John Strusinski has been a collector and dealer of tribal and Asian art for more than 40 years. After extensive travels throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania, he set up base in Jogyakarta,...
Photos by Greg Smith and Laura Beach PHILADELPHIA, PENN. – The Antiques Dealers Association of America (ADA) gathered in Philadelphia on Friday evening, April 21, to celebrate the accomplishments...
Up in the hills of New Paltz, N.Y., just beyond the southern edge of the Catskill Mountains, sits the monolith of natural beauty and New England hospitality known as Mohonk Mountain House. Built between...
SHROPSHIRE, ENGLAND — It was an off-key discovery for piano tuner Martin Backhouse when a piano donated to the Bishop’s Castle Community College turned up pouches of antique gold coins. “I...
DENVER, PENN. — The top lot in Morphy’s Auctions’ two-day automobilia and petroliana auction April 22–23, was sold on the first day, a Musgo Gasoline Michigan’s Mile Maker Porcelain Sign...
HUDSON, N.Y. — The top lot of Stair Galleries’ April 22–23 auction came late on the first day in the form of a Chinese speckled peach bloom glazed porcelain squat pear-form vase that was offered...
CAMBRIDGE , MASS. — A duo of researchers at Harvard — Danielle Allen and Emily Sneff — have uncovered a parchment manuscript of the Declaration of Independence, which they have dated, based on material...
PHILADELPHIA, PENN. — It was a full house at the opening gala for the Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show at the Navy Yard on Thursday night as collectors from the Northeast through the Mid-Atlantic...
WILLIAMSBURG, VA. — The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has acquired a notable collection of early Virginia-related maps. Through a part gift/part purchase agreement, the foundation has added...
By Lisa Minardi, Onsite Photos By Gavin Ashworth TRAPPE, PENN. – Imagine that it is 1787 and you are Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America (fig 1). For 45 years...
WASHINGTON, DC – Peter Voulkos (1924-2002) was one of the most influential American ceramicists of the Twentieth Century, celebrated for a radical approach that fundamentally transformed the field...
NEW BEDFORD, MASS. – Hundreds of scholars, artists and historians will gather for the Whaling Museum’s 29th annual Scrimshaw Weekend, May 12-14. The 8th annual Nautical Antiques Show, on Friday,...