By Kate Eagen Johnson CORNING, N.Y. – “These pieces are painterly compositions involving glassmakers, chemists, designers, glass selectors and cutters. The visitor needs to understand the process...
NEW YORK CITY — For curators Kelly Conway and Lindsy Parrott, the story behind the Tiffany Studios mosaic at Saint Michael’s Episcopal Church in New York City felt a bit like a detective story....
BALTIMORE – The Baltimore Art, Antiques & Jewelry Show runs August 24-27 at the Baltimore Convention Center, 1 West Pratt Street. Produced by the Palm Beach Show Group, the show is celebrating...
MONTEREY, CALIF. — RM Sotheby’s celebrated one of its most successful results to date this past weekend at its flagship Monterey sale, August 18-19, generating nearly $133 million, with 88 percent...
In 1876, a Chicago counterfeit mobster by the name of Big Jim Kennally hatched a plan to spring his best plate engraver out of jail: he would steal President Lincoln’s body from its resting place at the Springfield,...
EAST DENNIS, MASS. – Works by Harold Dunbar, Ralph E. Cahoon Jr and Anne Packard, all artists with ties to Cape Cod, were among the top sellers at Eldred’s summer Americana, paintings and sporting...
HARTFORD, CONN. – Two hundred years ago, formal education of deaf children and adults was first established in the United States with the founding of the American School for the Deaf (ASD) in Hartford....
By Jessica Skwire Routhier SHELBURNE, VT. – “Wild Spaces, Open Seasons: Hunting and Fishing in American Art” does not take a point-and-shoot approach. The exhibition that opened in Omaha...
Review and Onsite Photos by George Korn, Forager House Collection, Catalog Photos Courtesy Osona Auctions NANTUCKET – Rafael Osona’s annual Americana, Continental, fine art and marine auction...
DALLAS — The descendents of umpire John “Beans” Reardon always thought the picture they had hanging on their Austin, Texas, wall was just a print of Norman Rockwell’s famous 1949 Saturday Evening...
Bruce A. Austin, PhD, director of RIT Press at the Rochester Institute of Technology, makes a living from words, be it writing for – or editing – scholarly reviews and academic texts or in his weekly...
Review and Photos by Tom O’Hara UNION, MAINE – Paul Davis, promoter of the Maine Antiques Festival for the past 36 years, was pleased with the modest gains in the show’s numbers –...