Anatomy Lesson: Dealers, Collectors and the Birth of the Market     An important exhibition and several new books explore the history of buying, selling and showing art and antiques.   Read More...

Anatomy Lesson: Sister Wendy Beckett's Story of Painting Measures Up     No prude, Beckett dives right into the gruesome as well as the sensual, unafraid to tackle any of humanity's masterpieces.   Read More...

Anatomy Lesson: A One-Two Punch Rocks Yahoo!     A French court's decision leads to a drop in shares.   Read More...

Anatomy Lesson: FBI Provides Update in Gardner Art Heist Case     Positive news that most artworks sustained limited damage was released.   Read More...

The Gallery: A Special Section     Our semi-annual gallery showcase.   Read More...

Anatomy Lesson: Viewing the Online Landscape with AuctionWatch.com's Jeff Smith     Our look at the industry continues with Part Two - the Internet may have revolutionized the auction industry as a whole, but not all categories have been lifted by the e-commerce tide.   Read More...

Anatomy Lesson: Viewing the Online Landscape with AuctionWatch.com's Jeff Smith     From his position Smith has observed the aftereffects of a volcanic explosion.   Read More...

Anatomy Lesson: The End of Sothebys.amazon.com May Mean a New Beginning for Both Sites     Less than a year after its debut, the Web site will close shop in the next month and create a consolidated partnership, fusing sothebys.com and sothebys.amazon.com.    Read More...

Anatomy Lesson: And the Survey Says...     From the looks of customer satisfaction surveys, a lot of you couldn't care less about online auction sites.   Read More...

Anatomy Lesson: Case Closed for Malcolm X's Datebook     Online bidders take note - If a piece appears to be too good to be true, it may be.   Read More...

Anatomy Lesson: AntiquesAmerica.com Reveals Its Business Plan     We continue with our look at this innovative Web site.   Read More...

Anatomy Lesson: AntiquesAmerica.com Steers a Clearer Course     Perceptions of the company's goals, operational plan, and practices had been in a state of flux as the staff worked through layers of the creative process.   Read More...

Anatomy Lesson: Online Insurance     Auction sites still hesitate to provide services for wary consumers.   Read More...

Anatomy Lesson: Hey Big Spender     Watch your wallet - a new British antiques Web site wants your business.   Read More...

Anatomy Lesson: Shill Bidding and the Online Auction Industry     Sites that focus exclusively on consigning fine art have moved to distance themselves from the two-party system embodied by eBay.   Read More...

Anatomy Lesson: So Much to Surf, So Little Time     Our look at Internet 'auction management' continues.   Read More...

Anatomy Lesson: So Much to Surf, So Little Time     A look at 'auction management' on the Internet.   Read More...

Anatomy Lesson: Appraisals in Cyberspace     They're fast, but are they accurate?   Read More...

Anatomy Lesson: A Former Curator Looks at the Preservers of the Scrimshaw Tradition     With the demise of the American whaling industry in the early Twentieth Century, scrimshaw should have come to an end as an art form. Not so.   Read More...

Anatomy Lesson: A Scrimshaw Collectors Weekend      Kendall Whaling Museum forensics technician Don Ridley reported several investigations that extended participants' knowledge of antique scrimshaw.   Read More...

Anatomy Lesson: GoAntiques.com Will Make a Go of It with Dealers     BATON ROUGE, LA. If mention of a new .com on the Internet scene makes you yawn, perhaps one that caters to dealers will grab your interest.   Read More...

Cover Stories

Santa Claus: A Native New Yorker     The spirit of Christmas is universal, but the embodiment of that perennially popular Yuletide figure has a history that began - of all places - in the Big Apple.   Read More...

Astounding and Confounding: The Art of the Puzzle     The relationship between creator and solver and the way in which puzzles are used for education and amusement are important themes of this Katonah Museum of Art show.   Read More...

A Revitalized Hillwood Museum and Gardens Reopens     Marjorie Merriweather Post's estate now provides a superior showcase for its world-class collections, including an improved museum-quality environment, renewed plantings and restored sculpture in the surrounding gardens, and enhanced public facilities.   Read More...

Dangerous Curves: The Art of the Guitar     The instruments on display at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts demonstrate both the mainstream and branch developments of the guitar.   Read More...

Southern Faces     More than 20 portraits help us understand the people depicted both as individuals and as representatives of their society and the region in which they lived.   Read More...

The Impressionists at Argenteuil     Just when it seems that every conceivable facet of the enormously popular French Impressionists has been explored, a new aspect surfaces.   Read More...

Cy Nelson: An Engagement with Folk Art     Through January 7, Nelson's gifts to the Museum of American Folk Art are showcased in 60 prime examples reflecting the collector's refined taste in paint-decorated furniture, folk paintings, and sculpture.   Read More...

Keeping Time: Clockmaking in Concord     This groundbreaking show at the Concord Museum is the first major exhibition to reflect on a significant reinterpretation of New England clockmaking by focusing on one Federal-era craft community.    Read More...

Little Village of the Dead: The Ancient Burying Ground     Historic graveyards peak in popularity around Halloween, but they are far more than a source of seasonal shivers up the spine. Open-air museums of intriguing history and evocative art, old burying grounds are rewarding places to visit anytime.   Read More...

A Tribute to Zeke Liverant     Liverant, who died on October 8, embodied the best contradictions of the antiques business.   Read More...

The Art of Frank W. Benson, American Impressionist     At the Peabody Essex Museum visitors will enjoy a beautiful exhibit and gain a broader and deeper appreciation for the artist's work.    Read More...

"Christina's World" and "On Island" Highlight Season at Farnsworth Art Museum     This spectacular lineup of shows is highlighted by the masterpiece of Andrew Wyeth's cycle of works that immortalized Christina Olson.   Read More...

Restoring the Thomas Bailey Aldrich House     The Stawbery Banke Museum might present the only such institution in America that features a year 2000 restoration of a 1797 home to depict its appearance in 1850, as perceived by Colonial Revival Movement.    Read More...

Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825 to 1861     The Metropolitan explores the visual arts in America during this dynamic period and chronicles New York's ascendancy to the position of the nation's primary art center and its capital of culture.   Read More...

Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825 to 1861     The Metropolitan explores the visual arts in America during this dynamic period and chronicles New York's ascendancy to the position of the nation's primary art center and its capital of culture.   Read More...

Seen and Received     An exhibit highlighting Hancock Shaker Village's own collection of gift drawings, which has not been seen as a whole in over a decade. With fewer than 200 gift drawings extant in public and private collections throughout the world, the assemblage is notable for 25 drawings of exceptional quality, range, and scale.    Read More...

N.C. Wyeth: Precious Time     Through October 15, the Portland Museum of Art estimates that 80,000 to 100,000 pairs of eyes will be musing over the many canvases and selected drawings displayed in this exhibit.   Read More...

Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures     This exhibition, currently on view in Massachusetts, offers viewers a rich, Orien-talist visual feast and significant intellectual rewards.   Read More...

Adventures with Old Houses     What would it be like to sit down for dinner with Richard Hampton Jenrette, the investment guru who helped found Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in 1960? Delightful, in a word.   Read More...

Chardin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art     On view through September 3, this is the first New York exhibition devoted to the artist's work and the first in this country since 1979.   Read More...

Van Gogh: Face to Face     The exhibit puts a fresh face on Vincent van Gogh's portraiture and compels visitors to evaluate his impact across modern works of this genre.   Read More...

William Merritt Chase's Modern American Landscapes     An "exquisite" traveling exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.   Read More...

Calder In Connecticut     The show offers the kind of delightful visual experience one would hope for in a Calder exhibition. Letters and photographs help place the works within their Connecticut contexts.   Read More...

REMEMBERING HAROLD SACK     NEW YORK CITY Last week the antiques community lost the nearest thing it had to a father. Harold Sack, who died on July 8 at 89, brought the business up, from its infancy in the past century to its imposing stature today.    Read More...

Lancaster County Quilting Traditions     LANCASTER, PA. Lancaster County Quilting Traditions, featuring 50 quilts shown in two cycles and many other related textiles, tools, and period photographs of makers, is on view at the Heritage Center Museum through December 30.   Read More...

Auction Watch

Table with No Takers Two Years Ago Reaps $181,000 at Geneva, N.Y. Auction     Although the table had been pictured in an auction flyer, on Hessney's Web site, and advertised in area newspapers, few who previewed the sale recognized its form.   Read More...

Ruhlmann and Tiffany Rule Twentieth Century Design at Christie's     The “Danner Memorial Window," created in 1913 and a prime example of Tiffany's glass, set a world auction record for a Tiffany window at $1,986,000.   Read More...

