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/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/2009/who-shot-rock-roll-brooklyn-museum/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/who-shot-rock-roll-brooklyn-museum/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:56:09 +0000 Geo http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=3662 There’s a lot of excitement surrounding an appearance and performance by Blondie at the Brooklyn Museum tonight for the opening of the show “Who Shot Rock & Roll.” I just returned for a preview of the show and have to say it is very well arranged and presented. (I wonder why they are using & [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/who-shot-rock-roll-brooklyn-museum/feed/ 4 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/martha-stewart-brooklyn-flea/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/martha-stewart-brooklyn-flea/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:12:55 +0000 ewmiller http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=3630 “She’s over there, trying Pizzas,” my friend the clock dealer David Sokosh said when I arrived at the Brooklyn Flea in its Water Street location this afternoon. Martha Stewart was supposed to visit the Fort Greene location yesterday, but the rain kept her away. I half wondered if this was all an internet rumor to [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/martha-stewart-brooklyn-flea/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/jean-michel-basquiat-rip/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/jean-michel-basquiat-rip/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:38:49 +0000 Geo http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=3613 We had the opportunity to visit a few more of the graves of artists in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery today. Among them is the grave of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Placed in a row that looks as if it used to be a foot-path, we found momentos placed on the gravestone including a Basquiat stamp, a drawing, coins [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/jean-michel-basquiat-rip/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/mattise-as-a-printmaker/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/mattise-as-a-printmaker/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:50:35 +0000 Geo http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=3231 The Baltimore Museum of Art is presenting the first comprehensive exhibition on the printmaking of Henri Matisse. On view October 25, 2009 – January 3, 2010, Matisse as Printmaker unites the BMA’s extraordinary collection of Matisse prints with a traveling exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts, a non-profit arts organization, and the Pierre [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/mattise-as-a-printmaker/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/newark-museum-art-pottery/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/newark-museum-art-pottery/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:56:00 +0000 Hui http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=2951 Rookwood Pottery made by Carl Schmidt From Newark Museum: Artistic ceramics is not a new idea. After all, the finest decorated pottery in ancient Greece was both functional and artistic. The potteries in Renaissance Italy produced brilliant painterly vessels that were appreciated as art. Likewise, it is is hard to dismiss the brilliant enamel painting [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/newark-museum-art-pottery/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/whiskey-bottle-fetches-more-than-30k-at-auction/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/whiskey-bottle-fetches-more-than-30k-at-auction/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:52:09 +0000 Geo http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=2881 A medium chocolate amber California Clubhouse Whiskey bottle, made circa 1872-74 and one of only nine examples known, soared to $30,240 in an Internet and catalog auction held Aug. 10-21 by American Bottle Auctions (americanbottle.com). The bottle, highly prized by collectors, boasted a fancy monogram in the center, a gorgeous embossing pattern and a 9.5 [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/whiskey-bottle-fetches-more-than-30k-at-auction/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/harbor-and-home-online-and-at-winterthur/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/harbor-and-home-online-and-at-winterthur/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 17:05:17 +0000 Geo http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=1845 Brock Jobe narrates a really well-produced online gallery tour of the Harbor and Home display at Winterthur. The exhibit closes May 25, 2009. Click and listen.]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/harbor-and-home-online-and-at-winterthur/feed/ 0