BLOOMFIELD, N.J. – Fine jewelry items from the estate of Claus Vollrath, a German-born designer of custom jewelry who cut his teeth at Cartier after immigrating to America and later operated several boutique retail jewelry stores in New York, will be sold in an online-only auction on Wednesday, Aug. 29, by Nye & Company Auctioneers. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
DETROIT – The Detroit Institute of Arts’ (DIA) Detroit Film Theatre (DFT) is offering free (with museum admission) showings of the hit movie Black Panther on Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 28 and 29, at 3 p.m. Museum admission is free for Wayne, Oakland and Macomb County residents. Seating is first come, first served.
PORTLAND, Maine – On August 17, 2018, the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) opens Americans Abroad, 1860-1915, an exhibition of watercolors, prints, and paintings by American artists who travelled to Europe for training and inspiration in the late 19th century. The exhibition of 24 works by artists such as Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, draws from the PMA collection and special loans, and includes rarely seen watercolors by John Singer Sargent, Maurice Prendergast, and more.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The hunt for auctioneers to sell off parts of a valuable collection of Lincoln artifacts, including an iconic stovepipe hat and gloves bloodied the night he was assassinated, to settle a $9.7 million debt began Wednesday, but the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Foundation cautioned a sale isn’t imminent.
CAIRO (AP) – Egyptian authorities are demolishing a historical 19th century neighborhood in Cairo to make way for high-end housing and business development a stone’s throw from the Nile, angering residents who say they have not been properly compensated.
RENO, Nev. (AP) – A federal judge has thrown out a defamation lawsuit a Western art collector filed against a prestigious auction house and the owner of a Reno gallery who claimed an early 20th-century cowboy painting he sold for $750,000 was a fake.
AMESBURY, Mass. – Long before American Pickers hit television, Janis Blouin of Georgetown, Massachusetts, was perfecting the art of finding and buying the best Americana, folk art, toys, advertising and country accessories to be found anywhere north of Boston. John McInnis Auctioneers will sell Blouin’s renowned collection grouped into over 1,600 lots over three days, Aug. 24-26 in Exeter, New Hampshire. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.