The Art Thief by Noah Charney
On Art and Connoisseurship by Max J. Friedlander
Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts by Nina Fletcher Little
Creating Picturesque America by Sue Rainey
Chinese Export Porcelain: East to West by Shirley Ganse
Andrew Carnegie by David Nasawewmiller | January 15, 2010
The Logan House was one of several really great things that used to be there, there being my hometown of Altoona, PA. The Logan house was a hotel that hosted the Loyal War Governors’ Conference, an often overlooked event in the history of the American Civil War.
A firm supporter of President Lincoln, Pennsylvania Governor Andrew [...]
Geo | January 7, 2010
An exhibit that closed January 3 at the University of Michigan Museum of Art Beginning will move to the Dallas Museum of Art for a February 21 opening. The landmark exhibition exploring the influential and profound relationship between photographers and painters who lived and worked along the Normandy coast in France during the mid-19th century. [...]
Geo | November 12, 2009
Five hundred exhibitors and with any luck thousands of antique-lovers will converge on Pier 94 in New York this weekend for Stella’s 2009 Pier Antiques Show. Merchandise will be found grouped by type, classic and formal; Americana, decorative arts and collectibles; 20th century Modern and Fashion Alley. There are shuttle buses from the Port Authority, Grand [...]
Hui | October 22, 2009
Swann Galleries is having an auction sale on photographs today. In the preview I have noticed that photographs were arranged not by the lot numbers, but grouped by scenes. Some pictures are beautiful, such as those of Ansel Adams or Harry Callahan, but I have never grown into followers of those artsy photographers. Interesting photos [...]
ewmiller | September 27, 2009
Walking through the galleries of photographs of America by Swiss-born Robert Frank, Lin looked at me and said “he doesn’t like America.” As an American, looking at the photos, I didn’t get the idea that Frank didn’t like America. I saw America, probably not the way he saw it, or the way anyone sees it, [...]
ewmiller | September 16, 2009
The first time I ever consciously thought about Harvey Milk was at a party in San Francisco. I was talking with someone old enough to remember Milk and mentioned that I was from Altoona. It turns out my hometown was mentioned by Milk in a speech to be played in the event of his death. [...]
Hui | January 23, 2009
Thus a simple series of clicks from a Nikon D70 camera and picking the best one to print out from online stores like shutterfly, at its best, leads to just beautiful pictures. Pictures are mass produced, thus can only be consumed; while artworks are toiled, thus set forth to be preserved. [...]
Geo | January 4, 2009
In 1815, most Americans were the subject of “a tyranny of distance,” as writer Daniel Walker Howe put it at an event this weekend sponsored by Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetary. Howe is author of “What Hath God Wrought,” a book that chronicles the changes between 1815 and 1845. Many of the men who brought those changes into being are buried in Green-Wood.
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