December 27th, 2011 
UAA Team 
A Trademark Barkhouse Bros. & Co. Gold Dust Kentucky Bourbon bottle, one of the most popular western fifths and one of the finest known to exist, sold for $28,000 in an Internet and catalog auction held Dec. 9-18 by American Bottle Auctions. The bottle was the top seller of the 144 western whiskeys and historical [...]
December 23rd, 2011 ewmiller 
Each month I contribute an article to The New Colonist, a web magazine about sustainable urban living. This month, antiques and the green movement were on my mind when I wrote New Year’s Resolutions for a More Sustainable 2012. For the record, I believe “green” is a better reason to re-use goods in a broad sense. [...]
Posted in Antiques, Antiques Business 
Tags: Be Green, Buy Local, New Year's Resolutions, Sustainability 
No Comments » December 20th, 2011 UAA Team 
An exceedingly rare, ancient Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty solid nephrite jade bear, made between 475 B.C.-220 A.D. and exhibiting extensive calcification due to centuries of extended burial, sold for a little more than $8 million at a multi-estate auction held Dec. 10 by Florida’s Elite Decorative Arts. The nephrite (greenstone) bear was by far the [...]
Posted in Antiques, Asian Art, Auction Tags: Auction Florida, Chinese Antiques, Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty, Elite Auction, Jade Bear No Comments » December 19th, 2011 ewmiller 
Following a decision by the Philadelphia Antiques Show to allow items in the show created as recently as 1970, comes a press release from New York’s Metro Show about a new mantra for collectors and designers: no more boundaries. According to the release “collectors, design aficionados, and art-insiders will be treated to an astonishing array [...]
Posted in Antiques, Art, Show & Gallery Tags: Americana Week, Leigh Keno, Metro Show, Modernism, New York Antiques Show No Comments » December 18th, 2011 Lin 
The Texas town of Handley was established in 1876 and named after the confederate Major James Madison Handley. The city, a mere seven miles drive from downtown Fort Worth, was eventually annexed by cow town in 1946. Today, the small area called Historic Handley Village is famous for antique and furniture stores and other neighborhood [...]
December 18th, 2011 ewmiller 
The world we live in is often planned, pondered over and reviewed in our dreams while lying still, or sleeping in bed. Such a bed was placed as a nucleus in the new exhibit at RO2 Gallery in downtown Dallas. Around it hung messages of personal motivation and introspection. From there spun the web of [...]
December 18th, 2011 UAA Team 
A nude sketch of Lady Gaga by crooner Tony Bennett has gone viral (like much of what Lady Gaga is involved in). The Vancouver Sun reports that the 85-year-old Bennet released the portrait after they recorded “The Lady Is a Tramp.” The original charcoal drawing is being auctioned as a benefit for Gaga’s anti-bullying foundation, Born [...]
December 17th, 2011 ewmiller 
I was at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art to give a docent tour today and took another look at a work called Ridden Down by Frederic Remington. You can see a painting a dozen times and then finally connect to it, or connect to it in a new way. Today I noticed a [...]
Posted in Art, Museum Tags: American West, Amon Carter Museum, Cowboy Art, Frederic Remington, Ridden Down, Western Art No Comments » December 16th, 2011 Geo 
From antiques shows to museum exhibits, gallery talks and more, check out or new video feed. We’ve assembled a collection of videos that run in a stream similar to a tv station. If you would like to suggest a video to include, send the link to eric@urbanartantiques.com Click here to watch the feed, or click VIDEO [...]
December 16th, 2011 Pearl 
They reflected the superlative power of the artist to synthesize geographic and flora information; yet still there seemed to lack a kind of immediacy and emotional attachment. In a tightly controlled process for public picture making, by reigning subconscious and psychological state, Anne achieved a stunning degree of intellectual revelation of nature observed.
Posted in Antiques, Art, Artist, Show & Gallery Tags: Anne C Weary, Conte, Dallas, drawings, San Diego, texas, Torrey Pines, Valley House Gallery No Comments »
