MT. CRAWFORD, Va. – The Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates Summer Americana & Variety Auction contains a true diversity of material and will include everything from rare Civil War material and railroad lanterns to country furniture and children’s articles. The large and comprehensive auction will take place over two days, Friday, August 23, and Saturday, August 24, 2019 with absentee and Internet live bidding available through LiveAuctioneers.
HATFIELD, Pa. – The Richard E. and Elisabeth Poole collection will be offered by Alderfer Auction on August 21-22, with absentee and Internet live bidding available through LiveAuctioneers. More than 100 pieces of fine art and designer jewelry from the collection will be included over the two days of selling, which also will incorporate Alderfer’s live and online Collector’s Auction.
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — To protect the masterpieces at the Uffizi Galleries, the Florence museum’s director climbed a ladder and hurled an employee’s bicycle down at a sheet of glass specially made to keep prized pieces such as Botticelli’s “Spring” and “Birth of Venus” safe from vandals.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A bidder from Nebraska has paid $920,000 for a house designed and built in Kansas City, Missouri, by iconic architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
LONDON – Coming October 8, 2019, The Pursuit of Art recounts art critic Martin Gayford’s travels and meetings with some of the world’s greatest artists.
BALTIMORE – Going on its 39th year, the Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show anticipates its return to the Inner Harbor at the Baltimore Convention Center over Labor Day Weekend, August 29-September 1, 2019. As the largest summer collectors’ event, the Baltimore Show looks forward to welcoming back hundreds of international exhibitors and 30,000 attendees – and now, all while supporting a worthy cause.
NEW YORK – Since the early 1990s, Rachel Harrison (b. 1966) has combined pop-cultural, political, and art-historical references in her work, creating a distinctive visual language that is multi-layered and full of mordant wit. Rachel Harrison Life Hack is the first full-scale survey to track the development of Harrison’s career over the past 25 years, assembling approximately one hundred works, including sculptures, photographs, drawings, and installations, ranging in date from 1991 to the present.
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