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  • Art Basel Miami Beach Is Postponed One Year
    November 13, 2001
    The current situation in the United States forces the show management to refrain from carrying out the show, originally scheduled for December 13-16....
  • At the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Circus Takes the Center Ring
    November 13, 2001
    "The Circus In Twentieth-Century American Art," on view through January 6, includes works by George Bellows, Alexander Calder, John Steuart Curry, Charles Demuth, and Walt Kuhn....
  • The Speed Art Museum Has a Brush with History
    November 13, 2001
    The exhibition, drawn from the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, includes images of American statesmen, artists, inventors, writers, educators and scientists dating from the Eighteenth Century to the present...
  • Celebrating 50 Years at Hirschl & Adler
    November 13, 2001
    The exhibition will showcase masterpieces of Neo-classical furniture, silver, lighting, metalwork, porcelain and glass produced in the United States or made in England or France expressly for an American...
  • Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Exhibit Puts Life in Perspective
    November 13, 2001
    Colonial Williamsburg will present a compelling display of scenic carvings created by the late itinerant Arkansas artist Rupert P. Kreider (1897-1983) begining November 22....
  • International News Briefs
    November 8, 2001
    The Winter Antiques Show is postponed a day and moved to the Hilton New York....Ireland's National Gallery discovers a Rembrandt in its midst....Buyers of an Andrea del Sarto "copy" get the real...
  • The Evolving Market for Tech-Art
    November 6, 2001
    Artists are flocking to computers to create new works - art schools offer more and more courses with computer applications in the fine art and design areas - and a growing number of museums are acquiring...
  • Henry Francis du Pont's American Country Estate
    November 6, 2001
    On September 1, Winterthur continued its 50th anniversary celebration with an exhibition exploring its history as a great American country estate between 1902 and 1951. ...
  • New York Bidder Snags Top Axminster Rug at Doyle
    November 6, 2001
    The carpet had been in the same family for more than a century, and once graced the living room of a grand apartment on Quai Wilson in Geneva, Switzerland. Its large, square size indicates that it was most...
  • Tiffany Wisteria Floor Lamp Lights Up $3 Million Fontaine Auction
    November 6, 2001
    The lamp reached $324,800, while In the furniture category, a Wooton desk set a new world auction record when it fetched $123,200. ...
  • Confederate Officer's Sword Draws $54,625 in New Orleans
    November 6, 2001
    The sword, forged by Alexandre Henri Dufilho, a New Orleans sword maker, brought a record price at auction for a Confederate object....
  • Virginia Gallery Hosts Annual American Glass Sale
    November 6, 2001
    A yearly pilgrimage for many, the auction topped $400,000 and "produced numerous record highs for rdf_Descriptions in the upper three and lower four figure ranges. It's good to see that scarce...

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