A characteristic of Native-American pottery is the tradition of family potters. The art of handcrafting and firing clay objects has been passed down through generations, averting the danger of its dying out.
NEW YORK – Last Chance by LiveAuctioneers will sell a collection of more than 90 paintings by Charles Gassner (1915-1977) at an online auction on Friday, April 29, beginning at noon Eastern. LiveAuctioneers.com will facilitate absentee and Internet live bidding.
VINELAND, N.J. – Prices realized went off the rails at Bertoia’s $1.2 million auction of the Jerry and Nina Greene toy train collection. The select grouping of railroad toys had been amassed by the Philadelphia couple over several decades of global travel and shopping. The April 9th sale included 700 lots of European and American trains and accessories, with a special focus on Marklin, Bing and early US productions in the rare 2-inch gauge. Absentee and live online bidding was facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.
JERUSALEM (AP) – The grandchildren of one of the earliest Jewish victims of the Nazis are laying claim to a jewel of Israel’s top museum: the world’s oldest illustrated Passover manuscript.
NEW YORK (AP) – A New York City museum says Rembrandt’s earliest masterpiece will be exhibited in the U.S. for the first time.
SANTA ANA, Calif. – Don Presley will present antiques, collectibles and decorative items from upscale Southern California estates at an auction May 15. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.com.Continue reading
LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. – Rago Arts and Auction Center will conduct auctions of 19th/20th century American and European art and postwar/contemporary art on Saturday, May 7. The sales feature works fresh to market with many significant deaccessions from important collections.
DALLAS – The Dallas Museum of Art this week unveiled its renovated north entrance, which includes new access to the DMA’s main entrance, an outdoor lawn and dining experience, interior renovations to the Atrium, as well as the debut of the museum-commissioned sculpture Pas de Deux (Plaza Monument) by British artist Rebecca Warren.
The north entrance was designed by Dallas-based landscape architectural firms Studio Outside and Hocker Design Group and local architectural firm Morrison Dilworth + Walls.
The north entrance, renamed Eagle Family Plaza, was made possible by the generosity of benefactors Jennifer and John Eagle, who donated $3 million for the renovations, and the Nancy B. Hamon Estate, which gave an additional gift of $1.3 million for the project, for a total contribution of $4.3 million.
The renovation features an expansive new lawn area, which includes the creation of an outdoor exhibition space at the north entrance. The first commissioned work for this space is Pas de Deux (Plaza Monument), a 14-foot tall sculpture by Warren. The site-specific work, created in the United Kingdom, is Warren’s first commission by a U.S. museum and serves as the first in a series of rotating works by various artists highlighted in the new north lawn of the museum. Warren was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2006 and was elected as a member of the Royal Academy of Art in 2014.
The expanded Eagle Family Plaza design has fully opened the DMA Cafe to the exterior. Perimeter plantings along the northeast side of the building have been replaced by a steel pavilion and wooden decking to expand seating and dining options, including the addition of an outdoor food pavilion.
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) – Some 2,000 illegally trafficked elephant tusks and hundreds of finished ivory products erupted in a ball of fire Tuesday as Cameroonian authorities conducted what was believed to be one of the largest burnings of poached wildlife goods in African history.
ATLANTA, Ga. – A 15th century English Nottingham alabaster relief depicting the Resurrection of Christ, a rare 16th century hand-woven German Gothic figural tapestry panel, and an ink painting on silk of Mount Fuji by Japanese artist Yokoyama Taikan (1868-1958) will by auctioned by Ahlers & Ogletree Inc. April 30-May 1.