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(Fragment)Magda Grigorian Heads to Phillips
Magda Grigorian has been appointed chief communications officer for Phillips. Based in New York City and reporting to chief executive officer Edward Dolman, Grigorian will drive the auction house’s global communications and public relations strategies and oversee all aspects of internal and external communications, the auction house said.
Magda Grigorian.
Grigorian has ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Birds, Bugs and Butterflies Wins 2020 American Ceramic Circle Book Award
The American Ceramic Circle (ACC) Book Award, established in 2005, recognizes English-language publications that advance the study of ceramics, present new scholarship and interpretations, and, in doing so, become important and standard references in the field.
The ACC Book Award committee identified the 2020 winner as Birds, Bugs and Butterflies: Lady ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)All We Have
The Young Collector
In trying times, we find joy in small or unexpected places. One of our unexpected joys in the past seven months (which have felt like three and a half decades) is a weekly video chat that our younger child has with his cousin by cell phone. She is ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Sues Sotheby’s Over False Tax Exemption Certificates
In early November 2010, during a conversation at the Manhattan coffee bar Sant Ambroeus, an unnamed collector asked his Sotheby’s key client manager (KCM)—only three years out of college—why some people did not pay sales tax when they bought art. That’s according to a lawsuit filed in November 2020 by ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, January 2021
This latest “Letter” features something rather out of the ordinary, a monster machine called the “Super Lion,” and an old French shoe and a reminder of Madame Guillotine. Here, too, you will find oak furnishings and a dog collar keeping company. There are ivory models produced as a guide to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)New Year’s Day Rings in with Jewelry at Nadeau’s
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Nadeau's Auction Gallery
Nadeau’s Auction Gallery in Windsor, Connecticut, began its annual New Year’s Day auction for 2021 with 203 lots of jewelry. Company president Eddie Nadeau said, “We always save our best jewelry all year to go into that particular sale. But this time, with ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, January 2021
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer’s premium when charged. We’re always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)“Net to You” Contract Spurs Lawsuit
At 5:45 p.m. on Sunday, October 27, 2018, at the TEFAF show at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, Hirschl & Adler Galleries sold a full-length portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart—the so-called Munro-Lenox portrait. The price was $12,000,000.
The venerable New York gallery didn’t own the 95" ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Gustav Stickley House Restoration Project Receives Grant
The Greater Syracuse Land Bank has received a $500,000 matching grant from the Department of Interior, National Park Service (NPS), funded through the Historic Preservation Fund and the Save America’s Treasures grant program, for the interior restoration of the Gustav Stickley House at 438 Columbus Avenue in Syracuse, New York.
Gustav ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Allis Ghim, CEO of Bidsquare
We are all spending much more time now in our houses and apartments because of COVID-19. Because we all might enjoy staring at someone else’s walls for a change, this column gives our readers an idea of what some of their colleagues, fellow collectors, and other readers surround themselves with ... (Read More)
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