UAA Team | February 19, 2010

Black History Month gives reasons, if one were to be needed, to celebrate the art of African-Americans and provides an overview at New York’s galleries and auction houses. Two of those exhibits are being held at Swann and Babcock Galleries. The one artist that has a prominent position in both exhibits is Edward Mitchell Bannister.
Known [...]
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Tags: Babcock Gallery, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Swann Gallery
Geo | February 15, 2010

Bitter brutality and cruel caricature alternate with respectful revelations and positive portrayals of the status of African Americans. It may be said that all portrayals become betrayals in revealing the motivations and prejudices of their creator, and the images in this exhibition offer telling insights into the prevailing notions of the period. Each work [...]
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Tags: Babcock Galleries, Edward Savage, George Washington, Lucretia Cordelia DeGrasse, Tess Sol Schwab
Geo | February 4, 2010

In a few short weeks I’ll be relocated to Texas and far from the Met, Guggenheim, New York Historical Society, Newark Museum, Winter Antiques Show and all of the other art and culture haunts that have come to know me in New York City.
It will be a change for sure, but look forward to discovering [...]
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Geo | January 29, 2010

The International Poster Center will offer more than 400 original vintage posters from the latter half of the 20th century in its second Modern Poster Auction. Featuring posters from around the world, this show explores the unbridled creativity that defined graphic advertising from the 1950s onward. All items are on view February 1 – February [...]
Category: Collecting, Show & Gallery |
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Tags: A.M. Cassandre, Al Hirschfeld, Alex Katz, Alexander Calder, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Ben Shahn, Bernard Villemot, Bill Graham & the Fillmore West, Buster Keaton, Celestino Piatti, Charlie Chaplin, Che Guevarra, Cuba, David Byrd, David Singer, E. McKnight Kauffer, Edward Gorey, Elvis, Frank Zappa, Fu Manchu, Gary Snyder, Gitanes, Gunter Rambow, Gunther Kieser, Hans Erni, Henryk Tomaszewski, Herbert Leupin, Herman Miller, horse racing, Houdini, International Poster Center, Ivan Chermayeff, Jan Lenica, Japanese Mod, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Eula, Lee Conklin, Nixon, Paul Davis, Pierre Fix-Masseau, Raymond Savignac, Razzia, Richard Avedon, Rick Griffin, Ricky Jay, Saul Steinberg, Seymour Chwast, Stanley Mouse, Tadanori Yokoo., the Cannes Film Festival, the IRA, the Marx Brothers, the Moscow Olympics, the Polish Cyrk, the Rolling Stones, The Supremes, Tomi Ungerer, Tomoko Miho, Victor Moscoso, Vietnam, Wes Wilson, Woody Allen
Geo | January 26, 2010

It took a while, but I finally was able to visit the Winter Antiques Show. The $20 admission cost seems like a lot to dish out, especially when re-entry costs another $20.
I’ve been to a number of high-end shows, among them the Armory Show and the Philadelphia Antiques Show and I expected something similar from [...]
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Tags: armorial, China, Philadelphia Antiques Show, wine glasses, Winter Antiques Show
UAA Team | January 25, 2010

The Right Angle: Fun first, passion second.
Regardless of the economy, the prospects for the antiques business would not look bright without extending its customer base to younger generations. But is there a sure-fire approach?
First of all, I strongly disagree that younger generations would not develop interests in antiques until they grow older. Most of [...]
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Sophie Fuller | January 25, 2010

I’ve just returned from visiting several of the antique shows during Antiques Week in NY, where I was pleasantly surprised by the American Antiques Show at the Metropolitan Pavilion (see photo at link below). Having believed for some time that the ability to attract a new generation of collectors lies in adapting more modern merchandising [...]
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Hui | January 23, 2010

On the second day of Antiques in Charlottesville strong sales of furniture were noted. This seemed to be a a very welcome and unexpected event. Some visitors came from yesterday’s NBC Channel 29 news. Here is a slide show of our photo coverage from the exhibition.
With the generous help from the dealers in Antiques in [...]
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Geo | January 18, 2010

When Salem, Massachusetts merchant Elias Hasket Derby, the owner of the first New England vessel to trade directly with China, sent his son John off to college he would send him in style.
Derby hired John Cogswell, one of Boston’s leading cabinetmakers, to build John a chest on chest for his room at Harvard College. [...]
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Tags: Antiques Show, Bostob, Charlottesville, Elias Hasket Derby, John Cogswell, Melrose & Duddy
Geo | January 11, 2010

Will Paulsen, a renowned expert in period furniture and fine arts, will guide a group of his former students, who have taken his classes at the University of Virginia, through the exhibits at Antiques in Charlottesville. That event is taking place January 22-24, 2010 at the Holiday Inn at 1901 Emmet Street.
“It’s an up-close-and-personal tour,” [...]
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Tags: Antiques in Charlottesville, Antiques Show, Melrose & Duddy, University of Virginia, UVA, Will Paulsen