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May 11, 2016NEW YORK CITY — Christie’s May 10 evening sale of Post-War and contemporary art attained $318 million, led by an untitled 1982 work by Jean-Michel Basquiat that set a new world auction record at $57.2...
May 10, 2016BOONTON, N.J. — “In the last few years many in the antiques business have commented that the only things selling are Midcentury Modern. We’re seeing clients wait for and seriously pursue distinctive...
May 10, 2016Review And Onsite Photos By Jill Fenichell NEW YORK CITY — Historic costume and textile auctions reveal much about two different streams of thought — one, having to do with the cyclical nature of fashion,...
May 10, 2016Review by W.A. Demers; Photos Courtesy Briggs Auction, Inc GARNET VALLEY, PENN. — On April 29, Briggs Auction, Inc conducted an estate antiques and decorative arts auction, featuring a selection of period...
May 10, 2016NEW YORK CITY — Sotheby’s sale of Impressionist and Modern art kicked off on May 9, led by masterpieces from the turn of the Twentieth Century. A new auction record for the artist was achieved as Auguste...
May 9, 2016NEW YORK CITY — Ian Wardropper, director of The Frick Collection, leads us through the fine and detailed Limoges enamel works that reside in the “enamels room.” The collection took shape in 1916...
May 9, 2016NEW HAVEN, CONN. — The Yale Center for British Art, home to the largest collection of British art outside the United Kingdom, reopens its doors on Wednesday, May 11, following an important, multi-year...
May 6, 2016By Greg Smith With the spring sales getting underway, we are looking forward to see how our hometown boys and girls fare against worries of a slowing art market. Our picks bring together some of the most...
May 6, 2016WORCESTER , MASS. — On May 21, the Worcester Art Museum (WAM) will open “Meow,” a cat-inspired exhibition, a multi-program initiative that explores the cat as both an iconic figure throughout art history...
May 6, 2016NEW YORK CITY — Jeff Rabin, Co-Director of Spring Masters, walks us through what we can expect out of the 2016 edition of Spring Masters New York, the perennial art and antiquities show. The show features...
May 5, 2016HARTFORD, CONN. — A broad coalition of antiques dealers, auctioneers, institutions and residents have succeeded — at least temporarily — in blocking attempts to legislate a ban on the sale and trade...
May 5, 2016WILLIAMSBURG, VA. — How were buildings constructed in the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries in Virginia? What did the builders use? What can the collecting habits of 85 generations of rats reveal?...
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