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(Show)A Homegrown Show Keeps Growing
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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(Auction)Dave, Lanier, and Friends in Georgia
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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(Fragment)New Director of Bayou Bend
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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(Fragment)New Ownership of Fiddlers Antiques Show
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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(Auction)Spring Sale of African American Art
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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(Book Review)Celebrating the Beauty of Life at Home
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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(Fragment)Democracy in America
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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(Fragment)Rooms That Tell America’s Story
A Book Review
We often think of the many spectacular rooms of the White House when we imagine our leaders greeting those of other countries such as presidents and prime ministers, heads of states, secretaries of state, and diplomatic ministers. But before a visit to the White House, most foreign dignitaries ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, April 2024
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer’s premium when charged. We’re always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Philadelphia Show
The Philadelphia Show on the East Terrace of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, held during the last weekend in April (April 25-28), is where 41 dealers in American, European, and Asian works of art hope to find the next generation of collectors and to reconnect with the passionate antiquarians who ... (Read More)
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