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(Fragment)The Met’s Record Year
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City announced on July 5 that it welcomed more than 7.35 million visitors to its three locations—The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Cloisters, and The Met Breuer—in the fiscal year that ended on June 30. It is the highest fiscal year attendance ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)New World, New Problems
The Young Collector
Meeting new people is hard. It can be hard to figure out what to say, how to get a conversation started, or how to keep a conversation going. There are always those icebreaker routines where you are supposed to describe what you did on vacation or what the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Kris and Paul Casucci, Walker Homestead, Brookfield, Massachusetts
In the Trade
Kris and Paul Casucci entered the antiques business at the beginning of the Great Recession after losing their jobs, so they harbor no nostalgic memories of how much fun the business was for many of us during the second half of the 20th century. “It was the worst ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, July 2018
Three-Star Bid Secures Very First Michelin Guide
Now recognised around much of the world as an indispensible guide to fine dining and wining, the Guide Michelin was first published in 1900 and was at the time aimed at a very different market. In an extraordinarily ambitious promotion by the famous French ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 56th Lititz Show
Lititz Antiques Show, Lititz, Pennsylvania
“It’s my first time here, and I will be back,” said Jan Welshans as she headed to the parking lot. “Next year I will bring the pickup truck. We drove the car, so I could only buy smalls this time.” She said she had made three ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Revolution Lives On in Searsport
DownEast Auctions, Searsport, Maine
“This will be the last sale we conduct in this building,” Mark Bradstreet announced at the beginning of his DownEast Auctions offering on June 30 in Searsport, Maine. DownEast Auctions will be moving into newer and improved facilities, he promised. This day’s sale was the remainder of ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Classical Principles for Modern Design
A Book Review
New York decorator and cheerleader for the Classical style Thomas Jayne calls Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman Jr.’s The Decoration of Houses the most important decorating book ever written. He organized his new book according to the chapters in The Decoration of Houses, beginning with “The Historical Tradition,” ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)AAMD Sanctions Two Museums
Two museums—the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and the La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—are facing sanctions imposed by the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), following sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s.
The sanctions, announced on May 25, follow “the decision made by each institution to use the proceeds from recent ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Labels, Computer Column #354
Computer Column #354
Labels
John P. Reid, [email protected]
It has been seven years (column #267 for April 2011) since we covered software for printing labels. Antiquers might print labels for items in a collection or a dealer’s inventory. Mailing labels are needed for a collectors club newsletter, a dealer’s sale announcement, or a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dinner Wear
Mary-Ann Wood creates jewelry from broken antique cups, plates, and saucers, crafting “designs cut from these fractured unfortunates” and turning them into unique costume jewelry pieces, mostly necklaces, earrings, lariats, and brooches.
Wood has been making jewelry out of dinnerware for almost 20 years at her business, DinnerWear Jewelry, located in ... (Read More)
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