KANSAS CITY, Mo. – TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel site, named the National WWI Museum and Memorial among the top 25 museums in the United States for the fourth time in the last five years as part of its 2018 Travelers’ Choice Awards.
NEW YORK — Judaica, or the material culture of the Jewish people, is revered both in the Israeli homeland and throughout the diaspora. In particular, ritual objects hold great importance, but many other forms of Jewish memorabilia, in particular those pieces made of silver, are also treasured for their beauty.
JUPITER, Fla. – Burt Reynolds, the handsome film and television star known for his acclaimed performances in “Deliverance” and “Boogie Nights,” commercial hits such as “Smokey and the Bandit” and for an active off-screen love life which included relationships with Loni Anderson and Sally Field, has died at age 82.
NEW YORK – While Chinese and Japanese porcelain wares are revered and collected worldwide, Korean celadon earthenware is a lesser-known category within the Asian decorative art genre that is rapidly capturing the attention of collectors, who admire its simple elegance. An opportunity to purchase fine antique Korean earthenware awaits bidders on Tuesday, September 11 as Jasper52 presents a boutique auction of 47 premium-quality lots. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available exclusively through LiveAuctioneers.
LOS ANGELES – Andrew Jones Auctions will make its international debut on September 15, with a grand opening and inaugural sale: Design for the Home and Garden. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – “Napoleon: Power and Splendor” marks the first examination of the majesty and the artistic, political and ideological significance of Napoleon’s imperial court, from Napoleon’s coronation in 1804 to his final exile in 1815. The exhibition opens at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City on October 26 and aims to capture the spirit that prevailed in the French imperial court and to recreate the sumptuous ambiance of Napoleon’s reign.
LIVERPOOL, England – Opening November 23, Tate Liverpool presents the first major UK exhibition in 30 years of renowned modern artist Fernand Léger (1881-1955). Fernand Léger: New Times, New Pleasures brings together more than 50 paintings from across Europe, including many never before seen in the UK. The exhibition will run through March 17, 2019.
BEVERLY, Mass. – Kaminski Auctions’ August Estate auction saw two days of strong sales and prices for everything from Regency furniture to European portraits. The top lot of the sale held on Saturday, and Sunday, August 18-19, was a Julian Onderdonk oil on wood painting titled ‘Grey Morning’ from a Palm Beach, Florida estate. Onderdonk, who died at age 40, was an impressionist painter from Texas who studied under William Merritt Chase and is known “as the father of Texas painting.” The small painting measured five inches by nine inches and sold for $19,200.
CLEVELAND – The private collection of the late Dr. Ronald J. DiCenzo, the former Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Oberlin College in Ohio, will be auctioned on Wednesday, September 12, by Gray’s Auctioneers & Appraisers. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – Between the peace-and-love Woodstock decade and the era of Atari, Apple and Star Wars that followed, America had the real-life version of That Seventies Show going on. If you remember tie-dye shirts, Starsky & Hutch, or any car with a vinyl top, you were there. If not, you can relive the colorful 1970s with a playroom decked out with posters, toys and other fun collectibles available in Jasper52’s Sept. 11 online-only auction. Bid absentee or live online exclusively through LiveAuctioneers.