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(Issue Story)Back to the Beginning
Beneath the Surface
Twenty years ago in February, we were going to Nashville to plug an auction house. To be honest, we had no idea what we were doing in any strategic sense. Literally, someone just said, “You should go to the shows in Nashville. Here’s a credit card!” The goal ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Found Object Show/art without intent
New York City
The Found Object Show/art without intent is a show about patina, said Adam Irish of Old as Adam, an antiques dealer from Providence, Rhode Island, who manages the event.
Found objects were not intentionally made by the maker to be “art.” However, with time, the objects take on beauty, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Natural History, Maps, Books, and Furniture
Arader Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Arader Galleries
More than 50 years ago, in his junior year at Yale University, Graham Arader began selling maps from his dorm room. Eventually he discovered the works of John James Audubon and Pierre-Joseph Redouté, and now he has the world’s largest inventory of rare ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Era for American Ceramics
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
“This was our third-highest-grossing sale to date,” stated Mark Zipp of Crocker Farm following the family operation’s spring sale, which made $1,753,470 (including buyers’ premiums). There were 525 registered bidders for the spring auction. The absentee-only sale ran from March 27 through April 5 ... (Read More)
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(Show)Nor’easter Fails to Dampen Maine Show
Scarborough High School Vintage and Antique Show & Sale, Scarborough, Maine ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Homegrown Show Keeps Growing
Greater Rochester Spring Antique Show, Henrietta, New York
After a few inches of white stuff on the ground the night before and after a earthquake hit another part of the state about 200 miles away but before the big total eclipse (which was covered by clouds), the Greater Rochester Spring Antique ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dave, Lanier, and Friends in Georgia
Cagle Auction Company, Bogart, Georgia
Photos courtesy Cagle Auction Company
Located just outside of Athens, the town of Bogart, Georgia, at the base of the foothills of the Appalachians, is home to Cagle Auction Company. Rivers and creeks in this area of the Piedmont are rich with the clay deposits essential for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Director of Bayou Bend
Dr. Daniel Kurt Ackermann has been named director of the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, the house museum for American decorative arts of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH).
Dr. Ackermann comes to Bayou Bend after a career of 16 years at Old Salem Museums & Gardens and the Museum ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Ownership of Fiddlers Antiques Show
The Fiddlers Antiques Show in Nashville, Tennessee, has been sold to Mark and Jill Mattingly of Chrisman, Illinois. The long-running event, which takes its name from the Fiddlers Inn motel where dealers sold from their rooms, had most recently been owned by Bill and Kay Puchstein since 2020. The change ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Sale of African American Art
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
For its April 4 sale of African American art, Swann Galleries offered 239 lots of paintings, watercolors, prints, photography, and sculpture and featured a special evening session called “Art for Life” of contemporary works sold to benefit the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.
The sale ... (Read More)
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