Imagine an antiques show as Cirque du Soleil and you get a sense of the New York Design Fair, which wrapped up its 2006 edition at the Seventh Regiment Armory on March 13.
The hall was packed with eager buyers for Northfield Auctions' first sale of the year with quality high-end lots selling well, said auctioneer Paul Gorzocoski.
Sandwiched between two major antiquarian book fairs in Los Angeles and San Francisco, PBA Galleries presented an auction of rare books and manuscripts on February 23.
George Ferrell has been in the business and conducting auctions for 39 years, as of last month, so he was not surprised by the good prices he recently received for some excellent antiques.
Show promoters said last month's Tailgate Antiques Show at Fiddlers Inn had its best statistics since the late 1990s and early buying was at a new high.
Music Valley Antiques Market, the second of the three big Nashville shows during Heart of Country Week, was a great success, according to the promoters.
Many rdf_Descriptions in the exhibition "Bauble, Bangles and Beads," exhibit at Yale University Art Gallery through July 23 are on public view for the first time.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the royal wedding, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will present "Fit for a Princess: Grace Kelly's Wedding Dress," on view April 1-May 21.
On April 1, the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage will premiere a major traveling exhibition tracing the shared roots of Jewish and Christian values and practices.