By Greg Smith BOSTON – Jotted across the catalog cover for Sotheby’s January 25 single-owner auction “A New Dimension of Tradition, Important American Folk Art,” two lines of text...
By Laura Beach PHILADELPHIA – A standing-room-only crowd gathered at Sotheby’s on January 31, 1987, to watch auctioneer John L. Marion knock down what would soon be known, at $2.75 million...
Holiday entertainment and good old-fashioned commerce joined forces once again inside auction halls around the United States as sales that are traditionally conducted during the period between Christmas...
Review and Onsite Photos by Rick Russack PLAINFIELD, N.H. – Bill Smith’s auctions have consistently leaned heavily towards Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century art, Americana and “brown”...
The December 3, 2019, discovery of skeletal remains beneath an Eighteenth Century home in Ridgefield, Conn., launched a flurry of calls – to the local police department, the selectman’s office...
Review and Onsite Photos by Madelia Hickman Ring WINDSOR, CONN. – Nadeau’s Auction Gallery’s annual New Year’s Day sale – now in its 38th year – attracted bidders from...
Review and Onsite Photos by W.A. Demers COPAKE, N.Y. – Mike Fallon, co-owner of Copake Auction, recalls stepping through the door in 1986 and asking himself “Who would ever come to a New Year’s...
Review and Photos by Tom O’Hara GLASTONBURY, CONN. – Bob Barrows for the 40th year filled Glastonbury High School’s gym with more than 130 exhibitors on New Year’s Day 2020. This...
Photos and Review by Greg Smith STURBRIDGE, MASS. – The sun rose early on January 1 as dealers readied themselves for commerce at the Sturbridge Host Hotel for what would be their first show of the new year...
NEW YORK CITY — In a 2014 interview with Antiques and The Arts Weekly, veteran flea market manager Alan Boss, who has seen many markets come and go and noting then the recent closing of his indoor market,...
By Laura Beach MEDIA, PENN. — The Decorative Arts Trust has announced a new $100,000 annual prize to fund major arts initiatives. The organization is calling for proposals for what it has named the Prize...
Review and Photos by Greg Smith STURBRIDGE, MASS. – D.L. Straight Auctioneers offered up 388 lots from six estates, including some from the estate of Laura and Richard May, on December 28 at the Sturbridge...