| Green Your Home With Antiques: Investing in Antique Rugs Can Benefit Your Health and the Environment |
Summer 2007
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From government policies to award-winning documentaries, "green" consciousness now permeates all aspects of our lives. The major concerns of the early twenty-first century are energy efficiency, solar power, and the need to cultivate a way of life that is...
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| Highlight: Baltimore Summer Antiques Show |
Summer 2007
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Over 550 international dealers will convene over Labor Day Weekend to make this the largest summer indoor antiques event in the nation. This year the event celebrates its twenty-seventh year with an even more impressive range of fine art, jewelry, silver,...
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| Highlight: James Graham & Sons — A Century and a Half in the Art Business |
Summer 2007
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This leading dealer in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American paintings, American and European sculpture, and contemporary art celebrates its 150th anniversary this year. The exhibition and accompanying book by Betsy Fahlman, Professor of Art History...
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| Highlight: The Unknown Monet — Pastels and Drawings |
Summer 2007
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Disputing the idea that there is nothing new to say about Claude Monet (1840-1926), this exhibit draws on a body of largely unknown graphic work and recently discovered documents to throw new light on the artist's creative process. Monet denied the role...
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| Highlight: The Year of O'Keeffe -- Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Celebrates A Decade with Two Exhibitions |
Summer 2007
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The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum celebrates its successful first decade with two impressive exhibitions. Circling Around Abstraction brings together over fifty works from various institutions and private collections to explore O'Keeffe's (1887-1986) consistent...
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| Highlights: New, Events, and Trends from the Antiques and Fine Art Marketplace |
Summer 2007
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This year, the Bedford Pickers Market show, long a highlight of New Hampshire’s annual antiques week in August, will move from its traditional Friday spot to Monday. Dealers and collectors will both benefit from the change, says show promoter Frank...
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| Hiram Powers' Technique: The Art of Seizing a Likeness in Marble |
Summer 2007
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Hiram Powers (1805-1873) was one of the most celebrated American sculptors of the nineteenth century. His full-length nude marble statue The Greek Slave (1844), one of his best-known works, earned him international acclaim. A retrospective exhibition of...
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| If I had €1 Million |
Summer 2007
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Even though I had been told before I left for TEFAF (The European Fine Art Fair) in Maastricht, The Netherlands, that it was arguably the premier antiques show in the world, nothing prepared me for what I saw when I arrived the first day, jet lagged and g...
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| Lifestyle: Hollywood Babylon Revisited |
Summer 2007
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"A neglected house gets an unhappy look; this one had it in spades." Joe Gillis, the doomed screenwriter protagonist of Sunset Boulevard, could have been talking about The Cedars in an earlier incarnation, when he said those words. Indeed, some interior...
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| Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939 to Emphasize American Works |
Summer 2007
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Never before have the conditions of life changed so swiftly and enormously as they have changed for mankind in the last fifty years. We have been carried along... [and] we are only now beginning to realize the force and strength of the storm of change...
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