Heritage Auction Galleries’ recent auction of celebrity, music and entertainment memorabilia realized $1,531,494 with top billing going to a wristwatch worn by singer Buddy Holly.

On May 3 at Sotheby’s, in a packed salesroom, Pablo Picasso’s “Dora Maar au chat,” one of the artist’s most spectacular depictions of his lover and artistic companion, sold for $95,216,000.

A feather in the cap for Wendy Management, The Spring International Art and Antiques Show was a highly successful upscale event of unprecedented quality.

Just in time for the release of the film The Da Vinci Code, the Portland Museum of Art is displaying its rarely seen “Mona Lisa” painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.

On Memorial Day Weekend when people traditionally reopen their camps and cabins, The Brick Store Museum debuts its newest exhibition, “Camp Maine: Rustic Furniture & Accessories, 1860-1940.”

The world’s best collection of Hudson River School paintings returns, after a two-and-a-half year national tour, to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, June 2-December 31.

Thanks to longtime Hartford philanthropists Melinda and Paul Sullivan, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art’s exhibition “Samuel Colt: Arms, Art and Invention” is back on the museum’s 2006 schedule.

“It was really hoppin’,” commented Tony Zipp in regard to Crocker Farm’s auction of American stoneware and redware that took place this past Saturday, May 20.

A rare oversized watercolor by Jacob Maentel attracted a great deal of attention during Pook & Pook’s two-day auction May 12 and 13, quadrupling its high estimate to sell for $420,000.

With spring weather adding to the ambiance, the Concord Antiques Show was filled to capacity with dealers offering antique furnishings, household accessories and even some Revolutionary War rdf_Descriptions.