage areas....
Profile: Clars - the S.F. East Bay's premier auction gallery
BERKELEY, Calif. (ACNI) - On Sunday, June 7, Clars Auction Gallery in the San Francisco East Bay city of Berkeley was buzzing. It's a casual environment where people walk around in shorts, holding coffees,...
Antiques dealer lifts the lid on early Delaware cabinetmakers
GREENWOOD, Del. - Like most of the 13 American Colonies, Delaware had its own regional cabinetmakers. Today several museums in the state display examples of furniture produced in Delaware during the pre-...
Designer Alexander Girard: At Home in the World
The work of the late Alexander Girard, an architect and designer of interiors and textiles, has been well known in the design community for ages. He is best known as having been director of textiles for...
