January 31st, 2011 
UAA Team 
The Miami National Antiques Show may be remembered best for me as the time I began to notice and learn about Sheffield plate. This is thanks to a Florida dealer with a British accent named John Forster. It wasn’t because of Forster exactly that I noticed a piece of Sheffield plate at the show, but [...]
January 31st, 2011 Hui 
It has become a tradition for us to combine the trips to Bonhams and Spanierman Gallery together. During Americana week, Bonhams had an American and English Furniture & Decorative Arts sale and Maritime Painting & Decorative Arts sale. The best, in our mind, were displayed in the lobby of the lower level. A grand Steinway [...]
Posted in Antiques, Art, Artist, Auction, Furniture, Show & Gallery 
Tags: Albert Pinkham Ryder, American tonalism, Birge Harrison, Bonhams, Bruce Crane, David Cleveland, Edward Simmons, Fitzhugh, Florence Griswold Museum, Henry Blank, New York Americana Week, Steinway, Washington Memorial Clock 
No Comments » January 31st, 2011 UAA Team 
I guess this may mean the stars are over antiques. Over the weekend of Feb. 5-6, Don Presley Auctions will liquidate the remaining inventory of southern California’s renowned Steven-Thomas Antiques and Interiors, which is closing its doors. Founded in 1979 by brothers-in-law Steven Shedd and Thomas Silk, the prestigious Orange County antiques and restoration firm [...]
Posted in Antiques, Antiques Business, Auction Tags: John Wayne, Stars, Steven-Thomas Antiques No Comments » January 28th, 2011 Hui 
The American Antiques Show, presented by the American Folk Art Museum, started from Wednesday, Jan 19. By the time we visited the show on late Friday afternoon, we have found many things we would like to take a close look had a red dot beside them. Unlike other shows such as the Winter Antiques Show [...]
January 25th, 2011 UAA Team 
On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, at the Getty Center, December 7, 2010 —April 24, 2011, Photography from the New China displays a selection of Chinese photographs produced since the 1990s, when People’s Republic leader Deng Xiaoping introduced the current period of Opening and Reform. Photography from the New China is shown concurrently with Felice Beato: [...]
January 25th, 2011 UAA Team 
We just received some photos from the New York Ceramics Fair and are happy to share them as part of our continued coverage of Antiques/Americana Week in New York.
January 25th, 2011 Hui 
On the first morning of the Antiques at the Armory show at 26th Street and Park Avenue, the crowd seemed undeterred by another snowfall the night before. Unlike the American Antiques Show presented by the American Folk Art Museum, in which most dealers came from Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut area; or the Winter Antiques Show, [...]
Posted in Antiques, Collecting, Show & Gallery Tags: Americana, Antiques at the Armory, david sokosh, Renaissance, Rococo, Signs, Vintage, Winter Antiques Show 2 Comments » January 25th, 2011 Geo 
Reports came out today that indicate the century-old Jersey City Museum may have closed for good due to lack of funding. A board member told the museum the artwork is secured and professionally cared for. Apparently the museum is behind on mortgage payments and owes some $3 million for a renovation. Curiously the board member [...]
January 25th, 2011 UAA Team 
Number of Arts Organizations Continues to Increase Despite Poor Economic Climate Americans for the Arts, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts, announced the first update to its National Arts Index today, the annual measure of the health and vitality of the arts industries in the United States. The 2010 Index offers the [...]
January 24th, 2011 UAA Team 
The Royal Museum of Cornwall will hold a major retrospective of the work of the forgotten British Post-Impressionist painter Sir Claude Francis Barry (1883-1970) from the 5th of February to the 4th of June 2011. ‘A Master Revealed: A retrospective of the work of Sir Claude Francis Barry’ brings together an exciting and intriguing range [...]
Posted in Art, Museum, Show & Gallery Tags: Royal Museum of Cornwall, Sir Claude Francis Barry No Comments »
