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(Issue Story)Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and Web site ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.
Wearable Prints, 1760-1860: History, Materials, and Mechanics by Susan W. Greene (The Kent ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Maine Chapter of NAWCC
At the March meeting of the Maine Chapter of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC), Harrison, Maine, dealer Harry W. Hepburn III, president of NAWCC’s Chapter #89, presented the first Calvin Earl Morgan award to Cal Morgan, the award’s namesake and a sixth-generation clockmaker. Chapter #89 is ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, [email protected]
Antiquities, a collecting field in which I am always very happy to dig around, play a large part in this month’s selection, and, with the editor’s blessing, I have added to my London lots something from a recent New York City sale. A chicken-and-egg story also sees this ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism
A Book Review
Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism
Constance Kimmerle, editor, with essays by Glenn Adamson, Edward S. Cooke Jr., Helen W. Drutt English, Constance Kimmerle, Robert Slifkin, and Gregory Wittkopp
James A. Michener Art Museum and Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2014, 216 pages, hardbound, $50 plus S/H from the James A. ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Count the Ways
Auction Law & Ethics
“If you don’t have integrity, you have nothing. You can’t buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.”
— Henry Kravis, cofounder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and one of ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)America's First Family of Clockmakers
A Book Review
Stretch: America’s First Family of Clockmakers
by Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann III
The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum and Hohmann Holdings LLC, 2013, 376 pp., hardbound, $75 plus S/H from the Winterthur bookstore, (www.winterthurstore.com), (302) 888-4707, or 1-800-448-3883, ext. 4707; or from ACC Distribution, (www.accdistribution.com) or ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Delaware Art Museum Announces Proposed Sales of Paintings to Pay Debt
At its March meeting, the board of trustees of the Delaware Art Museum voted to sell up to four works of art from its collection to raise $30 million to pay off a $19.8 million construction debt for the institution’s expansion a decade ago and to provide for operating costs. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Who are the Collectors and Where are They?
Editorial
Who is the typical collector? An educated man, aged 40-69, childless, and who is self-employed or an entrepreneur.
That’s the finding of “Collecting in the Digital Age,” an international survey released by art insurer AXA ART. More than three-quarters (76%) of the 972 respondents were male, 73% were aged 40-69, and ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Pep Up Your Tablet
Antique aircraft slideshow page as displayed on a television set by a tablet computer using an HDMI cable and adapter.
Computer Column #306
John P. Reid, [email protected]
Tablet computers are everywhere these days. Here are four ways you can pep up yours.
Stylus
One nice thing about moving from a smartphone to a tablet computer ... (Read More)
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