New Record Price for an Old Enigma Set in Germany     A 1923 creation of Arthur Scherbius, Berlin, the Enigma juggled 22 billion different code combinations and is the ancestor of the personal computer.    Read More...

‘Secret' Patton Letter Garners $10,350 in La Jolla     The 1943 missive signed by Patton gave his thoughts on an new armored division and was the event's top lot.   Read More...

Venerable 'Old Lady' Gains a New Record for Rembrandt     Christie's December 13 auction of Old Master pictures realized $81.1 million, the highest ever total for a sale in this category.   Read More...

Tramp Art Highlights Doyle Americana Offerings     Mistakenly considered only the work of itinerants, tramp art creations were actually produced in many homes as a hobby.    Read More...

George Grosz Drawing Tops Modern and Contemporary Works at Artnet.com     Before emigrating to the United States in 1933, Grosz “was frequently prosecuted for insulting public morals and for blasphemy."   Read More...

Doorknob No Dog for Rhode Island Internet Auction     A world record price for a single doorknob was set at Web Wilson's Antique Hardware sale when a rare “Doggie" example fetched $7,725.   Read More...

Sports and Entertainment Memorabilia Reap $1.7 Million Online     Leland's chairman and founder called the event a “major success." Bidding was entirely by Internet, phone and fax, and more than 80 percent of the lots sold.   Read More...

Amati Violin Plays to $108,100 at Boston Musical Instruments Sale     Fashioned in the age of the Baroque, Amati's creations are still unsurpassed in beauty and workmanship, with a sound of pure gold.   Read More...

Bid of $40,700 a Drop in the Bucket for Pook & Pook Top Lot     An example similar to the rare tole piece can be seen in "The Pennsylvania German Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art."   Read More...

At Auction, Peanuts Characters Are Not Just Kids' Stuff     Snoopy sculptures from Saint Paul's community-wide public art celebration totaled $238,150, a figure that was $47,150 over Sotheby's high estimate.   Read More...

Sweeping Vistas, Historical Visions Reach $74 Million in New York     Fall sales of American art concluded last week at the city's three major auction houses.   Read More...

Geneva Auction of Wristwatches Reaches $6.7 Million     Sixty-three clients registered to bid online via Antiquorum Online for a total of $488,072; altogether 1,959 watch enthusiasts viewed the live broadcast via the Internet.   Read More...

Pennsylvania Items Bring Solid Prices at Hesse     More than 450 lots sold consisted of treenware, decorated toleware, chalkware, redware, wrought iron, glass, and fraktur.   Read More...

Salamander Paperweight Scurries to $154,000 in Santa Cruz     With final sales reaching well over $500,000, Selman's auction made the argument that what is often maligned as desk decoration is revered by many as artwork.    Read More...

Withington's 2,350th Event Attracts a Full House of Doll Enthusiasts     Prices were extremely strong in the area of French and German dolls, automas, chinas and collectible dolls of the ‘40s and ‘50s.   Read More...

Important Revolutionary War Diary Fetches $70,400     “The author recorded official dispatches as well as personal observances…[that] range from private poetry to reports on dining with General Washington," auctioneer John McInnis told the press.   Read More...

Sideboard and Punch Bowl Lead New England Holiday Sales     A Federal sideboard sold for $17,600 at the annual Thanksgiving auction conducted by William Smith.   Read More...

Virginia Curlew Calls the High Note at Maryland Decoy Auction     Guyette and Schmidt's two-day gross was $1,203,000, with 17 items selling for more than $10,000.   Read More...

A Little of This, a Little of That Makes for Online Bargains     Buyers must have been giddy at what they found in the furniture and carpet categories, as well as the good buys on some of the items touted in pre-sale press.   Read More...

Records Made to be Broken     How do you get ahead when you're number three? If you're the number-three auction house, you put your lots on sale.   Read More...

New York Collector Pays Third Highest Price for Shaker Furniture     The cupboard over a double chest of drawers sold for $212,750 at Willis Henry Auctions.   Read More...

Americana Material Highlights Online Offering of Books, Maps and Prints     The top lot was Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America," which fetched $13,800.   Read More...

Couture and Accessories Find Receptive Buyers at Doyle New York     The sale featured one of the world's largest known collections, and totals climbed to nearly $2 million.   Read More...

Colorful Socialite's Collection Packs Washington Gallery     Furnishings from the famed studio house of Alice Pike Barney were auctioned at Weschler's to a standing-room-only audience of both serious bidders and curiosity seekers.   Read More...

The 'Rosetta Stone' of New Hampshire Federal Furniture Highlights Northeast Event     The desk/bookcase, originally belonging to Jacob Wendell of Portsmouth, N.H., sold for $332,500.   Read More...

CRN Sells ‘Top-of-the-Line' Regency Chairs     “These are wonderful, exciting chairs," Nordblom commented, “from about 1810, with a well-preserved old surface."   Read More...

Cutting-Edge Opportunities     In a combined act of charitable giving and exposure for its services, artnet.com sponsored its sixth online benefit auction, on behalf of Independent Curators International, in October.   Read More...

Rare Sylvanus Map Travels to $44,550 at Arizona Auction     Old World's rare antique maps, atlases, globes and related material included 498 lots, of which more than 90 percent sold.   Read More...

Washington Letter Leads 1,374-Lot EAHA Auction     Early American History's most recent mail bid event consisted of 1,374 lots of autographs, coins, currency and Americana.    Read More...

Asia Week Auction in Hong Kong Brings Five World Records     The pieces were consigned from one collection owned by a private trust, an assemblage that is considered to be the one of the most valuable gatherings of Chinese art to have ever appeared at auction.   Read More...

Americana Here, There and Even Online     Americana made its annual auction appearance in New York, Boston and online, with several surprising results.    Read More...

Babe Ruth Bargain Sold for Charity     Ruth's last signed contract, his 1935 agreement to play for the Boston Braves, brought $165,100 on eBay in a a transaction that benefited the City of Hope Cancer Center in Los Angeles.   Read More...

Battle of Little Bighorn Items Top Julia Firearms Event     A Custer battlefield specimen forensically proven to have been fired at the battle was the winning lot.   Read More...

Tiffany Creation Leads All-Cane Auction     A gross of $350,644 resulted in the Tradewind's second sale of the year to exceed $350,000 and it did so with 11 less lots than the first.    Read More...

Miniature Sinumbra Lamp Nets Giant Price from Phone Bidder     The price realized on the rare lamp, which featured a black amethyst base, surprised even the auctioneer.   Read More...

Rare Belter Double Chair is Won by the Trade in New Jersey     Owned by the same family for three generations, the chair sold at a rural country auction for $32,000.   Read More...

Pop Singer Buys John Lennon's Piano at the Hard Rock Cafe     A telephone bid of $2.1 million from George Michael won the instrument during an online sale.   Read More...

Rare John Gaines Chairs Go to the Trade for $150,000 in New Hampshire     The most dramatic bidding escalation took place between a dealer and a private buyer, each determined to win the set.   Read More...

Treasures of the Hoi An Hoard     A vast collection of rare, centuries-old Vietnamese ceramics offered October 11 and 12 in this Butterfields' sale drew buyers from museums, the trade and the Vietnamese community - and a mixed response.   Read More...

New Maritime Highs Achieved at America's Oldest Auction House     Following four preview sessions in Philadelphia, a total of 405 bidding paddles were issued for the 337 lots offered. A gross of $646,400 was realized against an early estimate of $405,000.   Read More...

Newly Discovered Michelangelo Drawing to be Sold at Auction     The work was found at Castle Howard in Yorkshire, England. Entitled “Mourning Woman," it is valued at $9/12 million.   Read More...

Chicago Twentieth Century Design Sale Reaches over $500,000     Warren McArthur's “Tete-a-Tete," designed in 1932, is one of the finest examples of the machine-age aesthetic in American furniture design. A definite highlight of the sale, this anodized aluminum piece fetched $28,000.   Read More...

Thousands of Bidders Participate Online for James Cagney Property     Of the 155 lots in the sale, 125 received competition from Internet bidders and 39 were sold to Internet buyers. The sale grossed $480,671 against a pre-sale estimate of $138,800 to $199,450.   Read More...

Sculpture Headed for Scrap Heap Instead Brings $16,100 in Washington, D.C.     The consignor wisely rescued the Edward McCartan bronze from an inglorious fate, transporting “Fountain Figure of a Nymph Drinking From a Shell" to Weschler's and an ensuing bidding war.   Read More...

Phone Bidder Sees the Light through Tiffany “Wisteria" Windows at New Jersey Auction     At noon all phones were occupied with eager bidders who vied for the three complementary Louis C. Tiffany signed creations.   Read More...

A Sum of $222,500 Sews up a Shaker Sewing Cabinet     A phone bidder won a diminutive lot, which was the featured item in the auction of the Jim and Nola Stokes collection.   Read More...

