Slow Art Day, this year on April 27, asks people all over the globe to visit local museums and art galleries to look at art slowly.
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Silver Picasso plate may serve up to $50,000 in live and online auction
A silver plate showing an image of a bull’s head by renowned artist Pablo Picasso may earn top lot honors at $50,000 during a March 2-3 multi-estate sale.
Stars come out for opening of Winter Antiques Show
The Winter Antiques Show opened its 10-day run at the Park Avenue Armory with strong antiques sales, celebrity sightings, standing-room-only at the special lectures, and a 25 percent increase in daily visitors.
Glorious L.C. Tiffany museum collection earns $4 million
Michaan’s Auctions reports making more than $4 million in sales in just under three hours Nov. 17, 2012, during the firm’s Treasures of Louis C. Tiffany from the Garden Museum, Japan Auction.
Pair of Russian enameled silver lidded urns may seal up $12K in Fla. sale
Original works of art by noted artists such as Jean Dufy, Antoine Blanchard and Avinash Chandra will be part of a fine artwork and decorative arts auction slated for Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, by Elite Decorative Arts,
Ten Tiffany leaded glass lamps lighting the way in art glass auction
A private collection of Tiffany lamps, a collection of Tiffany glass that had been bricked up in a secret Connecticut trove and the largest Lalique collection ever offered by Heritage Auctions make their way to the auction block Nov. 16-17.
Guide to collecting carnival glass, America’s iridescent glassware
The term “carnival glass” has evolved through the years as glass collectors have responded to the idea that much of this beautiful glassware was made as giveaway glass at local carnivals and fairs. However, more of it was made and sold through the same channels as pattern glass and Depression glass. Some patterns were...
Japan’s Louis C. Tiffany Garden Museum Collection offered by Michaan’s in November
In what's being called 'the largest single transaction in the world of decorative arts,' Michaan’s Auctions will deaccess in November Japan's Louis C. Tiffany Garden Museum collection. The collection was crafted by Takeo Horiuchi, the founder and director of the Louis C. Tiffany Garden Museum, and Alastair Duncan, an author and authority on Art...
Minton cups and saucers bring $3,500 in antique art glass auction
A rare and fine set of four Minton cups and saucers brought $3,500 at a July 7 auction of cameo glass, Nippon, Wave Crest, Royal Bayreuth, Tiffany and dozens of other pieces of art glass. A signed Favrile pedestal cake stand with yellow and white opalescent spider web design and a gold iridescent foot...
Nearly a dozen porcelain plaques – KPM, Limoges – offered in July 14-15 auction
Three mid-20th century ceramic pitchers by the renowned artist Pablo Picasso are among the nearly 1,400 lots offered at a live and online fine estates auction by Crescent City Auction Gallery of New Orleans.