MARTHA’S VINEYARD, Mass. – After Jacqueline Kennedy’s second husband, Aristotle Onassis, the former first lady did something she had never done before. In 1979 she bought 340 idyllic oceanfront acres in Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard. She then commissioned architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen to design her house and named it Red Gate Farm. It was where she could be surrounded in nature that she found both healing and regenerative.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The RISD Museum has announced a significant gift of 66 contemporary artworks from collectors Avo Samuelian and Manuel Gonzalez. Thirty-three works were brought into the collection in December 2019 joining a similar gift to the museum of 33 works in 2017.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) – The Studebaker Corporation made its first foray into the market for lower-priced automobiles in 1927.
It didn’t go well.
NEW YORK – Sotheby’s has unveiled the nearly 1,000 items on offer in Mario Buatta: Prince of Interiors, an auction Jan. 23-24 dedicated to the personal collection of the late interior designer legend Mario Buatta.
NEW YORK – Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976), pioneer of kinetic art, began his career at age 11, by constructing a tiny dog and duck from trimmed, shaped make-do materials at hand. The duck, when tapped, rocks to and fro.
NEW YORK – Christie’s will auction William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, often referred to as the “First Folio,” as part of the Exceptional Sale during Classic Week at Christie’s New York on April 24 (estimate $4 million-$6 million).