Small Heade Fetches Big Bucks in Pennsylvania     The landscape depicted a sunset on the marshes and a letter of authenticity from Theodore Stebbins dated the work to 1860-61.   Read More...

A Consignor Moves on with His ‘Kinetic' Collection     Duchamp's 1963 masterpiece “La Boite en Valise" headed the assemblage of 49 prints by and books by and about the Dadaist artist in ewolf's auction. With an estimated price of $40/60,000, it sold for $55,200.   Read More...

Portrait by Itinerate American Artist Comes Home to $27,500 at Ohio Sale     The artist - a woman - earned a meager living from town to town in New England during the early Nineteenth Century.   Read More...

Beginners and Experts Alike Vie for Picasso Creations on the Internet     As artnet's marketing manager put it, “One man asked how a work could be an original print if it was from an edition of 500."   Read More...

Pattern Glass Records Shattered in Virginia     The most excitement of the day occurred when a rare Sandwich vine goblet with gilt highlights eclipsed its previous record of $14,500.    Read More...

Rare Copy of Beauty and The Beast Offered at Pacific Book     This first edition of Charles Lamb's work was dated circa 1811 and included eight hand-colored stipple-engraved plates.   Read More...

Asia Week Offerings Tempt a Guarded Buying Crowd     "Collectors were more cautious with moderately priced pieces," said Martin Lorber, Doyle New York's Asian Art Specialist. "Middle ground bidding was practically non-existent."   Read More...

Sotheby's London Event Records World Record Prices for Cameras     The third in a trio of cameras from a private collection, an extraordinary contraption by Gaumont and Demeny - one of fewer than 10 known to exist - sold for a staggering $137,250.   Read More...

Rare Apache Basket Sees a 7,500 Percent Return in Winter Associates' Sale     The basket's large size and color variety added to its rarity. The lot was accompanied by its original receipt, dated 1913.   Read More...

Tasha Tudor Books at Auction: Not Kids' Stuff Anymore     Waverly offered many books containing original sketches and inscriptions by Tasha Tudor and the results made collectors sit up and take notice.   Read More...

Online Auction Produces New Contemporary Glass Records     The sale resulted an astounding price for William Morris' “Canopic Jar, Fallow Deer," created in 1994: the winning bidder paid $150,650 with premium.   Read More...

New High for ‘Mystical' Marblehead Achieved at Premier Rago/Cohen/Fontaine Event     The price, according to auctioneer David Rago, also establishes it as the third highest amount ever paid at auction for a piece of art pottery.   Read More...

Historically Important Daguerreotype Sells for $19,250      The image depicted a young man working on a side-armature sewing machine with tools resting around the machine base.   Read More...

Philadelphia Armchair Highlights Connecticut Auction     Onlookers witnessed an animated bidding skirmish, which tapered down to one floor and one phone hopeful, culminating in the sale of the $30,000 chair to the phone bidder.   Read More...

Recent Web Sales Prove Image Is Everything     Icon used to mean an object of religious devotion. But the Baby Boom generation's feverish nostalgia for their idealized youth means that the term now invokes Campbell's soup rather than the Virgin Mary.   Read More...

Internet Auction Trends     Sitting pretty with the Eighteenth Century French armchair.   Read More...

New York Sideboard Leads Maine Auction     A selection of paintings from more than 100 listed artists, high-style and country furniture, and an assortment of objects dating from three centuries were offered; the event tallied a final gross of over $1.6 million.   Read More...

Antique Banks from Single-Owner Collection Sold in New Jersey     Offered was a variety of popular forms and figural banks, as well as several unusual and hard to find items, which were auctioned in 281 lots.   Read More...

All's Well that Ends Well in Controversial Sale of Rare Fossil     In question was the propriety of Butterfields' offering of the seven-inch-long Icarosaurus siefkeri at auction in San Francisco and Los Angeles - and, for the first time, online.   Read More...

Phillips' First Internet Event Reaps $1.95 Million     For the first time in Scotland, live cyberspace bidding was available to buyers via the Auction Channel's NetBidLive.    Read More...

Prices for British Puppets Are Nothing to Spit at     Former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was the clear winner in the bidding stakes, topping the poll at $16,775, with 39 bids placed on her puppet - in patronizing pose.   Read More...

Rare Bradstreet Portrait Brings $40,000 in Upstate New York Auction     The only extant image of this famous French and Indian War general was pur-chased by the trade.   Read More...

Soup's On!     A Warhol-like sign is the hottest item at Julia's latest toy and advertising sale.   Read More...

More than 1,000 Lots of American Art Pottery Offered by Treadway     This Treadway Gallery event represented such names as Roseville, Weller, Fulper, and Hull.   Read More...

The Mouse Highlights American Dream Auction     A “bold" bargain might best describe Mary Hanley's high bid to win a limited edition print of Andy Warhol's Mickey Mouse for $22,000 in artnet.com's recent American Dream auction.   Read More...

The Priciest Maritime Auction Ever     A China Trade painting led the New Hampshire sale at $184,000 with premium, won by a phone bidder.   Read More...

Eddie Shore Estate Sets Hockey Memorabilia Record     Bidding was lively at Stanton Auctions' latest event in Hampden, Mass.   Read More...

Ward Pintail Flies to $74,500 at Guyette & Schmidt     A large consignment of Illinois River decoys brought high prices, a growing trend toward a national decoy market instead of a regional one.   Read More...

Early American Furniture Offered in Ohio Sale     Hamblin-attributed portraits lead event.   Read More...

Mission and French Creations Attract Bidder Attention in Connecticut     With more than 600 registered bidders - some flying in especially for the event from as far away as England and California - expectations ran high.   Read More...

Phenomenal Prices Achieved for Americana and the Weld Collection     A Philadelphia tea table sold for $409,500 at Skinner against an estimate of $10,000 to $15,000. The winning bidder was William Samaha of G.W. Samaha, Milan, Ohio.    Read More...

Stamps from Boston to Beverly Hills     Kelleher and Superior enjoy bidding bonanzas for rare postage.   Read More...

Rare Etched Sword Brings $19,550 at Cape Cod Sporting Auction     The piece was etched with the dates of many battles, including Roanoke Island in February of 1862.   Read More...

Old Master Headlines North Carolina Sale     The Seventeenth Century Italian oil on canvas possibly hailed from the circle of Pier Francesco Cittidini of Milan, 1616-1681.   Read More...

Mourning Images Make for Happy Bidders in New Jersey     An important group of memorials included a hand-drawn and colored 1784 image depicting trees and urns.   Read More...

Checkers, Anyone? Gameboards Reach a Record     Auctioneer Ron Bourgeault sold, non-stop and in under four hours, the Virginai Ramsey-Pope Cave Americana Collection, which realized a total of $2,454,870.   Read More...

Barridoff Fine Art Sale Grosses $2.5 Million     A Norman Rockwell work, entitled "Pioneer of the Air," attracted substantial attention in the trade and the media.   Read More...

Ship Portrait Sails to Top Slot at Cyr's     The successful bidder was dealer James Glazer of Villanova, Pa.   Read More...

Rare Meissen Creation Heads $485,000 Beer Stein Sale in Houston     Antique steins continue to attract serious interest from buyers around the country and in Europe.   Read More...

Five Dollar Lamp Fetches $41,800 from Maine Auctioneer     As the story goes - one sensational enough to hit the Associated Press wire - the consignors purchased the lamp years ago at a church sale.   Read More...

Vermont 'Salon-Style' Auction Meets with Success      The starring lot of the day was a Bahktiari rug which was privately purchased for $17,600.    Read More...

Online Sale Devoted to Pop Art Totals $221,650     In its first on-line auction sale devoted to Pop Art, sothebys.com found the public's interest in the artistic style has far from waned.   Read More...

Eighteenth Century Furniture Tops Washington, D.C. Sale     The star lot, a cherry inlaid New England secretary bookcase, circa 1790, realized $24,150.    Read More...

On-Site Auction Cleans Metromedia Mogul's Attic      John Kluge's cast-offs mean great finds for attendees.   Read More...

Anonymous Collector Pays $49,306 for Rare Book in New Hampshire     In 1938, as a present to his secretary's niece, Louis B. Mayer had the edition signed by the cast of the "Wizard of Oz."   Read More...

Oil on Canvas Leads California Advertising Auction     The King's Quickshot gun powder original oil on canvas, circa 1890, headed the sale at $10,010.   Read More...

Record Golfing Memorabilia Auction     A rare "feathery" ball was purchased by the Valderama Golf Club in Spain for $42,779.   Read More...

Miniature Chest Brings Mammoth Price in Bedford, N.Y.     Four floor bidders and one phone participant vied for the box, which packed a pricey punch for its diminutive size at $195,500.   Read More...

