ALAMEDA, Calif. – The San Francisco Bay area, gateway to the Pacific, has long played an important role in the trade of Asian art treasures. At Michaan’s Auctions high-quality Asian art and antiques have been a core business since the company’s inception. In the March Gallery Auction on Saturday, March 9, Michaan’s will offer precious Chinese snuff bottles, a bronze elephant and Japanese woodblock prints by Hiroshige. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers. Continue reading
LONDON – Vine Auctioneers consecrates a new online bidding partnership with LiveAuctioneers with their Rare & Fine Wristwatch Auction on March 28. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Every auction has its surprises, but no one expected the prison correspondence of Boston gangster Whitey Bulger Jr., to steal the spotlight at Urban Culture Auctions’ (UCA) Feb. 24 debut. The 289-lot Sunday session that piggybacked a modern design sale hosted by UCA’s parent company, Palm Beach Modern Auctions, featured a mix of what auctioneer Rico Baca called “the fun stuff – from iconic pop furniture and graffiti art to street fashion, celebrity memorabilia and Space Age electronics.” But it was the Bulger material that ignited a media frenzy.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Megastar Michael Jackson’s musical legacy has been getting critically reappraised after a new documentary rekindled allegations of child sexual abuse, but at least two music museums in Detroit and Tennessee aren’t scrubbing the King of Pop from their exhibits.
NEW YORK – It’s been almost a century since Alfred Stieglitz scandalized polite society with nude photographs of his lover and soon-to-be-wife Georgia O’Keeffe.