SAN FRANCISCO – PBA Galleries will conduct an Americana – Travel & Exploration – World History – Cartography Sale on Thursday, Oct. 4. This auction will include over 500 lots of rare, unusual and significant material on the history, ethnology, geography, cartography, geology, natural history, and culture of the Americas and the world at large. Included are books, maps, prints, manuscripts, photographs and ephemera. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – Art of the ’80s, bursting with defiant, upbeat imagery, is presented in a collection of works that will be sold in a Jasper52 online auction on Wednesday, Oct. 3. Driven by a force that was amiable and edgy, fun and liberating, artists working in this decade produced light artworks that were well-received by the public then and to this day. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Long before Brazil’s National Museum went up in flames, the people who ran it were pleading for help to renovate the dilapidated 200-year-old building that held much of the nation’s historical and scientific heritage.
BILBAO, Spain – On Oct. 19 the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will unveil an exhaustive exhibition of more than 200 sculptures, paintings, and drawings covering more than 40 years of artistic output by Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966), one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.