The Cape Cod Antique Dealers Association Inc offered an elegant and tidy presentation at its 40th annual Cape Cod Antiques Show & Sale at the Nauset Regional Middle School August 6‸.

Prominent Upper Eastside Manhattan art dealer Lawrence B. Salander, who pleaded guilty to a $120 million fraud scheme this past March, was sentenced by the State Supreme Court in Manhattan on August 3 to serve 6 to 18 years in prison.

Harvey Kahn, preeminent American folk art collector and representative for commercial illustrators and photographers, died Friday, July 30, at the age of 86.

A beautiful pair of huanghuali Chinese folding hunting chairs with hemp seats and brass trim sold for $26,880 at a sale of the estate of the late Dr Kevin-John McIntyre, conducted June 12 by Finney⁳ Auction Service.

An early Seventeenth Century gilt brass automata lion clock, which moves its eyes in time with the seconds and roars a chime every hour, sold for $180,000 at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its fine clocks and barometers sale on July 14.

For its 44th annual antique show, the New London Garden Club had a beautiful New England summer day, Saturday, July 24, and a very large audience that visited and showed their appreciation of the collections offered.

Opening this month at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is an exhibition that highlights photography⁳ role in South Africa⁳ complex transformation from apartheid to integration. ⁄arkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950,†will open August 21 and run through October 24 at the VMFA and the Visual Arts Center of Richmond.

Debuting in a new venue on a new date, the annual antiques show sponsored by the Vermont Antiques Dealers†Association offered collections by 60 dealers as the show combined with the Green Mountain Antiques Show.

Summer Magic, the pared down edition of the spring and fall Rhinebeck Antiques Fair, battled extreme heat on July 23. ýｔhe crowd was down, but the hardy shoppers were there as always and several were buying heavily,ý＠said promoter Bruce Garrett.

Former bicycle repairman and preacher-turned-artist, the Reverend Howard Finster (1916-2001) was truly one of a kind. A minister in paint and a self-described ⁍an of Visions,†this energetic and ambitious self-taught painter created more than 46,000 pieces of art in his effort to spread the word of God. Believing his mission was to use art to alert people about how to save their souls from the horrors of hell, he referred to himself as ⁇od⁳ last red light on the planet Earth.†Astutely blending preaching skills, marketing savvy and appealing artwork, Finster became a larger-than-life personality and a national celebrity. Arguably, after Grandma Moses, he is perhaps the best-known American folk artist of the late Twentieth Century. The saga of Finster⁳ life and art is comprehensively covered in a welcome and revelatory exhibition, ⁓tranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard Finster,†on view at the Chicago Cultural Center through September 26.