NEW YORK – Jasper52 will roll out a wonderful selection of antique and vintage rugs on Tuesday, Sept. 4, in an online-only auction featuring more than 100 lots. Bid absentee or live online exclusively through LiveAuctioneers. Any rug purchased in the sale will be shipped free of charge anywhere in the contiguous United States.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Founded in 1969 by Asian art expert Isadore M. “Izzy” Chait, I.M. Chait Gallery & Auctioneers conducts approximately 20 auctions per year, with estimates that range from one hundred to one million dollars. And while the family-owned business is most closely associated with high-end Asian art and antiques, I.M. Chait has seen its profile rise this year with successes in jewelry, watches, antiquities and fine art of the Western world.
DALLAS (AP) – Beneath the open jaws of a crouching dinosaur, Briana Smith pressed her small rotating saw into a plaster cast. Inside the cast lay pieces of a creature that had roamed Alaska about 70 million years ago.
NORWALK, Conn. (AP) – A 1600s Native American fort uncovered as part of a rail bridge replacement project is shining some light on a tribe’s first dealings with Europeans, archeologists said on Tuesday during a tour of the site.
KANSAS CITY, MO. – The opening of a special exhibition exploring the military relationship between the United States and Australia through art, the fourth annual Night at the Tower gala and a presentation from New York Times best-selling author Neal Bascomb are among the September events at the National WWI Museum and Memorial.
NEW YORK – Half Mast, a new work by Derek Fordjour, will be the eighth work in the ongoing series of public art installations on the façade of 95 Horatio Street, located directly across from the Whitney Museum of American Art and the High Line. The installation marks the artist’s first museum solo exhibition.
LONDON – The National Portrait Gallery has revised its reported visitor figures for the period April 24, 2017 to August 3, 2018, after an investigation revealed that the Gallery’s footfall counting system, operated by Ipsos Retail Performance, was significantly undercounting visitors through the main entrance.
NEW YORK — Baseball jerseys, especially game-worn ones, are among the most highly sought-after types of sports memorabilia. Baseball has long been America’s pastime, and most fans have fond memories of watching important games and witnessing historical moments in the sport. Engraved into many people’s memories are moments like when the Chicago Cubs finally broke a 108-year drought to win the World Series in 2016, or when Lou Gehrig played his final game in April 1939, declaring himself on July 4 that year in his farewell speech to be “the luckiest man on the face of the Earth,” even though a diagnosis of ALS ended his baseball career.
FALLS CHURCH, Va. – The 7th annual educational seminar of the Foundation for Appraisal Education (FAE) will be held Friday and Saturday, September 7-8 at Quinn’s Auction Galleries, located at 360 South Washington Street in Falls Church, Virginia. The International Society of Appraisers (ISA) will give professional development credits for those who fully participate.
ABINGDON, Va. – On Friday, August 31, A-OK Auction Gallery will offer the personal collection of fine antiques, furniture and decorative art carefully amassed over a lifetime by a retired South Florida antique dealer. The auction will commence at 5 p.m. Eastern Time, and absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.