With six phone lines vying for ownership, bidding opened at $5,000. The competition quickly escalated to the selling price of $24,750. The successful buyer, in the gallery, was a collector/dealer from...
The company said, however, that revenues over the same period decreased only a fraction of that amount by $4.9 million, or four percent, primarily as a result of the buyer's premium rate increase that...
Is there room for another show during Antiques Week in New Hampshire? If you ask that question of John and Tina Bruno, they will give you a very definite "yes."...
Attendance reached 401,000 for the exhibition, which was on view for a limited run of less than ten weeks. Nearly two-thirds of the visitors traveled from outside the five boroughs.
Colonial Williamsburg will display a selection of 16 bold objects of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century American cast-iron - from stovetop figures to fire backs - at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum.
"The Course of Empire: Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School Landscape Tradition," featuring selections from the New-York Historical Society, opens at the New York State Museum on August 23.
The first American museum exhibit dedicated to the innovative work of Korean contemporary ceramic artist Yoon Kwang-cho will be on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
This year marks the centennial of the death of the American-born expatriate painter, printmaker, designer, wit, dandy, champion of aestheticism and forerunner of Modernism.
The rare and extremely well-executed work had been found in a closet in a North Shore home and, ironically, was left behind after another auction company had been through.
John Pappas commented that as soon as the ads broke the phones started ringing, with calls coming in from all around the country requesting images and reserving phone lines.