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(The Art of Marketing)The Wisdom of a Cobbler's Son
by David Vazdauskas
Every so often there are people who touched our lives in one way or another many years ago whose wisdom stays with us. The wisdom of one such man continues to stay relevant in the marketing world in which I live. His lessons may never have been intended ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Marketing Movements: The Guide
by David Vazdauskas
In the four-year history of this column it had never occurred to me to take its title literally; that is, to look at marketing not as an art but rather as art. More precisely, to try to think of marketing strategies as movements in the same way that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Lawsuits and Charges of Unpaid Consignment Sales Trouble Salander-O'Reilly Galleries
Lawsuits and Charges of Unpaid Consignment Sales Trouble Salander-O'Reilly Galleriesby David HewettThe art world buzz over the Berry-Hill Galleries bankruptcy has quieted now that it's been almost a full year and a half since the initial Chapter 11 filing. All of the necessary loans to pay off creditors have been ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Beanes Bloom in Waterville
Beane's Antiques & Photography, Waterville, MaineBeanes Bloom in Watervilleby Mark SiscoWe once called David and Becky Beane the "seven-year locusts of auctioneers." Every seven years they stick their heads out and make some noise. Although it hasn't been quite seven years since their last auction in August 2002, the time ... (Read More)
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(Feature)All Toys (and Trains) Aboard Sale Steams to $1.8 Million
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New JerseyAll Toys (and Trains) Aboard Sale Steams to $1.8 Millionby Dick FrizIt started as a beclouded, frosty spring weekend, April 27-29, but undeterred attendees at Bertoia Auctions in Vineland, New Jersey, quickly warmed up to the occasion. After the last toy trains had left the station ... (Read More)
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(Show)Blue Ribbon Show: Right Day, Right Weather, Not Enough Visitors
Contoocook, New HampshireBlue Ribbon Show: Right Day, Right Weather, Not Enough Visitorsby David HewettOn Saturday, June 2, the third annual Blue Ribbon Antique Show was held at the Hopkinton State Fairgrounds in Contoocook, New Hampshire. It appeared to the participating dealers, members of the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association, that ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dixon Painting Tops Auction
Bonhams & Butterfields, Los Angeles and San Francisco, CaliforniaDixon Painting Tops Auctionby Alice KaufmanBonhams & Butterfields' paintings specialist Scot Levitt called his $4,169,700 California and American paintings auction, held May 1 in Los Angeles and San Francisco, "very good, but there were more buy-ins than I'd wanted." Nevertheless, "Western art ... (Read More)
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(Show)California Country
Los Altos, CaliforniaCalifornia Countryby Alice KaufmanMarie Croft, one of the 59 exhibitors at the June 10 California Country antiques show in Los Altos, California, said that like her fellow exhibitors, she was selling "memories and nostalgia." Both were thick on the ground at the show, which, as always, also featured ... (Read More)
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(Show)Wooing Younger Buyers at Christie
Dundas, OntarioWooing Younger Buyers at Christieby John NorrisAll prices in Canadian funds (rounded U.S. funds in parentheses)In the April 23 issue of the New Yorker, Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, was quoted about "the way we visit museums today, all the families with kids." ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Auction: "They Went Nuts"
Christie's, New York CityAmerican Paintings Auction: "They Went Nuts"by Ann BermanAfter spending over $55 million at Sotheby's the preceding day, insatiable American art collectors stampeded to Christie's on May 24, where the pickings were considerably more lush, and proceeded to spend over $55 million more."They went nuts," said New York ... (Read More)
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