Shaker Table Tops Massachusetts Auction     The lot, consigned from the Jean Lund estate, bore a label saying that it had been featured on frontispiece of "The Magazine Antiques" in December 1934.   Read More...

Honus Wagner Card Breaks Record in Internet Auction     Brian Seigel, a private collector in California, placed the winning bid of $1.1 million on July 15 in what was quite possibly the priciest auction in eBay's history.   Read More...

Perfect Storm Boat Rides out $145,000 Bid     The 'Lady Grace' was built simultaneously with the 'Andrea Gail' in 1978, and is an operational steel-hulled, western rigged fishing vessel currently set up for long voyages.    Read More...

American Dealers Purchase Hiroshige Rarity Online     What would you bid for an undisputed landmark in the history of Japanese art? If you are a major dealer of Japanese woodblock prints, the high side of the estimated $50,000 to $80,000 value might not seem unreasonable.   Read More...

Glass and Lamps in New Hampshire Gross over $1.1 Million     Featured were miniature lamps, Victorian art glass, cut glass, early lighting, French glass, English cameo, and Twentieth Century lamps from Handel, Pairpoint and Tiffany.   Read More...

Private Collector Outbids Museum for Grant Wood Oil     More than 200 in-house attendants and slightly over 1,200 telephone, on-line and absentee bidders were registered for the Iowa sale. Additionally, more than 37 states and eight countries were represented.   Read More...

'Peanuts' Mania at Illustration House     NEW YORK CITY An absentee event featuring original artwork by the late Charles M. Schulz turned out to be a benchmark sale for the firm.   Read More...

German Gothic and Italian Renaissance Silver in London     The Wernher collection of silver realized 7,446,400 and was led by "Saint Sebastian" and "Saint Christopher," which formed the core of one of the most important assemblages of European silver seen at auction in London for over half a century.   Read More...

Henry Rifle Hits $35,924 Online     A letter from George Madis accompanied the gun indicating its authenticity and former postition in the Gaines DeGraffenried collection.   Read More...

Sixteenth Century Book of Hours Reaches $3.93 Million     LONDON, ENGLAND - A previously unknown Book of Hours, illuminated by the most celebrated Flemish illuminator of the Renaissance, Simon Bening (1483-1561), discovered recently in a private collection in the Netherlands, sold at Sotheby's July 6 for $3.93 million.   Read More...

Sales for Western Art Exceed $3 Million in Texas     DALLAS, TEX. Unquestionably the highlight of the auction was "An Old Time Sing" by recently deceased Western artist R. Brownell McGrew (1916-1994), which reached more than triple its high estimate for an astounding $962,500.   Read More...

New Record for an Old Master     LONDON, ENGLAND One of the most important drawings to appear at auction in the modern era became the most expensive Old Master drawing ever when it sold for $12,305,206.   Read More...

Declaration of Independence Fetches $8.14 Million Online     By most estimates its one of historys greatest documents and on June 29, 2000, two famous US personalities shelled out $8.14 million to secure a copy of the Declaration of Independence.   Read More...

Degas' Petite Danseuse Dances to 7.7 Million     LONDON, ENGLAND Edgar Degas bronze of a young ballet dancer, Petite Dansuse de quatorze ans, was sold on Tuesday, June 27, for 7,703,500.    Read More...

Merritt Collection of Royal Doulton Sold in Missouri     ST LOUIS, MO. Phillips-Selkirk, the St Louis salesroom for Phillips International of London, recently offered a collection from Arizona at its midwestern gallery.    Read More...

Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art in London     LONDON, ENGLAND Christies sales in London realized a total of $69,925,196 June 28. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art achieved $46,190,947, selling 87 percent by lot and 95 percent by value.    Read More...

John Quincy Adams letter brings $555,750 at Sotheby's     NEW YORK CITY A document written by John Quincy Adams in 1837 sold to Seth Kaller of Kallers America Gallery...   Read More...

Train Buyers Feast in Philly     PHILADELPHIA, PA. Last October, train enthusiasts from all over America gathered at Bill Bertoias Philadelphia auction to battle over 1,226 railway lots consigned by multimillionaire executive and collector extraordinaire Jerry Poch.    Read More...

A Painting Party in Massachusetts     BOLTON, MASS. Skinners Americana auction on June 11 witnessed aggressive bidding from morning to evening. The eight hundred lots offered included the deepest selection of strongly painted furniture offered at a New England auction during the past five years.   Read More...

Cowan Jazz Bowl Is Music to Cincinnati Phone Bidder at $121,000     CINCINNATI, OHIO On Saturday, June 3, Cincinnati Art Galleries sold a large Cowan Jazz bowl designed and executed and signed by noted ceramic artist Viktor Schreckengost, for the astounding price of $121,000.   Read More...

Jensen Silver Shines at William Doyle Galleries     NEW YORK CITY William Doyle Galleries presented a variety of fine and decorative art objects at their Belle Epoque auction...   Read More...

Trade Talk

International News Briefs     Will the incoming Bush administration support the arts?...New owners for Rockefeller Center...School district wins a Jasper Cropsey in court.   Read More...

Yahoo! Looks to the US to Block Recent French Ruling     The case stands to test the limits of foreign jurisdictions in cyberspace with its future implications for Internet companies conducting worldwide e-commerce.   Read More...

De Pury & Luxembourg Art to Merge with Phillips     Simon de Pury is to become chairman of the group, while Daniella Luxembourg will become president. They will assume overall management responsibility for Phillips internationally.   Read More...

Deep Thoughts     A consummate collector of American art shares decades' worth of insight in one slight volume - even seasoned collectors may pick up a tip or two.    Read More...

International News Briefs     More money for the troubled Barnes Foundation...Romania moves to stop the sale of a Brancusi at Christie's...New York's Ukranian museum gifted $3.5 million.   Read More...

Antiques America Reorganizes     Another Internet antiques venture has been squeezed by the tight market for investment dollars, resulting in a severe reduction in staff and a temporary freeze in some products.   Read More...

MFA Boston Delivers on an Internet Promise     The museum provides an online database of European artworks, each with a complete provenance.    Read More...

Searching for the Cool Yule?     There is a simpler, pleasurable alternative to all of the holiday hoopla: Christmas shopping while sitting in front of the computer.   Read More...

International News Briefs     Web surfers beware: Is your search engine for hire?...Missing historic documents, portraits turn up on eBay...Rare Sixteenth Century painting goes home to Germany.   Read More...

Gutenberg Bible Leaf Offered Online During the Holidays     The leaf is part of an incomplete copy that was acquired by a New York bookseller in a 1920 Sotheby's auction.   Read More...

Strong Sales Despite Smaller Attendance at The Ellis Memorial Antiques Show     Forty-five nationally prominent exhibitors created beautiful presentations that highlighted rare objects.   Read More...

At Yale, Some New Faces among the Old     Perhaps because of their small scale and intimate nature, portrait miniatures remain undervalued. Folk art collectors have bid up the works of Mrs Moses B. Russell, whose charmingly naive likenesses can sell for $30,000 or more.   Read More...

International News Briefs     An $800 million "cloudlike" Guggenheim to reshape NYC's waterfront...Museums will be more responsible for possible Nazi looted art...Terra Foundation mired in controversy.   Read More...

The Best of the Best of the Twenteith Century     The scope of the show according to Brian Haughton was “to present cutting-edge art and design, combining top dealers from Europe and America and the Far East." Objective accomplished.   Read More...

Military Historian/Artist Settles Lawsuit with Sony Pictures     Don Troiani claimed copyright infringement involving costume designs used in "The Patriot."   Read More...

Charitable Giving Among Auction Houses     This aspect of the trade has gained new visibility through the US Department of Justice's price fixing case against Sotheby's and Christie's.   Read More...

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Acquires Rare Egyptian Artifacts     The 2,300-year-old coffin of an Egyptian priest and four companion statues are on view in the Jamail Atrium on the second level.   Read More...

International News Briefs     Auction house owner arrested while stealing from storage facility...Carnegie Museum of Natural History faces age discrimination lawsuit...National Gallery returns painting to French family.   Read More...

Seventh Annual SOFA Chicago Is Bigger than Ever      Ninety international galleries presented three-dimensional art in glass, ceramics, wood, metal and fiber in over 40,000 square feet of exhibit space at Navy Pier.   Read More...

Retro Trend Serves Dealers Well at the Triple Pier Expo     “The line went out the entrance, down the stairs and continued to pier 90," said the show's manager. "The aisles were impossible to navigate and the energy in the place almost lifted you off your feet."    Read More...

Naming Names in the Gardner Art Heist     The two men identified by Myles Connor have been mentioned before by the press, but this is the first time that Connor has publicly admitted planning such a theft.   Read More...

