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(Show)The 2016 Brandywine Show
Brandywine River Museum of Art Antiques Show, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
The Brandywine River Museum of Art Antiques Show is a Memorial Day weekend tradition as firmly rooted as putting out American flags. Dealers at the 45th annual show, held May 27-30, brought mostly Americana and antiques from Europe or Asia that ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dunning Still Life Tops Two-Day Sale
William A. Smith, Inc., Plainfield, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy William A. Smith, Inc.
The William A. Smith auction gallery in Plainfield, New Hampshire, was packed with customers for the two-day Memorial Day weekend antiques auction on May 29 and 30. William G. Smith has been steadfast in his refusal to use Internet ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Three-Day Sale in May
John McInnis Auctioneers, Amesbury, Massachusetts
With three days and over 1300 lots, John McInnis Auctioneers’ Memorial Day weekend (May 28-30) auction in the Amesbury, Massa-chusetts, gallery had something for everyone and then some. Prices were up, down, and all over the place.
Day one was given over to 153 lots of timepieces ... (Read More)
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(Show)Randolph Street Market Festival: Opening Weekend 2016
Chicago, Illinois
To the annals of great impresarios through history, add Sally Schwartz, the founder and driving force behind and still major-domo of the Randolph Street Market Festival in Chicago’s West Loop. Flo Ziegfeld and Sol Hurok, eat your hearts out!
For the May 28 and 29 opening of the seasonal outdoor ... (Read More)
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(Show)Thumbs-up at Rhinebeck Show
Antiques at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck, New York
It was thumbs-up for the quality, presentation, variety, and dealer knowledge at Barn Star Productions’ twice-a-year Antiques at Rhinebeck show at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, New York, a historic town along the Hudson River, south of Albany and north of Manhattan, on May ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Buttocks Leads to Citation, Citation Leads to Lawsuit
A painting of a woman with bare buttocks by contemporary artist Tom Dash (b. 1975) resulted in the Borghi Fine Art Gallery in Englewood, New Jersey, receiving a written complaint, alleging a violation of the city’s nudity code.
Now the city is the subject of a federal lawsuit filed by the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)March Auction Features Variety and Value
Laughlin Auctions, Inc., Edinburg, Virginia
Photos courtesy Laughlin Auctions, Inc.
Laughlin Auctions, Inc. was founded in 1986 by three brothers, Hoyle, John, and Duane Laughlin, and its first sale was held over that year’s Memorial Day weekend. Each year since, the firm has held an annual spring auction, and this year’s, the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Eldred's Opens Satellite Office in Connecticut
The Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc. opened a new satellite office at 5 Roosevelt Avenue in Mystic, Connecticut, on May 9. The new office will be open Tuesdays and Wednesdays and by appointment for antiques and fine art appraisal and consignment services.
“This is an ideal location to service our existing ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Folk Fest 2016 Canceled
The 2016 Folk Fest, a folk art and Outsider art show in Atlanta set for August, has been canceled because of the loss of the lease by the operator of the exhibit hall that was home to the show. The sudden announcement caught many by surprise.
This decision was made shortly ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Books Received, June 2016
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or online orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or a mail-order house is the place to look.
Some Kind of Good by Mark Clay Grove (Spitfire Publishing, LLC, 2015, ... (Read More)
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