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  • World Records Set at Shannon's Spring Art Auction
    May 14, 2002

    The Greenwich Civic Center bubbled over with enthusiasm for Shannon's spring art auction, which ended up breaking six world records – more depending on how you want to count them – to become the top-grossing art auction in Connecticut's history.

  • Monumental Money for Meissen in Maryland
    May 14, 2002

    Garnering the highest bid of the auction was a pair of Meissen pate-sur-pate, rose-ground parcel-gilt porcelain snake-handled covered urns, Nineteenth Century, bringing $33,000 from a dealer-collector.

  • The Philadelphia Museum of Art, LACMA Receive Major Mellon Foundation Grants
    May 14, 2002

    The foundation, with assets of approximately $4 billion, awards grants on a selective basis to institutions in higher education; museums and art conservation; performing arts; population; conservation and the environment; and public affairs.

  • John D. Block Leaves Post at Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg
    May 14, 2002

    "Although I have very much enjoyed my tenure with Phillips, I have decided that the time has come for me to realize my ambition to start a business of my own," he commented.

  • Artprice.com Expands Its Internet Appeal
    May 14, 2002

    The company's editor-in-chief, Peter Hastings Falk, announces that all 65,000 biographies in his three-volume "Who Was Who in American Art" are now accessible online. "The Internet is the most ideal medium for making our updated records quickly available to researchers."

  • The Currier Gallery Hosts a Visit from the Gypsies
    May 14, 2002

    The Renaissance is an age that continues to fascinate modern audiences, but this spring visitors to the gallery can experience it in person, by coming face to face with the actual art and artifacts of that era.

  • A New Look at a Neglected Modernist Master
    May 14, 2002

    Middleton Manigault's contributions to the history of the movement have been largely overlooked because of his early death, his reclusive lifestyle and the undocumented dispersal of much of his work.

  • Illuminating Contemporary Realism
    May 14, 2002

    Representational in subject and based technically on the work of the great Dutch still life painters, Jeremiah Stermer's still lifes have a certain surprise and tension that distinguishes his paintings among his peers.

  • Modernity in Sweden 1900-1960
    May 7, 2002

    A closed chapter or not, modernism still plays a central role in the contemporary discussion of architecture and design. Young artists, architects, and designers who are active today all relate in one way or another to the aesthetic and ideological heritage of modernism.

  • East Coast Private Collector Purchases Historically Important Paul Storr Seal Box in Pennsylvania
    May 7, 2002

    The circular seal box, engraved with the royal seal of King George III, included a royal document on parchment empowering one Phinius Bond with "Full Power" to negotiate parts of the John Jay Treaty with President George Washington.

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