International News Briefs     Museum's Matisse fails to sell at auction...one Picasso disappears while another is found...artists sue for rights to murals.   Read More...

The Delaware Antiques Show Reviewed     The restlessness of the event in the past has not done any damage and slight variations in the dealer list has increased the strength of the show.   Read More...

Premier Modernism in the Midwest     More than 50 top American, English and Canadian dealers in Twentieth Century design participated at Winnetka's 11th annual show.   Read More...

Sotheby's Announces Third Quarter Results     “The significant loss we are reporting for the first nine months was primarily affected by the charges associated with the Department of Justice investigation and related civil antitrust and shareholder litigation settlements." - William Ruprecht.   Read More...

Christie's Appoints John Hays as International Director     In his new role, Hays will develop business strategies for collections, specifically as they relate to the firm's sales of American furniture and American folk art.   Read More...

International News Briefs     Bronzes stolen in Paris end up in New York...eagle feathers lead to dealer guilty plea...a Picasso high despite low sales at Christie's.   Read More...

The Glamorous Theater of the International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show     For the highly imaginative show organizers Brian and Anna Haughton, all the world's a stage.   Read More...

Setback for Yahoo! in French Court     Computer professionals testified November 6 that it's technically possible to block the portal's users in France from seeing “offensive" material.    Read More...

30 Years and All Smiles     When Jim Burk walks around his Greater York Antiques Show smiling, you know things are going well. The show recently pulled in the largest opening gate on Friday, and a spurt in attendance on Sunday.   Read More...

Solid Rewards for Hard Work in Chicago     This year's committee set their sights on publicity for the Sacred Heart Schools' Antiques Show and increased attendance was the result - more than 2,000 people attended the event.    Read More...

International News Briefs     Tales of fine art and sour grapes...New legal woes for Christie's and Sotheby's...Phillips comes through as a major auctoin contender...   Read More...

Americana in a Small, Friendly Setting     The village of Stonington may have only 900 residents but with 15 antiques shops in town business is brisker than anyone might suppose.   Read More...

The ‘Ultimate Auction'?     Fox TV and Amazon.com bet on the Super Bowl of sales events.   Read More...

Funding May Mark a Clearer Online Trail for Bidpath     The company, a provider of e-marketing tools and distribution for traditional auctioneers, announced last week that they will close on a $12 million deal.   Read More...

Metropolitan Museum Opens New Galleries for Byzantine Art     The museum's holdings of Byzantine and early Medieval art constitute the preeminent collection in the United States.   Read More...

Trade News from around the World     Ten paintings worth an estimated $20 million, including an El Greco and a Courbet, were ordered returned to an Armonk, N.Y. woman whose family lost them to the Nazis in World War II.   Read More...

The Greenville County Museum of Art Antiques Show     If success is measured in terms of community support, there is no doubt this 15th annual event met its goals.   Read More...

A Soaring Tribute to the Sleek and Streamlined     Items from the Gramercy Park Modern Show represented the full spectrum of the genre and buyers began purchasing immediately after Friday's opening, indicating the strength of the market.   Read More...

International News Briefs     Two teams of scientists have deciphered five pages of the only known copy of a 2,300-year-old Greek text by the mathematician Archimedes.   Read More...

Memories of the Old Arctic     James Houston made his first trip to Cape Dorset, or Kingait, as the Inuit call it, in 1951. In the winter of 1957 he initiated what is now a world-famous print workshop.    Read More...

Stella's Gramercy Park Antiques Show Reviewed     A flood of decorators and dealers made up attendance on the first day, while a large retail crowd was noted during the weekend.   Read More...

Onview.com Reports Some $1 Million in Sales over Two Weeks     The e-commerce site and portal specializing in fine art announced on October 13 that it made the largest private sale of a work of art ever by an Internet company.   Read More...

International News Briefs     Massachusett's highest court ruled October 9 that 17 paintings currently at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts can't be sold by the trust that owns them.   Read More...

Just the Place You Want to Be     The leaves started showing off their colors a bit earlier in New York as 190 antiques dealers from all over New England - and even as far as Colorado, Michigan and Kentucky - gathered for the Rhinebeck Antiques Fair.    Read More...

The Fall Hartford Antiques Show     Spring or fall, the old “Hartford" shows are long in tradition and rich in the kind of rare, wonderful New England furniture that makes the hearts of true-blue collectors palpitate.   Read More...

Texas Monthly Gives 72 Photographs to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston     The collection was assembled to celebrate the magazine's 25th anniversary in 1998.   Read More...

International News Briefs     Israel “Zeke" Liverant, 83, one of the most respected antiques dealers in the country, died at his home in Colchester, Conn., on October 8.   Read More...

Sotheby's Former Executive Charged in Collusion Case     “Whatever Ms Brooks chose to do she did completely on her own without my knowledge or approval," A. Alfred Taubman said. “If the need arises, I will vigorously defend myself."   Read More...

TIAS.com Does the Work for You in Eight States     A Web site teams with eBay and launches a chain of online auction consignment centers.   Read More...

Timely and Teeming     At Arts of Pacific Asia, vetting is de rigeur and the quality of the show reflects it, while dealers are always a wonderful source of information.   Read More...

International News Briefs     Art collector Clara Weitzenhoffer has left the University of Oklahoma a collection of French Impressionist paintings that includes works by Degas, Gauguin, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec.   Read More...

A Few Tin Men     This week Sotheby's announced that it will auction more than 250 robots and space toys from the private collection of the late F.H. Griffith.   Read More...

Singing in the Rain     A day's crowd of 5,000 wrapped themselves around a “Boat and Boating" exhibition, waiting for entrance into the Adirondack Museum Antiques Show.   Read More...

International News Briefs     Auction giants Sotheby's and Christie's have reached a tentative agreement to pay $512 million to settle claims they conspired to manipulate prices they were paid by sellers and buyers.   Read More...

A New Generation Enjoys Wilton     The one-day Wilton DAR Antiques Marketplace enjoyed perfect fall weather, lots of fresh antiques and art, and a rush of young suburbanites eager to embrace quality antiques.   Read More...

Historic Deerfield Appoints New Assistant Curator of Furniture     A native of Hartford, Conn., Joshua Lane is a magna cum laude graduate of Amherst College with a master's degree in American Studies from Yale University, where he is a doctoral candidate.    Read More...

The 42nd Annual Hinsdale Antiques Show Reviewed     Rather than a theme, the event concentrated its efforts this year on spotlighting the antiques and fine art offered by the 24 exhibitors.   Read More...

International News Briefs     The New York Times has outlined the depletion of Barnes Foundation assets, stating that this renowned private art collection - which contains some 2,000 works of art valued at more than $6 billion - is “broke."    Read More...

Is It or Isn't It? Experts Puzzle over a Van Gogh Up for Grabs on the Internet     The work can be seen online at Michigan-based OldAndSold Antiques Auction, and is one the master himself may have painted in the spring of 1888.    Read More...

Brimfield's Fall Edition Reviewed     Route 20 was witness to an incredible stream of humanity whisking away items from the 4,000 vendors split into 22 fields. Eager shoppers waited in line with coffee in hand, prepared to begin their antiques excursion.   Read More...

Wesleyan University Receives Major Gift of Jim Dine Photographs     In addition, Dine will give Wesleyan an impression of every photogravure he makes in the future, creating at the Davison Art Center a complete repository of his photogravures.   Read More...

International News Briefs     The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, and the union that represents more than 100 staffers on strike since April reached an agreement early September 9, according to the museum and the union president.    Read More...

Well-Known Folk Art Collectors Are Victims of Fatal Crash     The Palleys, of Huntington Valley, Pa., and Joy Kanter, of Rydal, Pa., were returning to the Philadelphia area from a visit at the Kanters' home on Cape Cod.    Read More...

Farmington Antiques Weekend Reviewed     Early buying started off enthusiastically, with crowds of eager shoppers striding onto the 40-acre polo grounds in spite of light drizzle at 7am.    Read More...

A View from the Podium     On Thursday, August 24, noted auctioneer William A. “Bill" Smith died after a brief illness. He was 59.   Read More...

International News Briefs     Two siblings have agreed to pay $135,000 in taxes, penalties and interest to settle a decade-long dispute over priceless religious artwork their brother stole.   Read More...

Conservation Plans Underway at the Brooklyn Museum of Art     Selections from the museum's important holding of Mesoamerican and Pacific Northwest materials will be de-installed for at least a year.   Read More...

Burchfield-Penney Art Center Receives Major Gift     The Charles E. Burchfield journals contain an exceptional amount of documentary material about the celebrated watercolorist's life, interests, paintings, business, dreams, weather and nature observations, and personal anecdotes.    Read More...

