Bonhams & Butterfields has announce the September 27, 2009 auction of The JZ Knight Collection. Amassed over a decade, the Collection will feature eclectic and unique examples of period furniture, decorative arts, carpets and paintings from the 17th through 20th centuries with a particular focus on European and American elegance. A Chinese [Read More]
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The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with the Arago featured collection “One Giant Leap for Mankind: Celebrating NASA & Apollo 11 through Stamps.” In partnership with the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, this exhibit includes space-related objects from the collections of both [Read More]
On Sunday, July 26, 2009, Spence’s Bazaar is being transformed to host Delaware’s Largest Free Outdoor Antique and Collectible Show. Brought to you by promoters Toyshows.org, The Delaware Antique and Collectible Extravaganza will be held at Spence’s Bazaar, 550 S. New Street, Dover, Delaware, 19901. Antique and Collectible Dealers from up and [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Asia Society, New York will present an unprecedented exhibition of ancient art from Viet Nam—the first in the U.S. to address the historical, geographic and cultural contexts of pre-colonial Vietnamese art in depth. Throughout its long history, Viet Nam served as a central hub for [Read More]
Michael Bennett-Levy’s collection of Early Technology will go under the hammer at Bonhams Knightsbridge salesroom on 30 September. The 24 televisions make up what is thought to be the biggest private collection of pre-war televisions in The World along with other examples of what Mr. Bennett-Levy describes as Early Technology. “Virtually everything [Read More]
dmg world media opens its newest antique, art and jewelry exhibition, the annual Washington DC Antiques Art & Jewelry Show, with a fabulous preview party from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, October 14, 2009, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, located at 801 Mount Vernon Place, N.W. in Washington, D.C. The proceeds […]
The most popular gold pattern of all time, the 1879 $4 stella – or rather a pair of them – led the way at Heritage Auction Galleries’ $9 million Summer FUN auction in Palm Beach, Fla., July 9-12. “We’re quite pleased with the results,” said Greg Rohan. “Collectors responded well to the [Read More]
“RECORD > AGAIN! – 40yearsvideoart.de – Part 2” is dedicated to the history of German video art from its beginnings in the 1960s and 1970s through to the early twenty-first century. Shown will be numerous discoveries, unavailable for viewing for decades. Many tapes had to be laboriously restored in the ZKM Laboratory [Read More]
Fifty Olmeca sculptures exhibited at La Venta Park Museum, Villahermosa, Tabasco, have been totally cleaned up by National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) experts, after 23 of them were vandalized in January 2009. Restorer Lilia Rivero Webber, head of INAH National Coordination of Cultural Heritage Conservation (CNCPC), informed that along with [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is displaying a firefighting-themed quilt made in 1853 in South Reading, Mass. in museum’s Artifact Walls. The quilt will be exhibited until approximately the end of the year. The quilt is composed of thirty 15-1/2-inch blocks and measures 93 inches by 78 inches. On one [Read More]
Noel Barrett’s June 19-20 Toys of Summer auction recalled the simple charm of village life in late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe with a parade of predominantly German-made tinplate characters and scale-model marvels that grossed nearly $1 million (all prices quoted include 15% buyer’s premium). It wasn’t just the toys that came [Read More]
In the entire world, there are but a handful of companies that attempt the level of furniture making for which West Coast-based Burton-Ching has developed its sterling reputation. On July 13, 2009, international fine arts auctioneers Bonhams & Butterfields offered part II of the famed Burton-Ching Collection to a highly enthusiastic crowd. [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History acquired a letter written by George Washington Nov. 30, 1785, to David Stuart, an associate and stepfather to Washington’s grandchildren. Stuart was in Richmond, Va., and had written to Washington with news of the Virginia legislature. Washington wrote this letter during the short period—1783 to [Read More]
David Gill, archaeologist, considers how antiquities derived from Iraq continue to appear on the antiquities market. The 2003 invasion of Iraq led to the loss of some 15,000 items from the archaeological collections in Baghdad. This alerted the international community to the scale of the problem and as a result some 6000 [Read More]