WILLIAMSBURG, VA. – Renowned as one of the leading annual decorative arts gatherings in the country that attracts curators, scholars, collectors and aficionados each winter, the 69th Colonial Williamsburg...
Back in September, Antiques and The Arts Weekly Editor Scudder Smith was in Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y., covering the Adirondack Museum Antiques Show when a gleaming display of restored kitchen antiques caught...
Review and Onsite Photos by Rick Russack, Catalog Photos Courtesy John McInnis Auctioneers NEWBURYPORT, MASS. – The 1807 house had been owned by only two families and when the last owner bought it in the 1960s,...
Review and Photos by Tom O’Hara CHANTILLY, VA. – Dulles Expo Center was overflowing with antiques, dealers and shoppers on the fall foliage weekend, November 5-6, as Joan Sides and her crew...
There aren’t many people who can pull off a bejeweled tie. It’s just not something we should all be doing. However, if that tie were to take the form of an Art Deco brooch with diamonds, rubies,...
LONDON — In an effort to give a real, intimate perspective into the creative minds of some of Britain’s prominent Twentieth Century artists, archivists at Tate Modern have undertaken the process...
TORONTO, CANADA — The top lot of Heffel Auction’s November 23 sale was Lawren Harris’ “Mountain Forms,” which attained $8.28 million ($11.2 million in Canadian dollars), to lead the $30-million...
NEW YORK CITY — Paul Manship’s Art Deco sculpture depicting Diana the huntress, smashed estimates at the Bonhams’ American art auction November 22, selling for $727,500, nearly double its low estimate....
WEST SUSSEX, U.K. — Summers Place Auctions, a specialist in natural history auctions, announces the sale of a 95 percent complete composite skeleton of a Dodo — the first to come up for sale since...
NEW YORK CITY – Paddles were in the air for N.C. Wyeth’s 1906 oil on canvas painting “Hands Up,” auctioned by Christie’s on November 22 for a record $4,951,500. The illustration, which nearly...
NEW YORK CITY —Sotheby’s November 21 sale of American art at totaled $28.6 million, led by Norman Rockwell’s “Which One?,” a painting that appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post prior...
By James D. Balestrieri NEW YORK CITY — Just before “Jerusalem 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven” opened to the public at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in September, I was standing in the rain...