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Colby Receives Significant Gift from Marin Family
by M.A.D. Staff

The Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, announced it has received 184 works of art from the estate of Norma B. Marin. Marin (1930-2022) was married to John Marin Jr, son of the Modernist painter John Marin. Over the last 50 years, the Marin family has gifted to the ... (Read More)

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Hanging with Mark Indursky of Lost Found Art
by Julie Schlenger Adell

When M.A.D. recently bumped into Mark Indursky, he was visiting the Found Object Show: Art without Intent in Manhattan. As many collectors will do, he arrived early to peruse what might appeal. Scoping out the show was certainly an easier endeavor than the time he fished out a crushed bucket from ... (Read More)

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New York’s Investigation of Sotheby’s Expands
by M.A.D. Staff

A court filing on April 21 reveals that the New York attorney general’s investigation into alleged improper use of resale certificates at Sotheby’s has expanded. In November 2020 New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against Sotheby’s, accusing the auction house of defrauding the state of New York ... (Read More)

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Book Reviews
by M.A.D. Staff

Florida Sculptors and Their Work: 1880-2020 by Deborah C. Pollack (Schiffer Publishing, 2022, 184 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from Schiffer Publishing [www.schifferbooks.com] or [610] 593-1777). The first thing you should do with Deborah C. Pollack’s Florida Sculptors and Their Work: 1880-2020 is flip through its pages to scan the images ... (Read More)

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A Curious Plan
by Clayton Pennington

How does a relatively new museum get objects? In Tennessee, two legislators want to raid the Tennessee State Museum’s storage area. On January 30 a bill was introduced in the Tennessee State Legislature that would require the Tennessee State Museum to turn over all artifacts relating to the Confederate States of ... (Read More)

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Quest for the Chest: Madeline Yale Wynne’s Masterpiece
by Bruce A. Austin

Photographs by Penny Leveritt, courtesy Historic Deerfield An inadvertent encounter with an unassuming turn-of-the-20th-century photograph of a 1903 bride’s chest, tucked in among hundreds of other images, prompted a two-decades-long search to bring the chest home. The improbable, against-all-odds hunt led eventually to a fund-raising campaign for the linen-style chest’s acquisition ... (Read More)

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Minardi Named New Editor of Americana Insights
by M.A.D. Staff

Scholar, author, and curator Lisa Minardi will serve as the new editor of Americana Insights, a publication focused on 18th- and 19th-century Americana and American folk art. Minardi succeeds founding editor Robert Shaw, who retired at the start of 2023. Minardi serves as executive director of Historic Trappe and its Center ... (Read More)

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Exhibitions, June 2023
by M.A.D. Staff

Angelo Testa, IBM Disks, 1952-56, linen plain weave, screenprinted, 51¾" x 104¾". Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Costume Council Fund. Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA. —Through July 2 —Los Angeles, California Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982 at Los Angeles County Museum of Art explores how the rise of computer technology, ... (Read More)

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New Name for Utica Museum and Pratt Institute Extension
by M.A.D. Staff

The Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York, will now be known as Munson. Officials have also announced a master plan to redesign its 10-acre, 25-building campus in downtown Utica. Currently known as PrattMWP, the college of art and design at Munson will become Pratt Munson starting with the incoming class ... (Read More)

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Auction Prices Realized, May 2023
by M.A.D. Staff

Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer’s premium when charged. We’re always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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