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Showplace Antique + Design Center will present an important estate sale of the late Japanese-American master artist Norio Azuma on Thursday, May 17...Full story

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Nest Egg Auctions’ Spring Art and Antiques Auction on Saturday, May 5, had many pieces soaring above estimates. “We are thrilled with...Full story

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One of the greatest royal portraits of the 20th century, Pietro Annigoni’s 1954-5 painting of the queen is to go on public display for the first time...Full story

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American Indian collection fresh to Caddingan auction May 19

American Indian collection fresh to Caddingan auction May 19

BRAINTREE, Mass. – Caddigan Auctioneers Inc. will conduct an important estates auction on Saturday, May 19, beginning at 10 a.m. EST. Leading this sale will be an impressive private collection...

A.H. Wilkens to sell Art Deco Noritake collection June 1-2

A.H. Wilkens to sell Art Deco Noritake collection June 1-2

TORONTO – Art Deco Noritake porcelain, with its lively, bold colors and high style, has become immensely attractive to collectors in recent years. For anyone who is drawn to this porcelain, A.H....

Hewlett's auction to feature William Coulter artwork May 20

LE GRAND, Calif. – Hewlett’s Antique Auction Co. announces a fabulous Central Valley Estates Auction will take place on Sunday, May 20, starting at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. LiveAuctioneers.com...

Old Toy Soldier Auctions issues a call to muster for June 2-3 sale

PITTSBURGH – Armchair generals and commanders of upscale bathtub fleets worldwide will show their firepower over the weekend of June 2-3 during a very special Old Toy Soldier Auctions event containing...

Trinity International's May 19 art auction spans centuries

AVON, Conn. – Trinity International Auction will auction a complete range of works from old masters to contemporary works on Saturday, May 19, beginning at noon EDT. Bidding will be live, phone/absentee...

Fine art, fantastic furniture at Clars auction May 19-20

Converse to run clocks, toys, fine art at May 24 sale

Dolls, toys, books and more to discover at Skinner, May 16-17

Countdown is on for Heritage space memorabilia May 12

Silver, jades, enamels at Auction Gallery of Palm Beaches, May 14-15

Showplace to auction estate of artist Norio Azuma, May 17

Kaminski presents potent lineup for art auction May 17

Morphy's May 26 Marbles sale includes rare 'miniature artworks'

Old Masters through contemporary works at Skinner, May 18

Kaminski's May 16 Photography sale features Weegee, other greats

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Michaan’s Auctions will sell Charlie Parker alto sax June 8

Michaan’s Auctions will sell Charlie Parker alto sax June 8

ALAMEDA, Calif. – A saxophone identified as belonging to jazz legend Charlie Parker is being offered at Michaan’s Auctions on June 8. The 1930s E-flat alto sax is expected to sell for $30,000-$35,000. LiveAuctioneers.com...

TV reality show appearance leads to suspect's arrest

TV reality show appearance leads to suspect's arrest

WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. (AP) – Police say a reality TV show appearance has led to the arrest of a Colorado man accused of stealing an antique gun from a private collection in New Mexico. Police in...

Mucha masterpiece 'Slave Epic' unveiled at Prague palace

PRAGUE (AFP) – The Slav Epic by Alfons Mucha, a Czech Art Nouveau gem, went on display in Prague on Thursday, fulfilling the wish of the artist who spent 18 years on the series of paintings from...

Jake Chait co-stars in new Discovery series 'Final Offer'

NEW YORK – Buying and selling may seem like simple tasks, but when it comes to valuable antiques and rare collectibles, the stakes are higher than ever. In Discovery's new series hosted by Michael...

Dead Sea Scolls exhibit opens under careful scrutiny

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Inside a climate-controlled storage room with a guard posted at the door, Tania Treiger unzips a purposely nondescript case and lifts out one of the world's oldest and most significant...

