GREENWICH, CONN. — “Carnival of the Animals,” Danish sculptor Bjørn Okholm Skaarup’s first American museum exhibition, will be on view at the Bruce Museum October 31–January 3. The sculpture...
By Rick Russack CHESTER, N.H. — Six hundred wonders of contemporary folk art line the main streets and back roads of Chester, a small town less than 15 miles southeast of Manchester. Each year, for the entire...
By Anne Kugielsky Homage to Savitsky: Collecting 20th Century Russian and Uzbek Art; Ildar Galeyev, author, Russian edition; English edition by Friends of the Nukus Museum (editor); Arnoldsche Art Publishers,...
Review by W.A. Demers Photos Courtesy of Doyle NEW YORK CITY — The Metropolitan Museum of Art has done some housecleaning of late, resulting in some authentic “museum-quality” merchandise coming...
By Laura Beach DOWNINGTOWN, PENN. — Pook & Pook’s October 3 Americana sale was a compendium of the various and sundry adding up to a handsome $1,581,752. Of the myriad delights offered, no piece...
Review by W.A. Demers, Photos by R. Scudder Smith RHINEBECK, N.Y. — Show revivals are tricky. Especially when the attempt is to bring back something once considered unique and compelling. Which the Rhinebeck...
PORTLAND, MAINE — Barridoff Galleries principal Rob Elowitch chuckled when checking record prices for James Fitzgerald (American, 1899–1971), whose “Saltin’ Mackerel aka Working Day, Monhegan”...
Review and Onsite Photos By Rick Russack, Catalog Photos Courtesy The Cobbs PETERBOROUGH, N.H. — The Cobbs auction gallery is in a restored mill building at Noone Falls, which can trace its heritage...
By Laura Beach RADNOR, PENN. — People who say there are too many antiques shows have it wrong. When it comes to fairs with distinct personalities serving discrete clientele, there are perhaps too few shows....
Longtime sports memorabilia collector and dealer John Arcand hosts the television show Big Ten Treasure Hunter, now in its second season airing on the Big Ten Network. He travels around the country, talking...
SPARKS, MD. — A stoneware water cooler with profuse incised federal eagle motif and attributed to Baltimore, Md., potter Henry Remmey, 1812-29, took $483,000, including buyer’s premium at Crocker Farm’s...
Review and Onsite Photos by R. Scudder Smith, Catalog Photos Courtesy Bunch Auctions CHADDS FORD, PENN. — It was a long auction, but it “went nicely across the board, especially the Christmas stuff,...