http://www.urbanartantiques.com Thoughts from visiting galleries, museums, flea markets and antique shows Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:04:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/york-emerging-as-premiere-americana-show/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/york-emerging-as-premiere-americana-show/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:11:59 +0000 Sweeney http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=5830 The York Antiques Show managed by Melvin (Butch) Arion has become one of the important stops on the trail of followers of Americana, Country and Folk Art. There are other dealers there as well rounding out the market for rugs, ceramics and jewelry. The presence of dealers, Raccoon Creek, James Kilvington and Kelly Kinzle point [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/york-emerging-as-premiere-americana-show/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/the-sights-of-the-baltimore-antiques-show/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/the-sights-of-the-baltimore-antiques-show/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:52:50 +0000 UAA Team http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=5811 Descending the escalator, a line stretched through the lobby of the Baltimore Convention Center all the way to the exterior doors that opened onto Charles Street. It’s not often you see a line at an antique show these days and this one on the surface was a good sign. A closer look however revealed that [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/the-sights-of-the-baltimore-antiques-show/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/baltimore-comic-con-draws-15000/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/baltimore-comic-con-draws-15000/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:24:35 +0000 Amy G http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=5806 Once upon a time, gatherings of geeks would come together to celebrate the art form that they loved – comic books. Fans, some costumed as their favorite characters, would stream into the hall, excited to see their favorite creators. You could buy sketches from your favorite artist, or talk over a plot line with a [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/baltimore-comic-con-draws-15000/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/record-prices-smashed-in-heritage%e2%80%99s-latest-illustration-art-auction/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/record-prices-smashed-in-heritage%e2%80%99s-latest-illustration-art-auction/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:10:06 +0000 UAA Team http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=5793 After more than a solid year of dominating Heritage Auctions’ Illustration Art Auctions, Pin-up and Glamour Art, while still performing superbly, was forced to cede the spotlight on Aug. 17 to classic Pulp Art, as several icons of the genre burst into the spotlight, led by Hugh Joseph Ward’s The Evil Flame, Spicy Mystery Stories [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/record-prices-smashed-in-heritage%e2%80%99s-latest-illustration-art-auction/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/texas-traditions-heritage/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/texas-traditions-heritage/#comments Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:26:48 +0000 Geo http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=5765 Heritage Auctions was set up like a contemporary painting gallery this afternoon for the release of Texas Traditions: Contemporary Artists of the Lone Star State by Michael Duty & Susan Hallsten McGarry The walls of the front gallery at Slocum Street were lined with works by the 36 artists featured in the book. When we [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/texas-traditions-heritage/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/w-d-smith-photograph/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/w-d-smith-photograph/#comments Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:55:04 +0000 Hui http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=5701 I first have to apologize that in a previous post we reported our first visit to the Buchanan Antiques Market, which we just found out was actually Continental Show on the same weekend. We learned this from our yesterday’s visit to the real Buchanan Market, a monthly event held in either the Market Hall or [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/w-d-smith-photograph/feed/ 1 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/art-of-what-you-can-do-or-should-not-do-with-a-can/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/art-of-what-you-can-do-or-should-not-do-with-a-can/#comments Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:41:27 +0000 Geo http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=5684 It was seventy percent public relations and thirty percent art, but the thirty percent kept me long enough to take a quick look at thirty or so objects on display in the Dallas Galleria.  I had missed the opening for the Red Bull-sponsored Art of Can, but no matter I imagine the energy drink was [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/art-of-what-you-can-do-or-should-not-do-with-a-can/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/quilts-hold-value-remain-popular-says-dealer-marie-miller/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/quilts-hold-value-remain-popular-says-dealer-marie-miller/#comments Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:30:30 +0000 UAA Team http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=5660 Quilt dealer Marie Miller called to give us an update on the Vermont Antiques Dealer’s Association show. This was the first year for the show in Woodstock, Vermont, moved from its former location in Manchester, Vermont. Miller says she has done the show every year and met with success this year selling an array of [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/quilts-hold-value-remain-popular-says-dealer-marie-miller/feed/ 3 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/new-york-jewelry-and-watch-show/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/new-york-jewelry-and-watch-show/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:48:32 +0000 David Sokosh http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=5589 I attended the New York Antique Jewelry & Watch Show at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan on Friday, which was the first day of this four-day event. It was my first visit to the show, which is in its fourth year. I was excited to go to the exhibition because of my interest in antique [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/new-york-jewelry-and-watch-show/feed/ 1 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/the-glasgow-boys-revolutionaries-who-broke-the-victorian-mold/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/the-glasgow-boys-revolutionaries-who-broke-the-victorian-mold/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:10:42 +0000 UAA Team http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=5380 A major exhibition of works by the Glasgow Boys, the group of highly influential and internationally-renowned Scottish-based artists who on occasions enraged Victorian Britain, is to be held at The Fleming Collection in London September 14 to December 18. Most of the 50 paintings on show will come from The Fleming Collection’s own holdings but [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/the-glasgow-boys-revolutionaries-who-broke-the-victorian-mold/feed/ 1