Settlement reached in sale of Ira Gershwin letters

Indiana's RV hall of fame a trip down memory lane

N.M. teens on field trip find 900-year-old artifact

USS Iowa outfitted for next mission: battleship museum

Illegal digging epidemic in Egypt amid security breakdown

Auction disperses contents of historic Balsams resort

Man charged in beating death of Detroit shop owner

In Memoriam: Carroll Shelby, legendary car designer, 89

SPOKES: MotoGP - Estoril, Portugal

LiveAuctioneers.com reports strong 1st-quarter results

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Cowan’s Auctions tops $1.6M in historic firearms sale

Cowan’s Auctions tops $1.6M in historic firearms sale

CINCINNATI – Cowan's Auctions Inc. Historic Firearms and Early Militaria Auction, May 2-3, realized $1.6 million in sales. Nearly 2,600 people from over 15 different countries bid on the telephone,...

Sol LeWitt sculpture hits $118,000 at Nest Egg Auctions

Sol LeWitt sculpture hits $118,000 at Nest Egg Auctions

MERIDEN, Conn. – Nest Egg Auctions’ Spring Art and Antiques Auction on Saturday, May 5, had many pieces soaring above estimates. “We are thrilled with the results. The Auction did really...

Sterling Associates auctions Chinese bronze for 25 times high estimate

CLOSTER, N.J. – In the March 31 follow-up to their December estate art and antiques auction debut, the New Jersey estate specialists Sterling Associates again saw proof that their “hybrid”...

Bertoia’s March 23-24 antique toy auction reaches $1.3M

VINELAND, N.J. – Bertoia’s March 23-24 ‘Made to Be Played’ auction, a 1,400-lot offering highlighted by the Grover Van Dexter European tin toy collection, closed the books at an impressive...

Intense bidding pushes art to record highs for Hindman

CHICAGO – With a filled auction room of private collectors, dealers and very active telephone and online bidders Leslie Hindman Auctioneers spring auction of Contemporary, Modern, American and...

1949 Bigsby guitar hits high note in Heritage sale: $266,500

Skinner April 20-21 Asian Art sale grosses $3.2M

Dallas Auction Gallery sells Cruz-Diez artwork for record $519K

Yankees World Series ring sells for $15,600; Mar. 25 at Tim's Inc.

Cowan's American Indian Art auction tops $835K

Kamelot’s Apr. 14 auction of garden antiques a walk in the park

Cigar store Indian tops Showtime auction at $94,400

Kaminski's modern and glass auction makes big splash

Heritage sells Declaration of Independence copy for $597,500

Kaminski sells Chinese art collection for $2.6M

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Santa Fe festival will honor Navajo artist Tony Abeyta

Santa Fe festival will honor Navajo artist Tony Abeyta

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – Artist Tony Abeyta just can't help himself. Pushing up his sleeves and letting his fingers make one more run through his deliberately tousled hair, he reaches for a bit of...

Annigoni portrait of Queen Elizabeth added to exhibit

Annigoni portrait of Queen Elizabeth added to exhibit

LONDON – One of the greatest royal portraits of the 20th century, Pietro Annigoni’s 1954-5 painting of the queen is to go on public display for the first time in 26 years at the National Portrait’s...

O'Keeffe museum curator Barbara Buhler Lynes resigns

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – Few people in the world know as much about the life and art of Georgia O'Keeffe as Barbara Buhler Lynes, who resigned Friday after years as curator and director of the research...

In Memoriam: children's author Maurice Sendak, 83

NEW YORK (AP) — Maurice Sendak didn't think of himself as a children's author, but as an author who told the truth about childhood. "I like interesting people and kids are really interesting people,"...

Top photographers auction work for slain journalist

NEW YORK (AFP) – Renowned photographers will sell signed prints at an auction hosted by U.S. television news mainstay Christiane Amanpour to raise funds for the family of Anton Hammerl, a photojournalist...

