NEW YORK – The Metropolitan Museum of Art welcomed a record number of visitors – 6.7 million – during the fiscal year that ended on June 30. This is the highest number of visitors since The Met began tracking admission statistics more than 40 years ago.
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Charleston Estate Auctions will present The Summer Auction – a live online auction on Aug. 28 beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. The auction offers notable fine art from the private collection of Gerald “Jerry” Marterer, author of Paris 201; exceptional items from a Charlotte Street residence; a lifetime Beaufort collector; as well as the estate of a Litchfield, Connecticut, antique dealer.
LYNBROOK, N.Y. – Original Sunday page comic art from the 1930s for Flash Gordon, Popeye and Krazy Kat will be a taste of what bidders will be treated to at Philip Weiss Auctions’ next big sale on Thursday, Sept. 8, in the firm’s showroom at 74 Merrick Road. Sold will be more than 600 lots of comics, comic art, animation, illustration art, sports items, movie memorabilia and more.
NEW YORK – Images of famous artists, actors and writers – made by some of the top photographers of the 20th century – are featured in a Jasper52 online auction of photogravures to be held Aug. 21.
Absentee bidding on this no reserve auction will be exclusively through LiveAuctioneers. Bidding on all lots begins at $1.
After almost 30 years on West 23rd Street, New York City’s beloved Tekserve is closing its retail store. And on Tuesday, August 23rd, Roland Auctions NY will disperse the Tekserve Collection with a nearly 500-lot auction. With such a cherished New York City landmark closing it’s doors, and with the unique memorabilia and collection that the retail establishment possessed, it’s no wonder that the Internet is freaking out. Below is a round-up of some of the best highlights thus far:
you could literally stock up on things from this auction and make me happy for every birthday forever. https://t.co/J5zxW9nRgg
— hashtagLUKELUCAS (@lukelucas) August 18, 2016
Man, @Tekserve was one of my favorite spots in #NYC. I’m glad they will still exist, but seeing this makes me sad https://t.co/Dz7C9aXPYI
— Jason Whitman (@jasonwhitman) August 19, 2016
Of interest to all my Apple nerd friends: Tekserve’s Mac Museum is up for auction. https://t.co/5rmmfDmr2S
— Dan Dickinson (@Remy) August 18, 2016
Goodbye, Tekserve—it was nice being your neighbor. https://t.co/pK9VwzXRUj
— The New School (@TheNewSchool) August 17, 2016
Also, I should note that their liquidation auction is the only one I’ve ever seen to include a wasps’ nest. https://t.co/XiqB45ExUG
— David Yee (@tangentialism) August 16, 2016
Tekserve’s last day is 8/15. You can take a piece home–even the antique Coke machine is up for grabs. https://t.co/XWa9jIYWRS
— Jeremiah Moss (@jeremoss) August 9, 2016
Famed @Tekserve to close?! Historic store items to be auctioned?!? #ShutTheFrontDoor https://t.co/TofaD5Ju9d
— Scott Laine (@iamlaine) August 19, 2016
This selection of electronics; vintage computers, audio & video equipment, that is up for auction is crazy. https://t.co/tNYi1fmKco
— Paul Weinstein (@pdweinstein) August 19, 2016
We’ll keep updated this list with more #TekserveReactions. And of course, to own a piece of your own Tekserve history, view the fully illustrated catalog and register to bid absentee or live on LiveAuctioneers.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – The second-oldest confirmed shipwreck in the Great Lakes, an American-built, Canadian-owned sloop that sank in Lake Ontario more than 200 years ago, has been found, a team of underwater explorers said Wednesday.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) – The Fort Wayne Museum of Art has purchased a chandelier created by glass artist Dale Chihuly.
The piece is called Lily Gold Chandelier and is made of more than 100 hand-blown glass tendrils. Museum Chief Operating Officer Amanda Martin tells The (Fort Wayne) Journal Gazette the chandelier has a market value of more than $400,000, but says the museum did not pay that much for it in an auction. She declined to disclose the cost.
The museum has displayed Chihuly’s work in the “Dale Chihuly: The George Stroemple Collection” in 2002, and again for the 2013 “Secret Garden” exhibition, which opened in conjunction with the museum’s inaugural Summer of Glass exhibit.
Chihuly’s glass pieces are included in more than 200 museum collections around the globe.
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BIRMINGHAM, Mich. (AP) – A 1967 Chevrolet Camaro is being added to the National Historic Vehicle Register.
Historic Vehicle Association president Mark Gessler told The Detroit News that it will become the 15th car on the list during a news conference in Birmingham on Wednesday.
“It’s a very big honor,” said Corey Lawson, who bought the car in 2009 after seeing it for sale on online auctioneer site eBay. “It’s reserved for the most historic of the historic vehicles.”
Lawson and his son, Logan, restored it using original parts.
Author Philip Borris later uncovered the original factory paperwork, which verified the car was the first Camaro made with a vehicle identification number, or VIN, of N100001. Gessler said the association worked with the Lawsons for more than a year to confirm and verify their materials and conduct independent research.
The association found that the car was owned by a Chevy dealer and passed through a handful of owners before being drag-raced in the 1980s.
“It’s one of the greatest stories that’s never been told,” Corey Lawson said.
Gessler said its materials will be archived with the Library of Congress.
“It was definitely crazy how it blew up and how we just stumbled on something amazing and the memories that we’re able to have, working with everyone to kind of unearth history that had been lost,” Logan Lawson said. “It was a great experience to be a part of.”
The Lawsons have found 10 of the 49 hand-built Camaros made at GM’s Norwood, Ohio, plant. The family owns five of them.
The addition to the register comes ahead of Saturday’s Woodward Dream Cruise, an annual Detroit-area celebration of classic car culture. It draws tens of thousands of classic and vintage cars and hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts to Woodward Avenue between Detroit and Pontiac.
Chevrolet is celebrating its 50th anniversary at this year’s event.
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MT. CRAWFORD, Va. – Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates’ first annual textiles and sewing auction on July 16 was a big success on many levels. Consisting of 404 lots, it was a small sale in comparison to most other auctions conducted by the firm. The offerings came from over 40 consigners and included material deaccessioned by the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts and George Washington’s Mount Vernon.
SAN FRANCISCO – PBA Galleries will offer over 200 lots of original artworks, prints and books on Aug. 25. Highlights of the auction include a sizable collection of etchings and lithographs by Max Beckman, an original watercolor along with several lithographs by George Grosz, paintings by Maurice Braun, Edgar Payne, Christian Jorgensen and other California artists, an original Madeline illustration by Ludwig Bemelmans, and the working archive of Baltimore artist Aaron Sopher.