Search Stories
Now showing 20-30 of 9811 result(s)
(Issue Story)2024 Ceramics in America
A Book Review
It is hard to believe that Ceramics in America has been around since 2001 and that the current edition is the 23rd volume. (There was an interruption in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.)
Twelve of the 14 articles of varying length in the 2024 volume answer questions posed by ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)Two New Exhibitors for NHADA Annual Show
For 68 years, the annual show produced by the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA) has upheld the tradition of bringing fine quality antiques to New England. Two new exhibitors will join the show this year bringing the total to 59 exhibitors. The new exhibitors are Philip Mead of Mead ... (Read More)
|
(Issue Story)Hanging with Heather Karlie Vieira
Earning her chops as an antiques dealer took spunk, luck, and cocktail waitress experience. After 20-plus years, Heather Karlie Vieira, who with her two teenage daughters now calls Georgia home, has her foot in many doors.
Leaving her hometown of Philadelphia in 2002 for New York City to become an antiques ... (Read More)
|
(Show)Another Way: The High Point Antique & Design Center
High Point, North Carolina
High Point, North Carolina, was once the furniture capital of the world. Its first factory opened in 1888. Aided by cheap labor, an abundance of hard woods, and a tradition of cottage-industry furniture makers, by 1900 High Point and the surrounding Piedmont region had 44 furniture factories. ... (Read More)
|
(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)
|
(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)
|
(Fragment)Bloody Massacre Sells for $200,000
Paul Revere’s engraving The Bloody Massacre is one of the most familiar images related to the American Revolution. The event depicted, commonly referred to as the Boston Massacre, took place in the evening of March 5, 1770, and is considered one of the seminal moments that solidified Colonial resistance to ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)The Spirit of Spring: Modern American Art at Christie’s
Christie’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie’s
Female Modernists occupied some of the real estate in Christie’s 99-lot modern American art sale April 17 in New York City. The live auction, which attracted over two dozen attendees, totaled $14,228,382 and had an 84% sell-through rate. Christie’s reported that 18% of the buyers ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)Bierstadt’s Old Faithful Tops Decorative Arts Auction
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Auctions are unpredictable. Sales depend on estates that must be settled and downsizing by collectors who change their focus. In these times of economic and political chaos, consignors were cautious as they watched the middle market settle down to lower values and saw sectors once ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)Hilliard’s Eclectic Sale Lives Up to Its Name
Hilliard & Co., Madison, Virginia
Photos courtesy Hilliard & Co.
One of the realities of the post-COVID-19 online antiques auction world is the move toward targeted sales. We now see an increasing number of sales that consist of lots grouped so as to appeal to specific genres or collecting categories—Asian ceramics, 20th-century ... (Read More)
|
1 (800) 752-8521 • PO Box 1429 • Waldoboro, ME 04572
