Pokemon Go Attracts Museum Visitors, Best Book Shops in US, and More Fresh News

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Image courtesy of Portland Museum of Art

Image courtesy of Portland Museum of Art

 

News and updates from around the arts and auction community:

  • Pikachu, meet Winslow Homer. The Portland Museum of Art in Maine is getting its art collection out into the community with the help of Pokemon GO. [Read more from the Portland Museum of Art]
  • Collectors of rare books like to keep their favorite sources to themselves, but we have an exclusive insider’s list of the country’s best booksellers to share with you. [Read more from LiveAuctioneers]
  • Ferrari is building one final LaFerrari Coupe – #500 – and will auction it off to benefit Italy’s earthquake victims. It could sell for much more than the manufacturer’s suggested price, since the run was only supposed to be 499 cars. [Read more from AutoWeek]
  • Here’s an opportunity that doesn’t some knocking every day. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is auctioning 700 pieces of Chinese ceramics from its collection. The timeline is from the Song through Qing Dynasties. [Read more from Town & Country magazine]

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Kaminski’s Sept. 11 Fine Art Auction features Calder, Mitchell, other important artists

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BEVERLY, Mass. – Kaminski Auctions will present its first Fine Art auction of the fall season on Sunday, 11, 2016, with absentee and Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers.com.

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Provincetown museum gifted with 7 Dickinson paintings

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PROVINCETOWN, Mass. – Seven paintings by Edwin Dickinson were recently donated to the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) by Daniel W. Dietrich II in Philadelphia. This unprecedented acquisition catapults PAAM’s holdings of one of Provincetown’s most celebrated artists into highly significant territory. The museum will reveal the paintings, spanning 1914 to 1944, to the public in a free reception on Friday, September 2 at 8pm.

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8,200 bidders register via LiveAuctioneers for Ahlers & Ogletree Aug. 27-28 auction

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Handsome early 19th-century mahogany tall-case clock made by Jacob Eby (1776-1828) of Manheim, Pa., $10,620

Handsome early 19th-century mahogany tall-case clock made by Jacob Eby (1776-1828) of Manheim, Pa., $10,620

 

ATLANTA – A handsome early 19th-century mahogany tall-case clock made by Jacob Eby of Manheim, Pa. (1776-1828) chimed on time for $10,620, and a colorful offset lithograph printed on wove paper by renowned pop artist Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997) titled Sunrise, fetched $7,080 at Ahlers & Ogletree’s Summer Collections & Estates Auction held August 27-28. Absentee and Internet live bidding was facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.

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Luxury goods from Manhattan estates lead Roland’s Sept. 10 auction

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Tribe of Gad, After Marc Chagall, lithograph

Tribe of Gad, After Marc Chagall, lithograph

 

NEW YORK – On September 10, 2016 Roland Auctions NY will present nearly 1,000 fresh-to-market lots comprising luxury goods of the first order from prestigious Manhattan estates. Exclusive locations beyond New York City represented in this auction include: Washington D.C., Greenwich, Conn., Boston, Santa Monica, Calif., and Istanbul, Turkey. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available on all lots through LiveAuctioneers.com.

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Justin Trudeau Is Marvel’s New Action Hero, View the Earliest Known Travel Photos, and More Fresh News

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Artwork by Ramon Perez/Courtesy of Marvel

Artwork by Ramon Perez/Courtesy of Marvel

 

News and updates from around the arts and auction community:

  • The special guest star on the cover of Marvel Comics’ newly released Civil War II is Canada’s rock-star Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. [Read more from The New York Times]
  • America’s most expensive home is move-in ready, for only $195 million. Where is it located? If you said California or Texas, try a different coast. [Read more from TopTenRealEstateDeals.com]
  • Some of the earliest of all known travel photos are being auctioned in England. The images were taken during an 1849 trip to Egypt. [Read more from Business Insider]
  • Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano has agreed to lead the monumental reconstruction effort in central Italian towns hard hit by a magnitude 6.2 earthquake. [Read more from ArchDaily.com]

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Katy Siegel appointed to curatorial post at Baltimore Museum of Art

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Katy Siegel. Image provided by Baltimore Museum of Art

Katy Siegel, Senior Programming and Research Curator, Baltimore Museum of Art. Image provided by Baltimore Museum of Art

 

BALTIMORE —The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) has announced the appointment of Katy Siegel as Senior Programming and Research Curator. In this new part-time position, Katy will play a key role in the museum’s future exhibitions, public programs, audience development initiatives, institutional identity, and partnerships, and will also advise on capital projects. Siegel began in her new position on September 1.

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Waverly’s Sept. 8 auction offers fine books, early maps, photos, rare autographs

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FALLS CHURCH, Va. – The blue-chip contents of Waverly Rare Books’ Sept. 8 auction could easily be mistaken for a connoisseur’s library – collectively, they are that well refined. However, the 401-lot sale represents carefully chosen consignments from many advanced collectors and includes not only scarce and exceptional books, but also maps, autographs and manuscripts.

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Best Tweets @LiveAuctioneers in August

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The last unofficial month of summer is now behind us and it was filled with sun, heat, ice cream, and of course, good finds on LiveAuctioneers. Before we get too comfortable with September, let’s take a moment to reflect back on this past eventful month of August. From a uniquely rare baseball card to the closing of the NYC institution Tekserve, the auctions this month were epic. And so were your tweets!

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