SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Members of a newly formed tribal advisory commission for the Bears Ears National Monument reminded Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke in a letter Friday that his agency must partner with them, and warned him that rescinding or shrinking the monument would be “absolute tragedies.”
NEW YORK (AP) _ David Rockefeller was the last of his generation in a famous American family that taught its children that wealth brings great responsibility. Even as children, he and his siblings had to set aside portions of their allowances for charitable giving. That lesson lasted throughout his life; to mark his 100th birthday in 2015, Rockefeller gave 1,000 acres of land next to a national park to the state of Maine.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A Holocaust survivor who became a sculptor and has his work on display at Ohio’s governor’s mansion has died.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – A Seth Thomas No. 8 office double-dial calendar clock with exceptional finish and in excellent condition, and a late 18th / early 19th century English triple fusee animated bracket clock that plays a selection of four different tunes on the hour, are expected top lots in Fontaine’s Auction Gallery’s Antique & Fine Arts Auction, scheduled for Saturday, March 25. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
BOULDER, Colo. – The 2003-4 “Windows Into Heaven” exhibition held at the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, N.C., celebrated a period that was the zenith of Russian art’s long and illustrious history. The stellar exhibition that drew international media attention featured 18th- and 19th-century Russian icons on loan from the Lilly and Francis Robicsek collection. It would be another 10 years before the fabled icons were exhibited again, at the North Carolina Museum of History. Now a select grouping of icons from those two exhibitions has been chosen to headline Artemis Gallery’s March 23 auction, with absentee and Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers.
GARDNERVILLE, Nev. (AP) – It can only mean one thing if Mike Call slams on the brakes while driving down the highway – barbed wire.
AMESBURY, Mass. – An important Revolutionary War sword and scabbard made by John Bailey and descended in the family of patriot Francis Dana (1743-1811), a pair of circa 1820 floor globes by Cary of London, and a large oil portrait painting by William McGregor Paxton (American, 1869-1941) will all come up for bid at a March 24-26 auction. They are a few of the many rare, important and historically significant items slated to cross the auction block at John McInnis Auctioneers. Absentee and Internet bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
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A once-neglected strip of Miami Beach whose landscape consisted of decaying structures and empty lots is getting a glamorous makeover. The $1 billion project includes opulent hotels, condos and a performing arts center. [Read more from AP/CNBC]
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INDIANAPOLIS – This spring, experience nature indoors and out with Audubon: Drawn to Nature at the Indianapolis Museum of Art from April 1 through July 30.
DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. – Pook & Pook and veteran toy auctioneer Noel Barrett are partnering on another terrific toy auction, this time a big two-day event on Friday, March 31, and Saturday, April 1. Most of the 850 lots cataloged for this top-notch sale are from two advanced collections: the Stephen Sachs collection of cast-iron toys and banks, and the Eberhard Luethke collection of steam and hot air engines, accessories and live-steam toys and trains. The event will take place at Pook & Pook’s Downingtown gallery in suburban Philadelphia, with all forms of bidding including absentee and live online through LiveAuctioneers.