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January 2, 2019ONGOING EXHIBITIONS: Master Drawings New York, exhibitions are on view January 26–February 2 in 30 galleries on the Upper East Side. A preview at each of the participating galleries will be Friday, January...
December 31, 2018LONDON (AP) — Sister Wendy Beckett, an art historian and critic who rose to prominence on TV late in life, has died. She was 88. The Carmelite Monastery of Quidenham said Beckett died at the monastery...
December 31, 2018SPRINGFIELD, ILL. (AP) — The acquisition of 1,500 documents and artifacts for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum a decade ago firmly established Illinois as a leading repository of all things...
December 31, 2018WASHINGTON, DC (Courthouse News) – A painting of Ivan the Terrible stolen during World War II will be sent back to Ukraine, the United States announced on December 14 with the filing of a federal...
December 31, 2018By Madelia Hickman Ring NEWTOWN, CONN. – The end of the year is always an appropriate time to take stock and reflect on the headlines that have come and gone through the past 12 months. As 2018 winds...
December 31, 2018The name Jonathan Fairbanks is well-known to most students and collectors of American decorative arts. Now 85 years old, his career of more than 60 years has included curatorial stints at Winterthur and The Museum...
December 31, 2018Review and Onsite Photos by Rick Russack BOSTON – It still happens and Skinner’s December 14 Twentieth Century Design sale proved it. A rare piece of Marblehead pottery, found by a 19-year-old...
December 31, 2018By Madelia Hickman Ring NEW YORK CITY – Sotheby’s selection of offerings in Americana Week 2019 includes three stand-alone single-owner sales in addition to American furniture and folk art,...
December 31, 2018By Greg Smith NEW YORK CITY – A new decorative arts benchmark emerged in December as Christie’s set a world auction record for Tiffany Studios, selling a Pond Lily table lamp for $3,372,500....
December 31, 2018A collector redefined the saying “shake, rattle, and roll” in a successful bid to own a Native American Tlingit rattle — shaking other bidders and rolling out of the auction house door for $500,000....
December 31, 2018Frederick Douglass is said to be the most photographed American of the Nineteenth Century. It is also said that he sat for these portraits — more than 160 of them — in the hopes of instilling a deeply...
December 31, 2018By Jessica Skwire Routhier THOMASVILLE, GA. – If you are among the more than 11 million Americans who watched this year’s National Dog Show as part of your Thanksgiving Day celebrations, you know...
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