LONDON – The history of Chinese arts and crafts is a long one. During the Neolithic period for example – it stretched from the 10th to the second millennium B.C. – China’s artist potters were making pottery incised or painted with stylish geometric and linear designs that, for the time, show an amazing level of invention. In contrast, our cavemen were chasing their next meal.
GARRISON, N.Y. – A rare painting of Civil War photographer Mathew Brady by the renowned portrait artist Charles Loring Elliott, a pre-Columbiam statuette of a pregnant woman, and a colorful circa-1910 art glass vase by the French maker LeGras will all come up for bid at an auction to be held by Louis J. Dianni LLC on Aug. 8-9.Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) – An exhibition of Ukrainian folk art inspired by an ancient ornamental painting tradition of home exteriors and interiors in central Ukraine is on view in New York City.Continue reading