February 24, 2009 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly

  • Buying On The Upturn Positive News From The York Toy Show
    February 24, 2009

    ⁉f you have the right things, youl have a good show here,†was the comment overheard in the lunchroom at Dan Morphy⁳ February 7 Antique Toy, Doll & Advertising Show, better known as the York Toy Show.

  • Lighting Goes Modern At Charleston Museum March 1
    February 24, 2009

    The Charleston Museum continues to shed light on the subject of lighting with the planned March 1 opening of an exhibition devoted to the modernization of lighting.

  • Robert Kent Sheldon, 73, Respected Antiques Dealer
    February 24, 2009

    Robert Kent Sheldon, 73, well-known antiques dealer and retired building contractor, died February 20 at his home in Newtown, Conn., following a five-year battle with cancer.

  • Bling In A Ring Fetches 42,000 At New Orleans Auction Galleries
    February 24, 2009

    There was plenty of furniture, art and fine accessories to bid on at New Orleans Auction Galleries†February 7 and 8 major estates event, but it was a ⁧irl⁳ best friend†that shone the brightest in the sale.

  • Antiques, Fine Art And Furniture Carry The Day At Neal Auction
    February 24, 2009

    Neal Auction⁳ February 7 and 8 estates auction got off to a solid start with the first lot across the block, setting the tone for the auction where many of the choicest items trumped their estimates.

  • Miami Beach Antiques Show Hosts 1,000 Dealers And 10,000 Visitors
    February 24, 2009

    The Original Miami Beach Antique Show ran January 22′6 with the flagship affair filling the massive convention center here with exhibitors in oversized spaces offering collections from every continent.

  • truscan TreasuresOn View At Dallas Meadows Museum
    February 24, 2009

    The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University presents ⁆rom the Temple and the Tomb: Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany,†a comprehensive exhibition of Etruscan art, on view through May 17.

  • ife, Liberty And The Pursuit Of HappinessAt Seattle Art Museum
    February 24, 2009

    Yale University Art Gallery⁳ renowned collection of American fine and decorative arts is traveling for the first time outside New Haven, Conn. Nearly 200 works illuminate the nature of the American creative experience from colonial beginnings to its coming of age at the World⁳ Columbian Exposition of 1893. On view are paintings by John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, John Trumbull, Edward Hicks, Albert Bierstadt, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins; silver by Paul Revere and Tiffany; furniture by P.E. Guerin and Alexander Roux; candlesticks by Jeremiah Dummer, and photographs by Eadweard Muybridge and Carleton E. Watkins, among others. ⁌ife, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art 1660‱893 from the Yale University Art Gallery,†now on view at the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Wash., through May 24, tells the tale of a young nation struggling to forge its own identity culturally, politically and geographically.



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