Slave Robert Smalls piloted little-known course in Civil War

Artist got his start painting designs on WWII aircraft

LiveAuctioneers taps Jamie Dwelly for UK Business Development post

Brazilian architect Niemeyer hospitalized in Rio

George Rodrigue again Louisiana's artist laureate

Woodstock wake held for The Band's Levon Helm

In Memoriam: Irish artist Louis le Brocquy, 95

IFAE names David Setford director of fine art fairs

Colombian artist Botero hits 80 with no plans to retire

Alec Baldwin pleads for more US arts funding

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Kovels - Antiques & Collecting: Week of May 14, 2012

Kovels - Antiques & Collecting: Week of May 14, 2012

Furniture has been made from carved and joined pieces of wood for centuries, but in every century there are a few designers who are intrigued by the forms of nature and use them to create furniture....

Furniture Specific: Cleverly concealed

Furniture Specific: Cleverly concealed

Watching a good craftsman work is always an entertaining way to spend some time. Have you ever studied the way an expert mason lays brick? The practiced moves and the economy of motion are striking....

Reading the Streets: Art along the High Line

NEW YORK – The city has been fostering public art since organizing the group outdoor exhibit “Sculpture in Environment” in 1967. Since then, more than 1,000 works ranging from the experimental...

Kovels - Antiques & Collecting: Week of May 7, 2012

Iron doorstops are among today's top-selling collectibles. They are probably not propped against a door to keep it open but are instead displayed like rare porcelain figurines on a prominent shelf....

Live Auction Talk: Titanic Memorabilia

Opulence is what attracted passengers to the Titanic. The ship was a palace, a ship of dreams and in the end, nightmares. The first-class passenger list read like a who’s who of the rich and...

Kovels - Antiques & Collecting: Week of April 30, 2012

Gallery Report: May 2012

London Eye: April 2012

Reading the Streets: Australian artist Yok in Brooklyn

Reading the Streets: VinZ’s misdeeds in Austria

Il mercato dell’arte in Italia: storie di furti e ritrovamenti

Art Market Italy: Stories of theft and recovery

Kovels - Antiques & Collecting: Week of April 23, 2012

Reading the Streets: The elephant in Columbus Circle

Auktiongesprache: Antico Mondo

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Features

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Winterthur's 'Uncorked' celebrates history, business of wine

Winterthur's 'Uncorked' celebrates history, business of wine

WINTERTHUR, Del. - Winterthur’s new exhibition, Uncorked! Wine, Objects & Tradition will have collectors lifting their glasses in a toast. The show comprehensively covers the influence of wine...

Napoleon and the Empire style in focus at Hillwood

Napoleon and the Empire style in focus at Hillwood

WASHINGTON - The journey of Napoleon from successful general to decorative arts icon is a fascinating chapter in art history. While his attempt to engineer political unification on the scale of ancient...

Western Colorado gold mining flume clings to its secrets

MONTROSE, Colo. (AP) – There is something about the tattered remnants of a 121-year-old mining marvel that keeps drawing the curious back to this remote canyon along Colorado 141. Those who keep...

Garden sculpture has long, illustrious history

Putting up sculpture in the great outdoors is one of man’s oldest compulsions. Religious devotion may have been the first motivation, but politics, aesthetic impact and human ego soon crept in....

Thornton Dial: Transcending the boundaries of self-taught art

The art world has divided its creative cast into artists with academic training in their craft and what might be called spontaneous artists, who paint or sculpt or fashion works just because they...

Titanic collection offered as 100th anniversary nears

Finding Lindbergh treasures changed man’s course

A Valentine’s tale: Boy courts girl? Not so fast!

Russian enamels: brilliant color, dazzling artistry

The final destination: location, location, location

Vintage lawn sprinklers are collectible garden art

Pittsburgh man lives on through his 'ghost signs'

Vintage electric guitar market rocks steady

Furniture designs of Zaha Hadid: fluid forms, perpetual motion

Sculpture for the people: John Rogers 19th century genre

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