Shelburne Museum director Stephan Jost recently announced the acquisition of several works to the museum⁳ collection, among them an important painting by Nineteenth Century maritime artist Francis Augusta Silva (1835‱886).

Featuring more than 115 works of art, including paintings, photographs, sculpture and works on paper, and introducing 28 artists new to the museum, The Phillips Collection has unveiled the newest additions to its collection of modern art in the exhibition ⁄egas to Diebenkorn: The Phillips Collects,†on view through May 25.

The Palm Beach International Art and Antiques Fair, on display this year from February 1 to 10, has always desired a place at the table with the best European high-end shows, and is well on its way.

Fred H. Bennett, 88, died February 15 at Bethel Health Care Center. A resident of Newtown since 1962, Mr Bennett was the owner of Poverty Hollow Antiques until his retirement in 1998.

In a world of look-alike fairs, the Nashville Antiques and Garden Show is unto itself †half antiques, half gardens (& etcetera), and 100 percent over the top.

From 1880 to the outbreak of World War I, American brilliant-cut glass was a popular luxury product among the country⁳ elite. More than 100 superb examples are on view in the new exhibition ⁔he Brilliant Period of American Cut Glass†at the Mint Museum of Art through August 17.

⁏nce upon a time, there was a prince and a princess, and that⁳ exactly how a description of the Murphys should begin,†writer Donald Ogden Stewart once observed of Sara and Gerald Murphy. Attractive, gifted, wealthy Americans with homes in Paris and on the French Riviera, the Murphys were at the center of expatriate cultural and social life during the modernist ferment of the 1920s. Far more than mere wealthy patrons, they were creative kindred spirits whose sustaining friendship released creative energy. The result was some of the most notable art, literature, music and theater of the Twentieth Century. The glittering and sometimes tragic lives of the Murphys and their brilliant artistic circle are rewardingly examined in ⁍aking It New: The Art and Style of Sara & Gerald Murphy,†a fascinating exhibition on view at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Conn., through May 4.

Art ruled the day at Ron Bourgeault⁳ February Weekend Auction this past Friday through Sunday, February 22′4, or perhaps better put, art ruled all three days of the popular Northeast Auctions event.

Hesse Galleries sold a stoneware cooler for a record $58,300 at auction on February 16. The cooler was part of the Margaret (Jane) Merrick estate from Cooperstown, N.Y.

There was more than fun at the official auctions of the Florida United Numismatics (FUN) convention January 10‱3 when Heritage Auction Galleries mounted its second largest coin and currency auction ever, and two coins went over the $1 million mark.