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(Fragment)New Flea Market in Brooklyn
Joining its long-running flea markets in Dumbo and Chelsea, Brooklyn Flea is returning to North Brooklyn with BQ Flea, a new neighborhood market under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) for four Sundays in October—October 6, 13, 20, and 27—from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
With the goal of bridging four adjacent North ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Southern Pottery and Rustic Antiques at Ledbetter
Ledbetter Folk Art Auction Gallery, Gibsonville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Ledbetter Folk Art Auction Gallery
Until March 2025 all sales at Ledbetter Folk Art Auction Gallery will be online. The issue is inventory or rather overabundant inventory. Space previously reserved for seating is now a warehouse for multiple large collections. Phone and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)African American Art Auction
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
Now in its 17th year, Swann Galleries’ African American art department sold $3,154,557 worth of art that spanned 100 years in its October 3 sale. The department offered landscapes, still-life paintings, abstractions, drawings, sculpture, prints, and works in mixed media. Of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Naked Night at the Museum
Among the holdings of the Dorset Museum & Art Gallery in Dorchester, England, is a large collection of natural history. On September 17, it also had an au naturel collection—members of the British Naturists Society.
The British Naturists Society hosted a private event at the museum that allowed its members to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cabinet of Morbid Curiosities: The Richard Harris Collection
Potter & Potter Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Potter & Potter Auctions
“He was an eclectic collector who had a lot of stuff.” The comment came from Aron Packer, the director and specialist of fine and Outsider art for Potter & Potter Auctions in Chicago, as he commented on the person ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Please Read Carefully
Beneath the Surface
Life gets incrementally easier with kids. It is like the reverse of that apocryphal boiling frog story: things getting ever-so-slowly better—instead of worse—until one day you suddenly notice that they are better. (Yeah, yeah, don’t write to tell us how it’s going to start getting worse again now ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Elevated Art and 20th-Century Design
Toomey & Co., Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co. To grasp the impact of a two-layered sale held at Toomey & Co. in Chicago on October 1, one must first understand “the network.” Ergo, a brief tutorial is in order.
This particular network is a relatively new business entity that links ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Joel White
Joel White is a third-generation Mainer and antiques dealer who now lives in an 1830s brick farmhouse located on the same road in Waldoboro, Maine, where he grew up. “There used to be a brick factory down the road, and the clay for the brick came from the pond,” he ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Massachusetts Sale Lights Up to $6.5 Million Total
The September 28 and 29 auction at Fontaine’s Auction Gallery totaled just over $6.5 million from 1000 lots, according to the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, auction house. Tiffany Studios lighting and decorative arts objects dominated the sale, but there were other high-profile objects, called “unusual and exceptional” by the auction house. Three ... (Read More)
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(Auction)“We the People”: The U.S. Constitution and Articles of Confederation at Brunk Auctions
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
Record-breaking rainstorms followed by Hurricane Helene forced the delay of the planned September 28 sale of a rare copy of the 1787 United States Constitution at Brunk Auctions. Flooding in Asheville, North Carolina, and throughout western North Carolina destroyed entire towns and disrupted ... (Read More)
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