There are two factors that measure the success of an outdoor show. The first one is uncontrollable: the weather. The second is controllable: the level of antiques offered by the exhibitors.
One of the most significant collections of American paintings in the world -- a sampling of 86 distinguished and enduring paintings from San Francisco's de Young Museum -- will travel to the East Coast...
At Pucker Gallery, Zevi Blum's compositions are filled with allusions to religion, mythology and fairytales and present a delightful panoply of characters.
The traveling exhibition, which makes Norfolk its first stop on a national tour, showcases a remarkable collection of glass made in the region during the Twentieth and Twenty-First centuries.
With important collectors, prominent dealers and distinguished museums from around the world bidding on the telephones and in the salesroom, the Morrill collection fetched $12,046,669.
The Conestoga auction, which totaled more than $660,000, attracted a huge amount of attention, including a record number of phone bidders for the gallery.
Auction buyers seem to have shaken off the recession blues, according to the gallery's owners, whose recent sale saw steady strong bidding in the room and from absentee bidders as well as periodic bursts...
There were myriad opportunities for people to either begin, continue or complete their own particular collecting "hunt" among 100 exhibitors of art and antiques from 15 states.