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(Issue Story)Tiffany Necklace Tops Rago Auction
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Rago
Dianne Batista, director of jewelry and watches at Rago, wrote in an email after the fall jewelry sale, held October 26 in Lambertville, New Jersey, “Just like the start of a new school year, the fall auction season is an exciting one! This auction had ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Devil—and the Deduction—Is in the Details
A ruling handed down October 6 in the United States Tax Court provides a valuable—albeit expensive—lesson for potential donors to museums.
In 2011, Heinrich Schweizer, the former director of African and Oceanic art at Sotheby’s, donated a Dogon sculpture to the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA). He expected a $600,000 deduction ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Storied Weathervane Lands at the Met
It’s an iconic piece of American folk art, and it’s now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
In September, the Met accepted the famed copper Blériot Model XI monoplane weathervane, a gift of collectors Michael and Patricia Del Castello of Carmel, California.
The Del Castellos ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Boxborough Antique Show
Boxborough, Massachusetts
Antiques dealer and show promoter Nan Gurley (1943-2016) raised her children in the antiques business and trained them well. At their October 23 antiques show at the Boxborough, Massachusetts, Regency Hotel, Rachel Gurley and Joshua Gurley worked as two halves of the same whole. Tim Libby, Rachel’s husband, makes ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Baltimore Show Returns
Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show, Baltimore, Maryland
The Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show returned to the Baltimore Convention Center for its 40th edition October 20-23. The 2020 and 2021 shows had been canceled because of COVID-19. During the pandemic the Convention Center had been transformed into a field hospital ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Record Price for 20th-Century Painting
Rachel Davis Fine Arts, Cleveland, Ohio
Photos courtesy Rachel Davis Fine Arts
There is nothing like setting a world record to make a great auction even better. Just ask Rachel Davis of Rachel Davis Fine Arts, Cleveland, Ohio. October 22 and 23 found the gallery hopping during its two-day fall event where ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Form and Color at Americana Sales
New England Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New England Auctions
Fred Giampietro’s New England Auctions featured the second part of the sale of the collections of Steve and Pat Center October 22 in its Branford, Connecticut, gallery. The 390-lot sale, with some additions, was noteworthy for the artistic eyes that had assembled ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Fall Virginia Pickers Show
Virginia Pickers Antiques & Collectables Show, Glen Allen, Virginia
The fall edition of the Virginia Pickers Antiques & Collectables Show was held October 21 and 22 at Gilmanor Farm in Glen Allen, Virginia. This was the ninth installment of the biannual event. Having begun as a seat-of-the-pants gathering in October 2018, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Greater Rochester Fall Antique Show Was Great
Henrietta, New York
The Greater Rochester Fall Antique Show was great in every sense of the word.
A great location for a new show, just one day, October 22, in a venue that decades ago hosted a series of antiques shows. Minett Hall, a 23,000-square-foot building that is part of the ROC ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, November 2022
The Seven Lively Arts, 1947, oil on canvas, each panel 89" x 41", on loan from the estate of Seymour H. Persky, installed at Madron Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
—Through December 16, 2022 —Chicago, Illinois
Palette and Palate is an exhibition celebrating Chicago, its artists, and Riccardo’s Restaurant and Gallery, one of the ... (Read More)
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