ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The outstanding lifetime collections of Richard and Diane Goldman and Gordon W. Fosburg will be auctioned the weekend of Oct. 2-4 by Showtime Auction Services. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide absentee and Internet live bidding all three days of the sale.
LONDON – No one really knows when puppetry began. Cave dwellers probably entertained themselves by making shapes from shadows cast on the walls by the light of their fires, while the ancient Greeks had a word for it, which meant “drawn by strings.”
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) – Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in western Michigan says it had its busiest summer season for attendance in its 20-year history. The Grand Rapids attraction announced Wednesday that it had about 280,000 visitors in total in the months of June, July and August.
BERLIN (AP) – Abstract compositions of black lines and rectangles filled with red, blue and yellow highlight a new Piet Mondrian exhibition in Berlin. But the show goes far beyond the Dutch artist’s iconic works, tracing his stylistic development from the beginning with early works featuring idyllic nature scenes with windmills, willow trees and lawns.
JERUSALEM (AP) – A reserve colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps who led an international hunt for looted antiquities from Iraq a decade ago said Wednesday that the West needs to deploy forces to protect Mideast archaeological sites from extremists like the Islamic State group.
BEVERLY, Mass. – Kaminski Auctions will presents an unreserved auction Sept. 13 featuring two exceptional collections of porcelain, glass and silver: the collection of Dorothea M. Beers a noted Palm Beach, Fla. dealer specializing in Continental porcelain and silver, and a large New Hampshire estate. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide absentee and Internet live bidding.