Our New Hampshire Antiques Week Coverage Continues     Mid-Week in Manchester's crowds and sales continue to grow.   Read More...

Take Me to the River     Buyers swamp the Armory for Linda Turner's show.   Read More...

The Start of Manchester     Second year's a charm for one of New Hampshire's largest indoor events.   Read More...

An Americana Celebration     The settling dust from recent Americana auctions gets stirred up again with 125 dealers at the Deerfield Fairgrounds.   Read More...

Bedford Picker's Market     The popularity of country items here proves that pickers certainly can be choosers.   Read More...

International News Briefs     Prosecutors have succeeded in keeping behind bars antiques dealer William P. Youngworth III, 40, who claims to know the location of priceless paintings stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.   Read More...

43 Years of Stellar Offerings     We've got the scoop on all the antiques and behind-the-scenes happenings at the venerable New Hampshire Antiques Show.   Read More...

French Courts in Quandary over Nazi Memorabilia at Yahoo!     The online auction site claims that it can't keep French Web users from accessing their US pages.   Read More...

Nantucket Is Hot, Hot, Hot     Even though the odds were against success, the Historical Association's August Antiques Show drew buying crowds.   Read More...

A Bright Future for the Washington County Antiques Fair     George Green's fifth annual market opened to sunny skies and a full parking lot.    Read More...

International News Briefs     Christie's has appointed Jean-Claude Noel as international chief operating officer - a newly created position.   Read More...

A New Web Site for Photography Enthusiasts     Iphotocentral.com will focus exclusively on photographic art from 1826 to the present.    Read More...

Olympic ‘Antiquing' Marathon Noted at Arts Olympia     This traditional event is perhaps best known to American buyers.   Read More...

Christie's International Sales Total $1.172 Billion     January to June results increase 16 percent over the same period last year.   Read More...

Antiques for Everyone     British fair attracts 26,486 visitors to the offerings of some 600 dealers.   Read More...

International News Briefs     The American Association of Museums has adopted new ethical guidelines, prompted by the furor over last year's "Sensation" exhibit.    Read More...

Craftsman Auctioneers and David Rago Merge     What has beem created may come to dominate the national Arts and Crafts auction scene.   Read More...

Military Historian and Artist Sues Sony Pictures     "The Patriot" steps on Don Troiani's toes.   Read More...

The Gallery Showing An Artist Never Had     A look at fine art on the Internet with icollector.com.   Read More...

Montgomery Prize Announced     The prize is presented annually for the most distinguished contribution to the study of American decorative arts published in the English language.    Read More...

Sotheby's Announces Internet Earnings     Executives say that Internet costs will continue to have a negative impact...   Read More...

International News Briefs     Police have arrested a woman on charges of receiving stolen property after finding Japanese woodblock prints stolen from the George Walter Vincent Smith Museum in her home...   Read More...

Rhinebeck Reviewed     The Rhinebeck Antiques Fair has a reputation of shattering attendance records at the first opportunity.    Read More...

Uncommon Denominators Abound in Maine     The shows successes over its 71 years of existence can be attributed to the association, which takes care of everything from decorations to hospitality to publicity.    Read More...

Timken Museum of Art Acquires Important American Still Life     Hidden from public view for nearly a century, the painting, by John Frederick Peto, was unveiled on July 20.   Read More...

A New President for the National Auctioneer's Association     R. Bracky Rogers assumed the presidency of the NAA on July 20 during the organization's annual convention in Norfolk, Va.   Read More...

Trade News from Around the World     Amazon.com is aiming to have "more than half" of its total sales come from outside the United States within the next ten-plus years...   Read More...

Great Ephemera at Great Eastern     Several exhibitors at the summer show displayed items that could be considered showstoppers.   Read More...

Gignoux Painting Rediscovered     The canvas contains a blend of French and American traits that characterize many of the Gignoux's early works.   Read More...

An Old Time Antique Tractor and Engine Show     Although the show is still in its infancy, promoters were happy with the 15 exhibitors on hand.   Read More...

New York Building Collapses on Irreplaceable Artifacts     Among the 20,000 items lost were Tiffany windows, elements from the Chrysler building, and an intricately carved coffered walnut ceiling from the collection of William Randolph Hearst.   Read More...

International News Briefs     Online auctioneer eBay, San Jose, Calif., is cutting back its live auction businesses in an effort to sell more high-end art and antiques on the Internet.   Read More...

On the Road with Classic Cars     BRIDGEWATER, CONN Heat and humidity took a back seat as hundreds took to the field to view 25 classes of cars, from pre-1916 to modern.   Read More...

Bennington Museum Opens Pottery Gallery, Study Center     BENNINGTON, VT Superlative pottery, rare tools, and historic photographs and documents trace the development of the Norton Pottery and Christopher Webber Fentons United States Pottery Company.   Read More...

Bargains Abound at the 16th Semi-Annual Topsfield Show     There were lots of people looking for bargains and that one collectible needed to round out a collection. When the gates opened at the fairgrounds at 8 am for the early buying preview, the cycle began anew.    Read More...

Trade News from Around the World     The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Va., is seeking an architect to develop plans for a parking deck and expansion and renovations to the existing museum building.   Read More...

American Furniture Expert Harold Sack Dies     Sack would spend his life on a constant treasure hunt, finding great pieces of American furniture which today live in well-known private and museum collections.    Read More...

International News Briefs     Cave drawings an Iowa pilot stumbled on in the Egyptian desert and experts initially said could date back to 7000 B.C. are now considered suspect.    Read More...

Cleveland Museums New Acquisitions     CLEVELAND, OHIO Dominating this installation in the recent acquisitions gallery is an impressive mid-Nineteenth Century double portrait of two brothers from a prominent French family.   Read More...

Moving Heaven and Earth at Wilton     WILTON, CONN. Ringed by craters and mounds of dirt twenty feet high, this years Wilton Outdoor Marketplace was part antiques show, part environmental happening.    Read More...

Cimabue Masterpiece to Reside in the Hands of the British Public     LONDON, ENGLAND An important Thirteenth Century masterpiece by the Italian master Cimabue, discovered during preparations for a house contents sale in Suffolk, has been saved for the nation of Great Britain in a sale partly in lieu of tax negotiated by Sothebys auction house.    Read More...

Carlos Museum Acquires Two Important Greek Vases     ATLANTA, GA. On June 12, the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University acquired two important Greek vases at a Christies Ancient Greek Vases auction in New York City.    Read More...

International News Briefs     Police in the western city of Izmir, Turkey, said June 25 they recovered a second painting believed to be a stolen Picasso - this time a portrait of the painter's mistress, Dora Maar.   Read More...

Farmington Meets Summer's Evil Twin     FARMINGTON, CONN. - Theres nothing better than a summer show on a beautiful day. Sunshine, newly mown grass, burgers on a grill, antiques al fresco.   Read More...

Nominees to Sothebys Board Announced     NEW YORK CITY The Board of Directors of Sothebys Holdings has recommended 16 nominees to serve as directors of Sothebys Holdings for the coming year.   Read More...

The New York International Tribal Antiques Show     NEW YORK CITY The sixth annual edition of the New York International Tribal Antiques Show, conducted for the second year uptown at the Seventh Regiment Armory, recently enjoyed its strongest presentation to date.    Read More...

IMA To Unveil The Gallery Of African Art      INDIANAPOLIS, IND. The Indianapolis Museum of Arts Eiteljorg Gallery of African Art will reopen August 19. Closed since November 1999, the Eiteljorg Gallery is reopening in conjunction with the IMAs annual AfricaFest celebration of African and African-American heritage.   Read More...

Gallery Hopping

Made in Oakland     The American Craft Museum takes a closer look at Gary Knox Bennett, who has played a major role in the development of studio furniture in the San Francisco Bay Area and across the nation for more than 25 years.    Read More...

Jacob Lawrence Memorial Retrospective in New York     The D.C. Moore Gallery presentation will include more than 30 paintings selected from Lawrence's 60-year career.   Read More...

Berry-Hill Presents Its Fourth Annual Old Masters Exhibit      Also featured will be a group of Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Bolognese drawings from the collection of Aldega/Gordon.    Read More...

In Search of the Promised Land     The Portland Museum of Art will present a retrospective exhibition of works by Frederic Edwin Church, one of the most famous and distinguished American landscape painters of the Nineteenth Century, and the foremost member of the second generation of the Hudson River School.   Read More...

Furniture from British India and Ceylon Showcased at the Peabody-Essex     Sir George Birdwood, an Englishman living in India in the late Nineteenth Century, took note of that country's vigorous commerce in artworks. “In India everything, as yet, is hand wrought," he wrote, “and is therefore more or less a work of art."   Read More...

Jean Poyet: Artist to the Court of Renaissance France     The first one-man show in the United States devoted to the work of this manuscript illuminator opens at the Morgan Library on January 25.   Read More...

