SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Apple is trying to drag the U.S.’s antiquated system for handling 911 calls into the 21st century.
Apple sets up iPhones to relay location for 911 calls
East meets West in PBA Galleries art, illustration auction June 28
SAN FRANCISCO – On Thursday, June 28, PBA Galleries will hold an art and illustration auction that will include Asian and Asian-American material. Over 360 lots will be up for bidding, featuring a remarkable gathering of works on the art, culture and literature of East Asia, primarily Japan and China, many with original woodblock illustrations and including screen prints and lithographs by modern Japanese artists. Absentee and internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
Artemis Gallery to auction fine antiquities, Asian, ethnographic art, June 20-21
BOULDER, Colo. – Throughout the year, Artemis Gallery presents both specialty and comprehensive one-day auctions that attract a global audience of antiquities and ethnographic art collectors, and institutional buyers. But the excitement level leading up to an Artemis Gallery sale is never greater than when the Colorado-based company hosts its two-day Exceptional Auction, whose format features antiquities and fine Asian art in the opening session and ethnographic art and fossils on Day 2. The next highly anticipated event of this type is slated for June 20-21, with absentee and Internet live bidding available through LiveAuctioneers.
1844 flag among gems at Jeffrey S. Evans Americana sale June 22-23
CRAWFORD, Va. – Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates will conduct their 34th semiannual Americana and Fine Antiques Auction on June 22-23. The event features a fine selection of historical flags, banners and other political textiles from a private collection; a special selection of over 100 antiquarian maps and prints deaccessioned by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, many examples from the William C. Wooldridge collection, published in Mapping Virginia: From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War; as well as private collections in Canada and across the United States. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
Rosa Parks home to be offered at auction this summer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The house where Rosa Parks sought refuge after fleeing the South will be offered at auction after being turned into a work of art and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean twice.
Ahlers & Ogletree sale June 24 has art, antiques from around the globe
ATLANTA – An important one-day auction featuring 583 lots of period antiques, fine art, modern art and furniture, Chinese decorative arts, rugs, lighting and more is planned for Sunday, June 24, by Ahlers & Ogletree, beginning at 10 a.m. Eastern Time. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
Grand Delacroix retrospective coming to the Met this fall
NEW YORK – The exhibition “Delacroix,” organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Musée du Louvre, will open Sept. 17 at the Met. It is the first comprehensive retrospective in North America devoted to the French painter.
Gold coin that jingled in George Washington’s pocket headed to auction
DALLAS – A one-of-a-kind gold coin believed to have once been a cherished memento of U.S. President George Washington made its first public pre-auction appearance since 1890 when Heritage Auction put it on display June 14 at the Long Beach Coin and Collectibles Expo in Long Beach, California. The gold coin will be sold without reserve at an August auction during the ANA World’s Fair of Money in Philadelphia. It is only the third time in its history that this piece has been offered at public auction.
Sculptor Louise Nevelson’s works on paper to go on view at the Whitney
NEW YORK – “The Face in the Moon: Drawings and Prints” by Louise Nevelson opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art on July 20. Drawn entirely from the Whitney’s extensive holdings of her work, this exhibition presents a career-spanning selection of works on paper by Louise Nevelson (American, 1899–1988).
Phila. exhibition to follow fashion from Dior’s New Look to now
PHILADELPHIA – More than seven decades of style will be displayed in Fabulous Fashion: From Dior’s New Look to Now, a major exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art running from October 16 to March 3, 2019. The haute couture and ready-to-wear garments and accessories on view date from 1947 – the year of the introduction of Christian Dior’s revolutionary “New Look” – to recent ensembles by audacious designer Bernhard Willhelm. Featuring some of the most significant and visually compelling works from the Museum’s renowned collection of costumes and textiles, Fabulous Fashion presents many new acquisitions and other outstanding works, exhibited rarely if ever before.
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