NEW YORK – Collectors can find their place in the world and even the solar system by viewing the Premium Antiquarian Maps auction that will be held by Jasper52 on Wednesday, May 15. More than 100 vintage illustrated maps and views by some of the most significant cartographers of their times will cross the auction block. Bid absentee or live online exclusively through LiveAuctioneers.
PHILADELPHIA – On Saturday, May 18, Kamelot Auction House will conduct its 14th annual Garden & Architectural Sale, an outstanding collection of garden and architectural antiques from across the globe. This highly anticipated auction will include a wide variety of designs and styles to complement any outdoor paradise. Bidding will commence at 10 a.m. Eastern time. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.
LIVERPOOL, England – Julien’s Auctions held its highly anticipated Music Icons: The Beatles in Liverpool auction event at The Beatles Story Thursday, as nearly 300 pieces of iconic Beatles memorabilia went under the hammer. John Lennon’s personal and signed Yesterday and Today album prototype from 1966 sold for £180,000 ($234,400), a record-breaking price for a ‘butcher’ album. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, England (AP) – An underground chamber discovered accidentally by road workers appears to be the site of the earliest Christian royal burial ever found in Britain, archaeologists say, calling it the Anglo-Saxon equivalent of King Tutankhamun’s tomb.
NEW YORK (AP) — A prominent New York City art dealer once accused by Alec Baldwin of fraud was sentenced to 2½ years in prison Thursday for evading over $3 million in federal taxes, a crime that left her rejected in some art circles and saying she feels like a pariah.
NEW YORK – The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) presents an exhibition dedicated to the work of American artist Roger Brown (1941-1997), examining the ways in which collecting, arrangement and the theatrical informed and enriched his artistic practice. “Roger Brown: Virtual Still Lifes,” on view through Sept. 15, features works made in the final years of the artist’s life that combined his passion for collecting with his groundbreaking approach to painting. Marking the first solo museum show in New York devoted to Brown, the exhibition at MAD offers a rare opportunity to view over 40 works that trace the artist’s evolution through the lens of collection and display.
NEW YORK – Motherhood in art is a theme as old as time. From antiquity, religious icons were created to depict saintly images of the Madonna and the Christ Child to romanticized visions among the Impressionists in the 19th century to more modern visions, warts and all.