CAMBRIDGE, MASS. – The Harvard Art Museums’ newest special exhibition, “Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes and Kings,” opens September 7 at the Harvard...
The first item that Andrew Jones sold when conducting his first auction, at the age of 16, was a bunch of carrots. He has come a long way since then. His new company, Andrew Jones Auctions, will conduct...
Review and Photos by Walt Borton SANTA FE – Nine years ago, the veteran antiques and ethnographic show production team of Kim Martindale and John Morris launched an experiment in Santa Fe. In a single...
Review and Onsite Photos By Rick Russack MARLBOROUGH, MASS. – If you were wondering how Skinner’s August 12-13 sale did, consider that the first page of the catalog for the first day had 13 lots...
By Jessica Skwire Routhier SHELBURNE, VT. – There was some anxiety in Vermont when Shelburne Museum curator Kory Rogers announced his intent to organize an exhibition on cowboy culture. Would the show...
Review and Photos by Tom O’Hara UNION, MAINE – For the 37th consecutive summer, Coastal Promotions brought together exhibitors and shoppers for a three-day weekend at Union Fairgrounds for the Maine...
Review and Onsite Photos by Laura Beach CHESTER, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA – “They love their Nova Scotia painters,” a friend observed of Crowther & Brayley’s August 4 auction, an annual...
Would you sacrifice your summer vacation to solve a mysterious death? Helen A. Harrison, director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center and an authority on Twentieth Century American art, has authored...
Review and Onsite Photos By Rick Russack NANTUCKET, MASS. – Perhaps not surprisingly, Rafael Osona’s August 4 sale offered a selection of Nantucket furniture, Nantucket silver, Nantucket baskets,...
Review and Photos by Madelia Hickman Ring ORLEANS, MASS. – Good weather means different things to different people. When you are an antiques dealer at a one-day outdoor summer show, good weather...
BENNINGTON, VT. – The days were dark as the stock market crash of 1929 took its toll on the country in the early 1930s. It has often been said that the Depression didn’t have much impact in Vermont....
This week’s Across the Block stands tall with some notable selections that include a Connecticut case clock, a study in poplar and a bronze warrior that surpassed its original estimate six times...