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(Feature)Computer Column #222: Writing, Cataloging, and Listening
by John P. Reid, [email protected]
A change in Microsoft Word, simple software for collectors, new features of on-line antiques newsletters, and a really simple word processor are the topics this month.
-New Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word dominates the personal computer word processor market. Its file format has been the de facto standard for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Goodbye Peter's Party Complex, Hello Auction Gallery
by Fran Kramer
Just 18 hours after being on the world's longest flight, from Singapore to Newark, New Jersey, in 18 hours, I joined a full house of other auction-goers on April 7 in Leicester, New York, for Samuel Cottone's last major sale at Peter's Party Complex.
Others had traveled from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings, Furniture, and Decorative Arts
by Don Johnson
There was something different about Cowan's sale of furniture, paintings, and decorative arts, held on February 17 in Cincinnati, Ohio. With a gross of more than $974,000, the auction looked good on paper, but the event had a certain lackluster feel.
C. Wesley Cowan, the company's president and principal ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Reaching Out
Finding new collectors is expected to be a major push in the industry in the coming months. In early May, a group of around 30 movers and shakers in the market got together in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, to brainstorm on ways to attract new blood to what is perceived to be ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Ann Arbor Antiques Market Changes Management
by Beth Pulsipher
The Ann Arbor (Michigan) Antiques Market is now under new management. Beginning its 39th season, the show had been managed by longtime dealers Nancy and Woody Straub for the past eight years. In the fall of 2006, show owner Tom Monaghan gifted the show's proceeds to the Father ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Great American Cover Up
The exhibition The Great Cover Up: American Rugs on Beds, Tables, and Floors, organized by Lee Kogan, curator of special exhibitions and public programs, will be on view at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City from June 5 to September 9. This is the museum's first presentation ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Antiques in a Cow Pasture: New Sponsor, Fuel Discount
Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that builds simple, decent, affordable housing in partnership with people in need, is the new sponsor of Barn Star Productions' Antiques in a Cow Pasture antiques show in Salisbury, Connecticut, on September 9.
Show promoter Frank Gaglio said, "Habitat for Humanity... has a solid foothold ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Cyclorama Sold
The Battle of Gettysburg cyclorama, a monumental (22' x 376') early 1880's oil painting by Paul Dominique Philippoteaux and nearly identical to the one displayed at the Gettysburg National Military Park, has been acquired by a group of North Carolina investors.
According to a press release, Larry D. Laster, a Winston-Salem, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Jussel Goes to Freeman's
Chris Jussel has been named head of the decorative arts departments at Freeman's in Philadelphia, according to Beau Freeman, chairman, and Paul Roberts, president.
"I will be overseeing and assisting department heads in Americana, English and Continental furniture, twentieth century, and Asian arts," said Jussel in a phone interview. "It is ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Fine Print: Kane Reports a Discovery
Patricia Kane, curator of American decorative arts at Yale University Art Gallery, reports in the May issue of The Magazine Antiques on the progress of Yale University's ongoing project to record Rhode Island furniture makers and their products created between 1636 and 1800. She has added the name Ichabod Cole ... (Read More)
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