KNOXVILLE, TENN. — “It was a very energetic sale, with more than 6,000 registered bidders from more than 60 countries taking part in person, by phone and online, and a 98 percent sold rate. There was strength...
WELLS, MAINE — Moments after the Wells Antiques Show opened on June 30, John DeSimone, Goosefare Antiques & Promotions, said of the line awaiting admission, “I think that was the longest line I’ve...
RIDGEFIELD, CONN. — Show promoter Sue Brown Gordon has been trying for some time to get affluent Ridgefield into the orbit of shows that occur regularly in Greenwich, Norwalk and Westport. And why not?
The last time Antiques and The Arts Weekly interviewed Kayla Carlsen it was early in 2018 and she had been recently hired as vice president, head of Sotheby’s American art department.
NEW BRITAIN, CONN. — Diversity is one of the most overused buzzwords in the last few years, but in the case of a groundbreaking and large-scale art exhibition, the word is apropos.
WILLISTON, VT. — Leading Merrill’s Auctioneers & Appraisers’ July 12 Twentieth Century Modern Design & Fine Art auction was an oil on board by Allan Rohan Crite (American, 1910-2007) titled “Late...
MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. — The top lot of the day at the Benefit Shop Foundation’s July 10 Red Carpet auction was one of a pair of folk art portraits by American Nineteenth Century artist Joel Parks.
DALLAS — A notable highlight from Heritage’s July 12-13 Summer Sports Card Catalog Auction was a Honus Wagner 1911 M110 Sporting Life Cabinets card graded PSA EX 5 — the highest graded example in the world,...
HINGHAM, MASS. — The Copley Fine Arts sale on July 11 and 12 included a wide selection of decoys, decorative carvings and sporting art, much of it fresh to the market.
STURBRIDGE, MASS. — In an auction of Americana, Folk Art and Estate Items conducted by D.L. Straight on July 13, a large Native American feast bowl surpassed its $4,000 high estimate to achieve $4,608...
KIRKWOOD, N.Y. — Two “rare” and “unusual” lots led McMurray Antiques & Auctions’ June 29 sale, Auction #82, which offered an assortment of patent medicines, pills, tins, apothecary/drugstore...