Kate Fitz Gibbon is a member of the board of the Committee For Cultural Policy, a nonprofit organization committed to improving arts policy. She is also an attorney advising art collectors and museums,...
NEW YORK CITY — A new world record auction price for a letter by Charles Darwin was set at Bonhams September 21 at its history of science and technology auction. The personal and very pointed statement...
Review And OnSite Photos by Rick Russack, Catalog Photos courtesy CRN Auctions, Inc CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — CRN’s September 13 auction filled the salesroom and drew numerous phone and Internet bidders....
Review and Photos by Tom O’Hara STURBRIDGE, MASS. — Linda Zukas hosted for the 25th season her Antique Textile and Vintage Fashions Show and Sale at the Sturbridge Host Hotel on Labor Day, September...
Review and Onsite Photos by R. Scudder Smith Catalog photos Courtesy RSL Auction Company WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. — “We had more of Bill Werbell’s collection to sell, plus a number of other choice...
NEW YORK CITY — Why are toys habitually ignored in art, history and design circles? Are we inextricably drawn to powerful totems and thus avoid association with the possessions of weaker members of society?...
NEW YORK CITY — The Lewis Carroll Society of North America is celebrating the 150th anniversary of Caroll’s classic book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with a multifaceted initiative called...
Review and Onsite Photos by Rick Russack, Catalog photos Courtesy William Smith Auctions PLAINFIELD, N.H. — A standing-room-only crowd was on hand for Bill Smith’s Labor Day auction. There were several...
HADLEY, MASS. — In 1985, a major exhibition of Connecticut River Valley scholarship took place at Hartford’s Wadsworth Athenaeum. The exhibition and catalog, The Great River: Art & Society of the Connecticut...
NEW YORK CITY — The New-York Historical Society is proudly displaying a rare early copy of the Magna Carta, one of the most important historical documents in the world, in an exhibition titled “Magna...
NEW YORK CITY — A monumental oil on board by F. N. Souza, one of India’s most famous artists, set a new record price on September 17 at Christie’s when the 8-by-4-foot painting was bid to $4.01 million...
CHICAGO, ILL. — On September 16, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers conducted a single-owner auction of important jewelry from the estate of Rita Dee Hassenfeld. International dealers, collectors and institutions...