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On October 19 curator Inhee Moon of Englewood, New Jersey, was arrested on a charge of theft by deception. According to Bergen County prosecutor Mark Musella, on June 15 detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office Financial Crimes Unit received a complaint against Moon that accused her of unlawfully taking ... (Read More)
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Toomey & Co. Auctioneers, Oak Park, Illinois
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
You've heard of the Great War and the Thrilla in Manila, right? How about the dustup of Jenkins' Ear or the Battle at South Mountain? All were legendary conflicts, and we refer to them here because in late 2021, ... (Read More)
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The Haddam Historical Society has announced that the Connecticut Spring Antiques Show will be held in Hartford March 26 and 27, 2022, after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Debbie Turi will be the new show manager, taking over for Karen DiSaia, who has agreed to provide guidance ... (Read More)
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Daring Design: The Impact of Three Women on Wharton Esherick's Craft, an exhibition at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, opened early in September and continues through February 6, 2022. It demonstrates the importance of commissions from three women on the creative life in the early career of Wharton ... (Read More)
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Olde Hope, New York City
There must be something in the New York fall air. Weathervanes seem to be everywhere, including at Olde Hope's New York City gallery exhibition and sale and at the American Folk Art Museum's months-long, well-publicized exhibition American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds (open through January ... (Read More)
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Objects tell stories, and those stories keep evolving, certainly for Holly and Jeff Noordsy, antique bottle, glass, and earthenware dealers who live in Cornwall, Vermont.
Jeff and Holly Noordsy in their abode.
Their story begins at a film studies class during the January term at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. Jeff, then ... (Read More)
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Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
The star performer at Sotheby's annual fall American art sale in New York City on November 22 was The Glen by Maxfield Parrish. The artist transformed a New Hampshire forest of ancient trees and a brook beneath a turquoise sky into an iridescent wonderland. Between ... (Read More)
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Bonhams, Los Angeles
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Bonhams, Los Angeles, held a Native American art auction on November 22. Native American art department director Ingmars Lindbergs thought that with the exception of the baskets offered at the end of the auction, the rest of the sale was "fantastic, with good prices and lots ... (Read More)
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Ararity Auctions, Lorton, Virginia
Photos courtesy Ararity Auctions
This was our first visit to Ararity Auctions in Lorton, Virginia. The firm began as an estate clearance and removal company, but over time it began to receive consignments of increasingly high quality. Ararity's owner, Lori James, realized that the material that was coming ... (Read More)
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Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its semiannual premier Americana auction in three sessions November 18-20 at the firm's galleries in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. The first two sessions consisted of separately published cataloged collections: the American folk-art ... (Read More)
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