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(Show)The Philadelphia Show 2025
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
For more than 60 years, the Philadelphia Show has been a popular annual April event that always follows tax season. The 2025 show, held April 24-27, was affected by the chaos of trade wars caused by President Trump’s tariffs. “People were afraid to come to the show to be ... (Read More)
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(Auction)America’s Melting Pot Artists Take Top Honors at Slotin
Slotin Auction, Buford, Georgia
Photos courtesy Slotin Auction
merica is a melting pot, and this was clearly evident at Slotin Auction’s April 26 and 27 sale of work by self-taught artists. “For a long time, the art market has been homogenized. It’s the same Caucasian guys who were recognized, even in the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Brazilian Folk Painting Tops Maine Auction
Farrin’s Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine
“My grandmother bought it on a cruise in 1957,” said the consignor of a Brazilian folk painting that was the top lot at Farrin’s Country Auctions in Randolph, Maine, on April 26. “It’s been in my house, sometimes just leaning against a wall,” she said, sitting ... (Read More)
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(Show)April at the Liberty Antiques Festival
Liberty Antiques Festival, Staley, North Carolina
Remembering a developing hurricane that passed over the September 2024 Liberty Antiques Festival in rural Randolph County, North Carolina, regulars were a bit leery because of rain in the forecast for Friday, April 25. Instead, it was a gorgeous sunny day, and sales started promptly ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Getting More by Asking for Less
When asked by someone outside of the art and decorative arts world what museums to see in New York City, I always tell them about the American Folk Art Museum. “It’s fantastic, and it’s free,” is my stock recommendation.
“Access, Scale & Market Share,” a recent report by Remuseum, a think ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, May 2025
Stanley Whitney (b. 1946), untitled, 2020, gouache on paper. The Medford and Loraine Johnston collection, promised gift to the High Museum of Art. © Stanley Whitney. Photo courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
—Through May 25 —Atlanta, Georgia
Thinking Eye, Seeing Mind: The Medford and Loraine Johnston Collection at the High Museum ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bloody Massacre Sells for $200,000
Paul Revere’s engraving The Bloody Massacre is one of the most familiar images related to the American Revolution. The event depicted, commonly referred to as the Boston Massacre, took place in the evening of March 5, 1770, and is considered one of the seminal moments that solidified Colonial resistance to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Spirit of Spring: Modern American Art at Christie’s
Christie’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie’s
Female Modernists occupied some of the real estate in Christie’s 99-lot modern American art sale April 17 in New York City. The live auction, which attracted over two dozen attendees, totaled $14,228,382 and had an 84% sell-through rate. Christie’s reported that 18% of the buyers ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bierstadt’s Old Faithful Tops Decorative Arts Auction
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Auctions are unpredictable. Sales depend on estates that must be settled and downsizing by collectors who change their focus. In these times of economic and political chaos, consignors were cautious as they watched the middle market settle down to lower values and saw sectors once ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hilliard’s Eclectic Sale Lives Up to Its Name
Hilliard & Co., Madison, Virginia
Photos courtesy Hilliard & Co.
One of the realities of the post-COVID-19 online antiques auction world is the move toward targeted sales. We now see an increasing number of sales that consist of lots grouped so as to appeal to specific genres or collecting categories—Asian ceramics, 20th-century ... (Read More)
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