With Glass, the Bowers Museum Reflects on Roman Cultural Change     This traveling exhibition illustrates how the craft of glassmaking was influenced by historical events and changing social values in the ancient Roman world.    Read More...

Winslow Homer and the Critics     More than 50 of Homer's most famous oil paintings and watercolors, along with less familiar but equally significant works from 1868 to 1881, will be featured at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.   Read More...

The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright at the American Craft Museum     As a young man Wright bemoaned the fact that he had to “cut holes" in his “beautiful buildings." Yet very soon, American's greatest architect made the window a defining element in his protean architecture.    Read More...

Scythian and Sarmatian Treasure from the Russian Steppes     The Metropolitan Museum of Art is presenting nearly 100 of these works - none of which has ever been shown anywhere - through February 4, 2001.   Read More...

The Famous Portraits of Rollie McKenna     McKenna is best known for her depictions of some of the greatest literary and artistic figures of the Twentieth Century.   Read More...

An Artist and Educator Receives New Attention 50 Years after His Death     Hirschl & Adler Galleries will present the first comprehensive exhibition exploring the life and work of Frank von der Lancken ( 1872-1950), one of the early progenitors of the Arts and Crafts movement in America.   Read More...

The Meaning of Modern over the Last 100 Years     “Eye of Modernism," which opens at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum on March 23, 2001, brings together a stunning collection of works on paper dating from the 1890s to the 1980s.   Read More...

When the Church was State     The intersections of religious faith and early democratic principles in the founding era of the United States played a vital role in the formation of the new nation's identity.   Read More...

New York Toy Stories     Focusing on the imagination and the imaginary, the exhibit includes games, toys, and playthings that have shaped the experiences of the city's children.   Read More...

Be Seated     One hundred and fifty chairs and dozen sofas will celebrate the move to London from Leeds by Windsor House Antiques.   Read More...

Early Drawings by Yayoi Kusama at the Birmingham Museum of Art     The show surveys the brightly colored, highly patterned, visually saturated works of this recently rediscovered artist.    Read More...

Wildenstein Exhibits the Ethereal Works of Marc Chagall     The show consists of 17 oil paintings, ranging in date from 1917 to 1981, as well as a selection of works in gouache, watercolor, ink and collage.    Read More...

Legend Has It     The Mariners' Museum examines stories of pirates and heroes with an extensive collection of artifacts.   Read More...

A Century of Fashion     The Los Angeles County Museum of Art features more than 130 costumes from its outstanding permanent collection.   Read More...

A Panorama of Cincinnati School Painters     This 15th annual show includes major examples of work by celebrated artists.   Read More...

Tranquil America     Eighty works demonstrate the emphasis, adhered to by so many artists over the course of a century, on expressing quiet moods in their works.   Read More...

American Master Prints at Hirschl & Adler     The exhibition features a diverse selection of the best of American prints, tracing the development and rich variety of American printed images over the last century.   Read More...

Snap!     In the hands of contemporary artists, the camera is more than unblinking captor and objective recorder of “truth."   Read More...

Luminary Landscapes at Beaux Arts     Scenes of Woodbury, Southbury and Martha's Vineyard are on view in Connecticut through January 9, 2001.   Read More...

Viktor Schreckengost and Twentieth Century Design     The Cleveland Museum of Art presents the first major exhibition of the work of this internationally respected artist.    Read More...

Hip-Hop Nation     The explosion of hip-hop will be presented at the Brooklyn Museum of Art through more than 400 items from the 1970s to the present, among them hip-hop fashions, videos, and artifacts.    Read More...

Woodstock Artists Association Honors Its Founders     The work of five artists who established the framework for the association 80 years ago and helped see it through its early years will be featured through January 8.   Read More...

The Navajo Weaving Tradition     Featuring blankets and rugs from the Bruce Museum collection, the exhibition presents several examples of major styles and influences on the Navajo weaving.   Read More...

A Walk in the Indiana Woods     Eckert Fine Art will feature the work of John Elwood Bundy (1853-1933) through December 2.   Read More...

Images of the Spirit     Photographs by Graciela Iturbide make up a retrospective of one of the most important and celebrated artists working in Latin America today.   Read More...

The Spectacle of Life     Berry-Hill will exhibit the work of Everett Shinn exactly 200 years after his first show in New York in 1900 - a critical and commercial success that launched the artist's remarkable career.   Read More...

The Boston Art Club     A fixture in the city's cultural community for nearly a century, the club pioneered support for art appreciation and patronage in New England.   Read More...

Findlay Features Still Lifes and Landscapes by Roger Muhl     This special exhibition commemorates the firm's 40-year relationship with the artist and comprises 60 recent paintings in oil.   Read More...

Black in White America     "Photographs by Leonard Freed of African Americans and the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s" will be on view at Lee Gallery to December 22.   Read More...

Traditions in Clay     Eighty-four diverse and visually striking ceramic vessels from ancient and Islamic Iran and the Khmer Empire are featured at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.   Read More...

The American Avant-Garde     This challenging exhibition shatters the myth that Abstract Expressionism appeared spontaneously in the late Forties and early Fifties without outside influence or external cause.   Read More...

Boundless Coast     Loftus's work at the Fischbach Gallery features dramatic views of Santa Cruz.   Read More...

Chorus of Light     An exhibition of one of the leading private photography collections in the world - one that just so happens to be owned by Sir Elton John - will be shown to the public this fall in Atlanta, Ga., for the first time.   Read More...

Art by the Book at Boston College     The John J. Burns Library of Rare Books and Special Collections has unveiled a special assemblage of $35 million worth of rare books and illuminated manuscripts dating as far back as the Fifth Century.   Read More...

Minneapolis Netsuke Exhibit Travels to Santa Barbara     At first, netsuke were found objects - a polished nut, a piece of root, or a shark's tooth. Soon artists began to carve highly detailed and powerful masterpieces on a miniature scale.   Read More...

Contemporary Realism at Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery     A second show at the new 57th Street location will feature solo exhibitions by artists Dennis James Martina and Daniel Tennant.    Read More...

Pilgrims, Patriots and Products     The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities will look at how advertisers have used romanticized imagery about America's past to sell commercial products.   Read More...

Karel Teige and the Czech Avant-Garde     The Wolfsonian-Florida International University will present the first US exhibition on Karel Teige, the most important Czech proponent of the European avant-garde.   Read More...

The Documentary Photography of Alfred Gescheidt     Starting in the 1950s, Gescheidt began photographing life's little details on the streets and beaches of the United States. With an eye for the sublime and the humor that happens in every day life, he captured many engaging images of American life.   Read More...

Auctions, Subways and Still Lifes     More than 30 paintings and pastels by renowned contemporary figurative painter Daniel Greene will be shown at Hollis Taggart Galleries.   Read More...

Worlds Revealed     More than 200 artworks, cultural objects, and documents dating from the early years of trade between Japan and America in this exhibition drew more than 92,000 visitors last fall to the Edo-Tokyo Museum and opens at the Peabody Essex Museum November 17.   Read More...

Glasgow Style     Furniture and decorative arts and paintings by members of the Glasgow School will be the subject of the first collaboration between John Alexander, Ltd., an American British Arts and Crafts gallery, and Bourne Fine Art of Edinburgh, Scotland.   Read More...

In the City of Light     Wesleyan's Davison Art Center features photographs of Paris taken by Philip Trager.   Read More...

Love and Loss     American portrait miniatures, an art form that flourished from the mid-Eighteenth to the mid-Nineteenth centuries, will be examined at the Yale University Art Gallery through December 30.   Read More...

Art for the Nation     Surveying the last five centuries of European and American art, this exhibition and its accompanying catalogue represent a selection of some of the finest works acquired by the National Gallery since 1991.   Read More...

Corning Museum of Glass Opens New Modern Gallery     The work of more than 100 designers and artists will be represented in this state-of-the-art facility.   Read More...

Painted Air     This Ogunquit show represents nearly 100 different American painters with 135 paintings lent from numerous small historical societies, art associations, libraries, small colleges and private collections, and art dealers.   Read More...

Antioch: The Lost City     Organized by the Worcester Art Museum, the exhibit is the most ambitious and significant undertaking in the museum's 102-year history.   Read More...

The Hunt Institute Offers Gifts of Winter     Featured are artworks and books from the institute's collection, and paintings created especially for the exhibition by Richard Carroll, Charles Pitcher and Michael Wheeler.   Read More...

Flights of Fancy     Before the Revolution, England influenced American style in everything from architecture to fashion. This was also true for silver spoons decorated with birds.    Read More...

Twenty-Seven Contemporary Artists at Steuben     This landmark retrospective of the firm's critically acclaimed 1940 exhibition is the first public display of original signed drawings and sketches by some of the most famous artists of that period.   Read More...

