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July 9, 2002Sewell arrived in 1973, the year when the department of American art was founded, to become its first curator. His contributions to the entire field are remarkable....-
July 9, 2002Venable, whose artistic expertise is in American and European decorative arts, has served in positions of increasing responsibility at the Dallas Museum of Art since 1986 when he was appointed curator...
July 9, 2002The display has been called "probably the most ambitious exhibition shown by the Pennsylvania Academy in decades, and one of the grandest shows on Nineteenth Century America ever assembled."...
July 9, 2002The private and foundation collections of Eli and Edythe Broad, ranked among the foremost holdings of contemporary art in the world, will be on view at the MFA from July 21 through October 20....
July 9, 2002The exhibition captured national headlines earlier this year when the National Endowment for the Arts decided not to award a grant that was approved by the agency's review panels....
July 2, 2002Exhibitions always begin with a curator's dream, and Penelope Hunter-Stiebel went into her reverie when she revisited the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and realized the entire collection was languishing...
July 2, 2002Wiggins was a personal friend of the Old Lyme family of George Cummings, who had consigned additional furniture and decorations. Items from a Manhattan estate, and fine art and antiques offered on behalf...
July 2, 2002The vane, a cast zinc and copper trotting horse example from a local estate, was the largest made by the West Bridgewater, Mass. firm, and was won by a dealer....
July 2, 2002An impressive stand-out in the American furniture category, the carved oak dining room suite was attributed to R.J. Horner Co., New York, and sold for $44,850....
July 2, 2002"We expected this piece to do well," Jack DeStories, Fairfield Auction owner, said, indicating that he had found the carving in a box while gathering other things for the sale. ...
July 2, 2002The imposing secrétaire is one of only six examples known and "represents the influential firm of Morris & Company at its highest level of excellence," says Dr David Park Curry, curator...
July 2, 2002The date coincides with the celebration of the Lunar New Year, the traditional start of the year for many Asian cultures, and culminates an eight-year, $160.5 million public/private partnership....
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