June 2010

Precious as Jade — Visiting the Crow Collection of Asian Art

During my several visits to the Dallas Museum of Art, I did notice that their Asian…
Sad Announcement, NC Museum to Close Its Doors

Here’s the story as told on the Museum’s web site: “In light of the Town Council’s…
Platt and Murphy at John Moran Auctions

George Platt, as a still-life painter, may not stand out among his peers from the Northeast.…
Google Trends Show Antiques Heading South

I started to play around with a Google feature called Trends recently and noticed some troubling,…
A Well-Decorated Booth Makes All The Difference

You’ve seen them, antique mall booths with piles of stuff crammed into it. And they wonder…
John Lennon’s Handwritten Lyrics ‘A Day In The Life’ Sells For $1,202,500

After an intense bidding battle that lasted almost 6 minutes in Sotheby’s New York Fine Books &…
Antiques of French Colonial Vietnam, Onderdonk Painting to be Auctioned in Austin

Whit Hanks’s collection includes 19th-century Indochinese Catholic artifacts The stellar Whit Hanks collection of European antiques…
Crystal Bridges Announces Landscape, Tapestry

A luminous 19th-century landscape and a contemporary tapestry that confronts viewers with Civil War-era racial violence,…
Dropping by Wexford General Store

This past weekend brought the opportunity to drop in Wexford General Store, a few miles north…