The Miniature in the Arts of Asia at Yale     An engaging variety of small-scale art objects featured from China, Japan, India and Southeast Asia include netsuke, inro, cosmetic boxes, and ivory figurines.   Read More...

New Paintings by Landscape Artist Curtis W. Hanson     With a fluent brush, Hanson translates his deep appreciation for nature into these oil paintings shown at Potter & Slack.   Read More...

In Search of Henry S. Fiske     The drawings and paintings of this New England landscape artist and minister are rediscovered at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Basin Harbor, Vt.   Read More...

Palace of Gold and Light     A traveling assemblage of imperial jewels and treasures from the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, the historic center of one of the world's most powerful empires, may be seen at three museums in the United States.   Read More...

J. Alden Weir     In his lifetime, Weir (1852-1919) was considered one of America's leading painters, yet for years after his death his achievements were all but forgotten. Now two complementary exhibits of his art in Connecticut suggest why his standing is likely to improve for posterity.   Read More...

Customized: Hot Rods, Low Riders and American Car Culture     Opening at the Institute of Contemporary Art on October 25, the show examines the artists who have defined the imagery and attitude of American car culture.   Read More...

The Renaissance of Maurice Sapiro     An inspiring chapter in the life and creative career of Maurice this artist is explored in more than 40 paintings and watercolors at The Cooley Gallery through October 14.   Read More...

Rave Reviews     This first comprehensive historical examination of American art criticism will include some of the most powerful images in American art, along with others that received attention only in their own time.    Read More...

A Silver Evolution     On loan at Historic Deerfield are 12 pieces of communion and baptismal silver that have been in the possession of a Northampton church since the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth centuries.   Read More...

Of Earth and Sky     The Fischbach Gallery presents recent landscape paintings by Timothy Arzt -the artist's first solo show there.   Read More...

Manet: The Still Life Images     This major survey premiers in France before heading to The Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Md.   Read More...

The Chinese Painter as Poet     Why do Chinese Paintings have calligraphy on them? For the first time in the US, a landmark exhibition explores the link between words and images in Chinese art.   Read More...

Curtains, Cases and Covers     Eighteenth Century beds hung with yards and yards of fabric were considered status symbols, much like an expensive car today.   Read More...

Works on Paper by Will Barnet     Tibor de Nagy show emphasizes the artist's abstract works from the 1940s and '50s.   Read More...

America and Abroad in the Nineteenth Century from the Realist's Perspective     Wiscasset Bay features works demonstrating a move away from Classicism's for-mality and Romanticism's sentimentality.   Read More...

Monet, Renoir and The Impressionist Landscape      The international touring phenomenon will be on view in Richmond at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts from September 19 through December 10.   Read More...

Face to Face     New York University's Grey Art Gallery will examine the role of cosmetics in promoting modern-era ideals of beauty.   Read More...

An Engagement with Folk Art     Highlighted are approximately 60 examples of this genre, half of which are quilts and textiles.   Read More...

A Genius for Place      A new photograpy display at the PaineWebber Art Gallery looks at a previously unexamined period of American landscape architecture.   Read More...

Inventing the Skyline     The exhibit taps the rich architecture collection of the New-York Historical Society to examine some of the most celebrated structures of Cass Gilbert (1859-1934).   Read More...

Celebrating Modern Art     For the largest exhibition in SFMOMA's history, three floors of gallery space will be given over to the display of more than 330 paintings, sculptures and works on paper the private collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry W Anderson.   Read More...

Three Centuries of American Summer Retreats at Hirschl and Adler     American artists have been drawn to the same idyllic summer haunts generation after generation. These paintings retain the visual memories of the lazy and hazy days of summer.   Read More...

Masters of Italian Glass     Barry Friedman Ltd features the work of contemporary Italian glass artists within the context of Italian masters from the first half of the Twentieth Century.    Read More...

No Two Alike     The Mills College Art Museum presents the first California showing of the work of George E. Ohr.   Read More...

Capture the Wind     The Hudson River Museum traces the development of yacht racing on the Long Island Sound and the Hudson River.   Read More...

Japanesque Flatware By Tiffany Shown in New York     These examples of Nineteenth Century sterling silver flatware, many pieces never before publicly exhibited, will be on display at the Lauren Stanley Gallery.   Read More...

The Art of Basketmaking     One of the earliest crafts developed by man, basketry was an essential activity and a product used by every nomadic tribe and all civilizations for the gathering, carrying and storage of goods.   Read More...

Celebration and Vision     The Hewitt Collection of African-American Art travels to Howard University.   Read More...

Illuminations of the Declaration of Independence     Upholding tradition at the Union League of Philadelphia.   Read More...

Faithful Boston     The show is an outgrowth of the Pluralism Project at Harvard University, a decade-long study of America's changing religious landscape.    Read More...

Largest Exhibition of Faberge Masterpieces Presented in Delaware     This world premiere assemblage features some 1,000 masterpieces from more than 30 of the world's most prestigious private collections and museums.   Read More...

In Line with Al Hirschfeld     The display represents the first museum retrospective to document the artist's life and career and, to a great extent, the history of Twentieth Century performing arts.   Read More...

Luigi Lucioni Paintings Exhibited at Equinox Gallery     Each canvas is a blend of sharp outlines, color modulations, and revealing light. .   Read More...

From Earth, Fire and Spirit     The Southwest Museum's collection of Pueblo pottery is among the finest and largest in existence.   Read More...

At Home and Abroad     The work of one of the most important American artists of the Nineteenth Century, William Trost Richards (1833-1905), is the subject of this exhibition at William Vareika Fine Arts Gallery.   Read More...

Amadeo de Souza Cardoso at AXA     Presented is the first US exhibit devoted to this Portuguese futurist.   Read More...

The Weapon as Art     Rare, historic objects in Frankfort, Ky.   Read More...

Boston Gallery Showcases Shimaoka     New works by this renowned Japanese potter are featured.   Read More...

Fit for a King     Paintings and artifacts illustrate the history of an unusual chair.   Read More...

Kremlin Gold     Russian gems and jewels are shown in Chicago.   Read More...

Dog Paintings in New York     The 30 oil paintings in the exhibition have been chosen to represent a range of Nineteenth Century animal artists.   Read More...

Antique and Modern Dolls in the Midwest     The presentation reflects the Illinois State Museum's mission to educate the public about the cultural and artistic values of objects. It also discusses the importance of collecting, both publicly and privately, as a way to preserve our heritage.   Read More...

Pharoahs of the Sun     CHICAGO, ILL. The first major exhibition of Egyptian art to travel to the city in more than 20 years, "Pharaohs of the Sun" is expected to draw at least 250,000 visitors during its run in the Art Institute's Regenstein Hall through September 24.   Read More...

The Art of Mapping     GREENWICH, CONN. The exhibition features more than 40 antique maps and sea charts, all printed in woodcut or engraved, most hand-colored.   Read More...

Sky Poems on the Cape     ORLEANS, MASS. Allrich paints within the framework of realism, her expressive landscapes and Sky Poems reflect her deep affiliation to the natural world.   Read More...

Gold of the Nomads     BROOKLYN, N.Y. Gold of the Nomads: Scythian Treasures from Ancient Ukraine is the first major exhibition of Scythian art in the United States in more than a quarter century.    Read More...

Stripes and Stars     NEW YORK CITY "Stripes and Stars: A Visual History of an American Icon" is an exhibition that vividly documents Americas enduring affair with a true national icon.    Read More...

Africa by Africans     NEW YORK CITY "Africa by Africans: A Photographic Essay" provides a wholly different vision of African cultures: a view from the inside.    Read More...

Lost Long Island     COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. Lost Long Island, part two in a series on The Long Island Country House 1860-1940, can be seen at the Gallery of the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities.   Read More...

A Century of Collected Treasures     NEW YORK CITY Contemporary pottery and African masks, Pucci dresses and Kewpie dolls are among the eclectic cultural treasures in the new exhibition The Morris Museum: A Collected Century.   Read More...

Splendid Voyage     COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. Splendid Voyage: Life on a Long Island Whaler, an exhibition that traces the two and a half year pacific whaling voyage of the Cold Spring Harbor whaleship Splendid, is on view at the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum through June 2001.   Read More...

The Impressionists at Argenteuil     HARTFORD, CONN. Impressionists at Argenteuil, a special exhibition that assembles more than 50 canvases by Monet, Renoir, Manet, Sisley, Caillebotte, and Boudini to trace the birth of Impressionism.   Read More...

Introductions 2000 at John Pence     SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. John Pence Gallery, at 750 Post Street, will present Introductions 2000, an exhibition of recent oil paintings by Sarah Lamb.   Read More...