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Post-1947 Ivory Ban Looms in UK; ‘Mad Men’ House for Sale in Dallas, and More Fresh News

Catherine Saunders-Watson
Catherine Saunders-Watson
A female African Bush Elephant in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania. Photo by Muhammad Mahdi Karim, licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation Licanse, Version 1.2.
A female African Bush Elephant in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania. Photo by Muhammad Mahdi Karim, licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2.

 

News and updates from around the arts and auction community:

  • Within the next 24 hours, Britain’s environment minister is expected to announce a full ban on the sale of ivory objects made after 1947. She’ll be sharing the platform with Prince William, an outspoken proponent of elephant protection. [Read more from Antiques Trade Gazette]
  • Designed by architect Gordon Nichols and featured in a 1954 parade of homes, a Dallas residence straight out of Mad Men is on the market for $665,000. It’s in immaculate condition and packed with period furnishings in eye-popping colors. [Read more from The Daily Mail]
  • A Massachusetts hotel is celebrating its 300th anniversary with an amnesty appeal. Any items lifted from The Wayside Inn – whether a soap dish or Ezekiel Howe’s copy of the Declaration of Independence – may be returned with no questions asked. [Read more from the Boston Globe]
  • An exciting exhibition of Mexican Modernist art opens at the Philadelphia Museum of Art next month. Visitors can experience the period from 1910-1950 through the masterpieces of Diego Rivera, Jose Orozco, Frida Kahlo and many of their contemporaries. [Read more at the Philadelphia Museum of Art]

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