June 25th, 2011 
Regina 
MEXICO CITY. What kind of art does the richest man in the world spend his money on? Well, Carlos Slim has let us in on the secret. The new Museo Soumaya in Mexico City is not only the most impressive building I’ve seen of late – its skin is silver disks and it rises like [...]
Posted in Antiques, Antiques Business, Architecture, Art, Artist, Museum 
Tags: Carlos Slim, Mexico City, Museo Soumaya 
No Comments » June 24th, 2011 UAA Team 
Paintings by Wu Guangzhong, one of China’s most important contemporary artists, headline the biggest and most valuable sale to date at Surrey’s premier auctioneers Ewbank Clarke Gammon Wellers. The three-day Summer auction is on June 29, 30 and July 1. Leading the sale are six works on paper by Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010) from the private [...]
June 22nd, 2011 ewmiller 
It’s easy to get hung up on just what is and isn’t an antique. But it may have little if anything to do with how desirable something is. It’s also easy to play the role of arbiter and decide just what should be in an antique show and what shouldn’t. These are topics that never [...]
Posted in Antiques, Antiques Business Tags: 20th Century, Antiques, Boomer, Buyers, Deco, Gen X, Generation, Mid-Century, Millennial, Modern No Comments » June 19th, 2011 ewmiller 
During our Vintage Yard sale this weekend we heard the constant dreaded word “downsizing.” It seems everyone is downsizing, but they still like to shop- or else why are they at the yard sale? Actually sales at the yard sale were pretty good. Lots of smaller items sold, even some plates and glassware. The furniture, [...]
June 14th, 2011 UAA Team 
US Antique Shows , a major producer of antique shows in North America, reported the highest attendance ever, with a 38 percent increase over last year’s event, at its 17th Annual Las Vegas Antique Jewelry & Watch Show which took place at The Paris Hotel Las Vegas from June 2-5th. The Las Vegas Antique Jewelry [...]
June 14th, 2011 UAA Team 
A monumental circa-1890 R.J. Horner figural carved mahogany 12-piece dining room set – consisting of a dining table, sideboard, china cabinet, server and set of eight dining room chairs – soared to $100,300 at an Exceptional Cataloged Antique Auction held on Saturday, May 21, by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, at the firm’s showroom in Pittsfield. The [...]
June 9th, 2011 UAA Team 
The historic antebellum home in Hamilton, Miss., known as Cedarwycke Plantation, plus its lavish furnishings, will be sold at an on-site auction slated for Saturday, June 18. The property is located at 40310 U.S. Highway 373 in Hamilton, located in north Mississippi, near Tennessee and midway between Little Rock, Ark., and Huntsville, Ala. The auction [...]
Posted in Antiques, Art Tags: Cedarwycke Plantation, Greek Revival, Hamilton, Henry Wombough, Mississippi, Stevens Auction No Comments » June 8th, 2011 UAA Team ![By Joey Gannon from Pittsburgh, PA (Edwards) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](http://www.urbanartantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/John_Edwards_3._September_2007_in_Pittsburgh-300x200.jpg "John_Edwards,_3._September_2007_in_Pittsburgh")
Articles published this week suggest 2008 vice presidential Candidate John Edwards received $700,000 or more from Rachel Mellon, which he allegedly used to cover up an affair during that year’s campaign. A representative of Mellon, who wasn’t named but later identified as Person C in the indictment, told the New York Times the money was [...]
June 8th, 2011 ewmiller 
Inside the Grapevine Antiques Mall It’s not a question exactly. Of course you want to stay in business, but if you’re like a lot of other dealers out there you’re finding that stuff just isn’t moving. Everyone is downsizing. Furniture and glassware is gathering dust. How long do you have to look at this stuff? [...]
Posted in Antiques, Antiques Business Tags: Antiques, Clothing, Furniture, generation y, Grapevine Antiques Mall, Millennials No Comments » June 4th, 2011 Regina 
Canajoharie is a sleepy upstate town in the Mohawk Valley that once boasted the best hops fields around and big industry. It was home to, among others, the Mohawks, Susan B. Anthony, a historian/teacher/artist named Rufus A. Grider and a drifter/day laborer/ artist named Fritz Vogt. Settled between the Adirondacks and Catskill mountains, the [...]
Posted in Antiques, Antiques Business, Architecture, Art, Artist, Collecting, Museum, Show & Gallery Tags: Arkell museum, folk art, Fritz Vogt, New York State, Rufus A. Grider No Comments »
