LOS ANGELES – Peekaboo Gallery will launch its inaugural pop-up auction event of airline memorabilia, Friendly Skies: The Art of High Altitude Travel, on Saturday, Oct. 13, beginning at 11 a.m. Pacific Time. Collectors from around the globe will have the opportunity to bid on over 150 rare and nostalgic items including a scarce and historical piece of American history. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
LOS ANGELES – Julien’s Auctions salutes one of the greatest songwriters of all time with the Personal Property of Bernie Taupin to be sold Nov. 9 live at Hard Rock Café in New York. This spotlight music artist auction event celebrates the 50th anniversary of Bernie Taupin’s writing partnership with pop culture icon Sir Elton John, whose fabled collaboration produced some of music’s greatest hits of all, earning more than 30 gold and platinum albums together, 40 top 10 hit records and worldwide renown as one of pop music’s greatest songwriting duos.
CHICAGO (AP) – Officials say a sculpture by the late artist Keith Haring will be placed at the AIDS Garden Chicago.
NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP) – There is nothing grand about the white tenant cabin with green trim sitting on the grounds of Melrose Plantation here. Nothing about it commands attention.
DETROIT – A monumental work by internationally renowned Ghanian artist El Anatsui, one of the most original and compelling artists of his generation, is now on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) in the museum’s Great Hall. “Amemo (Mask of Humankind)” is on loan from the collection of Padma and Raj Vattikuti and will be on view for several years.
DOUGLASS, Kan. – The lifetime American Brilliant Cut Glass (ABCG) and Brilliant Period Cut Glass (BPCG) collection of Jean Rex of California will be sold without reserve on Saturday, Oct. 20, by Woody Auction. The patterns will include Rex, Kohinoor, Montrose, Columbia, Salem, Ellsmere and Sparkler. Many of the pieces are signed. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A collection of Thomas Hart Benton paintings highlighting the destruction of World War II are on display as a set for the first time in nearly two decades.