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Natural History, Maps, Books, and Furniture
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Arader Galleries, New York City Photos courtesy Arader Galleries More than 50 years ago, in his junior year at Yale University, Graham Arader began selling maps from his dorm room. Eventually he discovered the works of John James Audubon and Pierre-Joseph Redouté, and now he has the world’s largest inventory of rare ... (Read More)

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New Era for American Ceramics
by Karl Pass

Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland Photos courtesy Crocker Farm “This was our third-highest-grossing sale to date,” stated Mark Zipp of Crocker Farm following the family operation’s spring sale, which made $1,753,470 (including buyers’ premiums). There were 525 registered bidders for the spring auction. The absentee-only sale ran from March 27 through April 5 ... (Read More)

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Nor’easter Fails to Dampen Maine Show
by Victoria Hugo-Vidal

Scarborough High School Vintage and Antique Show & Sale, Scarborough, Maine ... (Read More)

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A Homegrown Show Keeps Growing
by Fran Kramer

Greater Rochester Spring Antique Show, Henrietta, New York After a few inches of white stuff on the ground the night before and after a earthquake hit another part of the state about 200 miles away but before the big total eclipse (which was covered by clouds), the Greater Rochester Spring Antique ... (Read More)

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Dave, Lanier, and Friends in Georgia
by Marty Steiner

Cagle Auction Company, Bogart, Georgia Photos courtesy Cagle Auction Company Located just outside of Athens, the town of Bogart, Georgia, at the base of the foothills of the Appalachians, is home to Cagle Auction Company. Rivers and creeks in this area of the Piedmont are rich with the clay deposits essential for ... (Read More)

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New Director of Bayou Bend
by M.A.D. Staff

Dr. Daniel Kurt Ackermann has been named director of the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, the house museum for American decorative arts of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH). Dr. Ackermann comes to Bayou Bend after a career of 16 years at Old Salem Museums & Gardens and the Museum ... (Read More)

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New Ownership of Fiddlers Antiques Show
by Don Johnson

The Fiddlers Antiques Show in Nashville, Tennessee, has been sold to Mark and Jill Mattingly of Chrisman, Illinois. The long-running event, which takes its name from the Fiddlers Inn motel where dealers sold from their rooms, had most recently been owned by Bill and Kay Puchstein since 2020. The change ... (Read More)

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Spring Sale of African American Art
by Julie Schlenger Adell

Swann Galleries, New York City Photos courtesy Swann Galleries For its April 4 sale of African American art, Swann Galleries offered 239 lots of paintings, watercolors, prints, photography, and sculpture and featured a special evening session called “Art for Life” of contemporary works sold to benefit the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation. The sale ... (Read More)

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Celebrating the Beauty of Life at Home
by M.A.D. Staff

A Book Review This book isn’t about antiques, though there are lots of antiques on almost every page, and it’s not about old houses, though most of the houses are old, and if they’re not old, they feel old in that lovely, comfortable way an old house feels. The owners of ... (Read More)

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Democracy in America
by M.A.D. Staff

Voices and Votes: Democracy in America, presented by the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street in cooperation with the Museum Association of New York (MANY), examines the nearly 250-year-old American experiment of a government “of, by and for the people” and how each generation continues to question how to form “a ... (Read More)
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