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(Fragment)Financial Reform Legislation and the Art Market
by Daniel GrantThe financial reform legislation currently before Congress may require the usually secretive art financing companies and auction houses to make public their loan agreements to would-be art buyers, according to congressional staffers for Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) and Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT), as well as outside lawyers who ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Top Ten Reasons Young People Should Buy Antiques
The Young Collectorby Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondSometimes in life you become an expert by default. This can be a useful skill, especially in terms of parenting, when anything, even complete non sequiturs like "Santa Claus likes broccoli," can bluff the opposition if said with enough conviction and an air ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Victor Weinblatt, South Hadley, Massachusetts
by Frank DoneganVictor Weinblatt is shown standing in front of a circa 1890 midwestern carnival game wheel. It's red, yellow, black, and white. The spots on the "dominoes" are thumbtacks. It's $4850.Gosh. For the second time in three months, we're writing about a Harvard guy in this space. Who knew ... (Read More)
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(Feature)What Does It Cost to Win a Lawsuit Concerning Art?
by David HewettOn April 8 Roger L. Hunt, chief judge for the United States District Court, District of Nevada, ruled that Judy Goffman Cutler was "the true owner of the painting" by Norman Rockwell titled Russian Schoolroom.We've covered the story before, about how art dealer Jack Solomon sued Cutler, who ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Software for Antiques Malls
Computer Column #259by John P.
Reid, e-mail: [email protected] reader in Connecticut asked for suggestions about software for her group shop. I realized that this important topic has not been covered here for four years.
Managers of group shops, antiques malls, and co-ops have an enormous paperwork burden. Computers can save ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Carving a Niche with Its Largest Sale So Far
Repousse to the max, this Baltimore coffee and tea service with castles in relief was marked by 20th-century maker Schofield Co. and brought $7945. Case photo.The most important furniture lot in the sale was this cherry press that came out of Horseshoe Bend Plantation in< grainger county in eastern tennessee. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Harnett Biennial of American Prints
The 2010 Harnett Biennial of American Prints is the ninth competitive national exhibition organized by the University of Richmond Museums. Open to all forms of prints, the exhibition is presented as a celebration and examination of contemporary printmaking by artists throughout the United States. The Harnett Biennial will be on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auction and Show Worlds Collide in Santa Fe and Chicago
by Lita Solis-CohenAt the second annual SOFA West: Santa Fe, a leading contemporary decorative arts and design fair in Santa Fe, New Mexico, held July 8-11, a large banner in the booth of dealers Garth Clark and his partner Mark Del Vecchio called for consignments to the upcoming 20th-century contemporary ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Finder's Fee Lawsuit Filed in Maine over Million-Dollar Map
A Virginia collector bought the map of the siege that was prepared ten days after the Battle of Yorktown by French Lieutenant Colonel Jean Baptiste Gouvion (1747-1792). It consists of three sheets of paper joined together and has suffered from some minor condition problems such as small tears and holes ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Will Norman Schaut Do It Again?
by Lita Solis-Cohen"Back in 1986 when Norman Schaut called his Atlantique City show management company Brimfield Associates, we laughed and said, 'How can he do that?' But he did it. Atlantique City was like Brimfield-without the mud and without the rain. It had a glorious run. Now it looks like ... (Read More)
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