MIAMI – An online gallery liquidation auction bursting with over 600 lots in a wide range of collecting categories – from Cartier to Picasso, from fine art to fine jewelry and everything between – will be held on Sunday, July 28, at 1:15 p.m. Eastern time by Miami Auction Gallery Online bidding is being provided by LiveAuctioneers.
BLOOMFIELD, N.J. – An Estate Treasures Auction highlighted by a large and varied collection of silver and carpets from the collection of Myrna and Bernard Posner is slated for Wednesday, July 31, by Nye & Company Auctioneers. Just under 700 lots will come up for bid. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.
WASHINGTON (AP) – A Dutch collector was at the White House on Thursday presenting the United States with an American flag flown on the stern of a boat during the World War II D-Day landing on Utah Beach.
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) – A Dutch still-life painting, stolen by retreating Nazis and sent by a German soldier as a present to his wife, came back to a Florence museum on Friday, thanks largely to a relentless campaign by the Uffizi Galleries’ director, a German.
CHADDS FORD, Pa. – This summer the Brandywine River Museum of Art is presenting “N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives,” the first exhibition in almost 50 years to examine in depth the entirety of Wyeth’s multifaceted oeuvre. A formidable yet often overlooked figure in the history of American art, N.C. Wyeth was the foremost illustrator of his generation and the patriarch of an extraordinary family of artists. By repositioning Wyeth as a distinguished painter who worked across the perceived divisions of visual culture in painting, illustration, murals and advertising, the exhibition offers new insights on Wyeth’s place within the broad spectrum of early 20th-century visual arts.
INDIANAPOLIS — Earlier this week, the Getty Foundation announced that Newfields is one of the recipients of its grant initiative, Keeping It Modern, and has received $170,000 to support architectural conservation at Newfields’ own Miller House and Garden in Columbus, Indiana.
EAST BOOTHBAY, Maine – A two-day Americana auction event featuring the contents of a stately 18th century Colonial home in East Boothbay known as the Murray House will be held July 27 and 28 by John McInnis Auctioneers, based in Amesbury, Mass. The sale will be held under a large tent on the grounds of the home on Murray Hill Road at 11 a.m. Eastern. The Saturday, July 27, session will have absentee online bidding courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.
DALLAS – Neil Armstrong’s personally owned gold medal, flown to the moon with him on his historic Apollo 11 landing, sold for $2,055,000 on July 16 at a public auction of rare space memorabilia at Heritage Auctions.
LOS ANGELES – It’s summertime and on July 28 Andrew Jones Auctions will present an amazing sale for savvy buyers, collectors and decorators looking for a new way to acquire great pieces. The DTLA (Downtown Los Angeles) Collections and Estates auction is where folks will find different, fun, quirky and out-of-the-ordinary accessories and furnishings, as well as luxe décor and statement pieces for the home, loft, gallery and retail space. Interior designers will be able to redesign a room or an entire home in an affordable, sustainable way. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition in its Arts of Japan Galleries will examine the rich cultural heritage of Kyoto, Japan, highlighting decorative artworks—including lacquers, ceramics, and textiles—created from the eighth century to the present. Opening on July 24 and showcasing more than 200 objects in four rotations, almost all drawn from the Met collection, “Kyoto: Capital of Artistic Imagination” will explore how changes in the city’s social, political, and religious structures influenced its artistic output.