ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) – When Parkland High School sweethearts Ashley Scheffler and Naveen Bhasin tied the knot in September, they wanted a celebration highlighting their vastly different roots: Catholicism and Sikhism.
NEW YORK – Famous photographic images from the 20th century are available in a Jasper52 online auction to be conducted Tuesday, Nov. 21. Among the pictures are a Yousuf Karsh portrait of President John F. Kennedy, a prime example of Diane Arbus street photography and an unforgettable glimpse of Depression-era life by Dorothea Lange. Absentee and Internet bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – An wide selection of contemporary art, fine jewelry, furniture and decorative items will all be a part of Capo Auction Fine Art and Antiques’ upcoming mid-fall auction on Saturday, Nov. 18. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
BOSTON (AP) – Boston’s art scene is getting a Dutch treat with a twist: a flurry of donated 17th-century masterpieces that experts say will change the city’s museum landscape for decades to come.
NEW YORK (AP) – Talk about vintage wine: Pieces of broken pottery found in the nation of Georgia provide the earliest known evidence for the origins of today’s winemaking industry.
SANTA ANA, Calif. – Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) stands in the center of modern Chinese history. While most commonly viewed as a politician, this formidable matriarch was also introduced to Western audiences or readers as a connoisseur, patron and even creator of art in the early 20th century, a phenomenon that interestingly fell unnoticed in modern scholarship.