BLOOMFIELD, N.J. – Nye & Company Auctioneers will offer a solid two-day online Chic & Antique Summer Estate Treasures auction on July 21 and 22, starting at 10 am Eastern time both days. The diverse offerings are certain to delight collectors, designers, dealers, and institutions alike. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced a 200,000-square-foot expansion and renovation project that will cost more than $190 million. It is expected to be completed in 2025.
SmithGroup, an international architecture firm with an office in Washington, D.C., has been chosen as the designer of the project.
It is “the largest expansion and renovation project in the history of museum,” said Alex Nyerges, the VMFA’s director and CEO.
DALLAS – The world’s first auction dedicated to the art of anime set multiple world records at Heritage Auctions, June 25-27, as bidders drove sale prices of animation cels from the genre’s most iconic and award-winning films to more than $2.1 million.
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Museum of art announced it will display in its American galleries The Arch of Nero, a masterpiece by the great 19th-century American landscape painter Thomas Cole (1801–1848), as a long-term loan from the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation. Purchased by the Foundation at Sotheby’s American art auction in New York on May 19, this painting was one of a number of works of art sold by the Newark Museum of Art in Newark, New Jersey, to raise funds for the direct care of its collection. The Arch of Nero was widely considered to be the most important of the works sold by the museum. The Jacobsen Foundation, an organization dedicated to sharing its collection of American art with museums across the country, purchased The Arch of Nero intending to keep this important painting in the public domain. It will be placed on view in Gallery 208 of the Philadelphia Museum of Art beginning July 2.