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(Issue Story)Getting More by Asking for Less
When asked by someone outside of the art and decorative arts world what museums to see in New York City, I always tell them about the American Folk Art Museum. “It’s fantastic, and it’s free,” is my stock recommendation.
“Access, Scale & Market Share,” a recent report by Remuseum, a think ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, May 2025
Stanley Whitney (b. 1946), untitled, 2020, gouache on paper. The Medford and Loraine Johnston collection, promised gift to the High Museum of Art. © Stanley Whitney. Photo courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
—Through May 25 —Atlanta, Georgia
Thinking Eye, Seeing Mind: The Medford and Loraine Johnston Collection at the High Museum ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Catalog of a Once-in-a-Lifetime Assemblage
A Book Review
Valley Culture: Constructing Identity Along the Great Wagon Road is the catalog for the special exhibition that celebrates the fifth anniversary of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies at Historic Trappe in Trappe, Pennsylvania. This gathering of painted boxes, cupboards, chests, and fraktur that enriched the daily lives ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)American Antiquarian Society Receives Paine Collection
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), Worcester, Massachusetts, has received a gift of more than 18,000 pieces of 18th- and 19th-century ephemera. The collection, assembled over several decades by Stephen Davies Paine (1932-1997) and given to AAS in his memory, is one of the largest and most pristine of its kind.
The ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Lost in Flooding
Asheville, North Carolina
A collection of 50 mostly southern high chairs, often lent to museums for exhibitions on life in Appalachia.
An elaborately carved 19th-century Buddha cabinet from Shanxi Province, China, for worship and honoring ancestors. A medieval suit of armor.
Antiques dealers and collectors typically think of themselves as custodians of items ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, April 2025
AHere 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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(Fragment)Garth’s Bonds Divvied Up, Receiver Wrapping Up Dissolution
On February 19 Judge Kim Brown of the Franklin County, Ohio, Court of Common Pleas ruled in the case of two $25,000 auctioneer bonds—one on behalf of Richard “Jeff” Jeffers and the other on behalf of Garth’s Auctions, Inc.—issued by the Cincinnati Insurance Company. The total of $50,000 is to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)50 Years of Sommer
In 1975, when Phyllis Sommer first opened her doors at Pumpkin Patch Antiques in Searsport, Maine, little did she know that 50 years later she’d still be opening those doors at the same location. Her 50th season begins on April 12.
According to Sommer, as a history major in college, her ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Coopertition
Beneath the Surface
We feel like foreign correspondents these days, with many of the observations you read here written on the go, what with scratching odd bits on the back of reading schedules and permission sheets, regularly scrounging around under ketchup packets and outdated registration cards for crusty pens and stubby ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hyland Granby Antiques Offers Seven Paintings from the Lewis Collection
In this fast-changing world, more collectors and executors of estates have been consigning works of high quality to the trade for sale rather than sending them to auction. “The buyers pay more money at auction with the high buyer’s premium, so the sellers can do better with a private sale ... (Read More)
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