18 May
CHRISTIE’S TRIUMPHANT NEW YORK MAY SALES OF IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN AND POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART TOTAL $756.3 MILLION
CLAUDE MONET’S LE PONT DU CHEMIN DE FER À ARGENTEUIL TOP LOT OF IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN WEEK AND AT $41.5 MILLION SETS NEW AUCTION RECORD FOR THE QUINTESSENTIAL IMPRESSIONIST MASTER
LUCIAN FREUD’S BENEFITS SUPERVISOR SLEEPING SELLS FOR $33.6 MILLION […]
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18 May
ICONIC WORK BY ED RUSCHA FROM THE COLLECTION OF AMERICAN ACTOR BUD CORT SELLS FOR $3,961,000 IN SOTHEBY’S DAY SALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN NEW YORK
New York, New York, May 15, 2008 - Today in Sotheby’s spring Day sale of Contemporary Art, Ed Ruscha’s I Don’t Want No Retro Spective, 1979, an iconic work […]
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18 May
INDIAN ART TOTALS $1,758,400 IN SOTHEBY’S SPRING SERIES OF CONTEMPORARY SALES IN NEW YORK, EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS
ARTIST RECORD SET FOR SUBODH GUPTA
RECORD SET FOR A PAKISTANI CONTEMPORARY ARTIST AT AUCTION — RASHID RANA’S RED CARPET-1, 2007, SOLD FOR $623,400, ALSO A RECORD FOR THE ARTIST
New York, New York, May […]
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18 May
AFAS To Dazzle Enthusiasts With 23rd Annual Art Exhibit During The 2008 Pebble Beach Concours
Pebble Beach, Calif. - May 15, 2008 - Members of the renowned Automotive Fine Arts Society will return to the shores of the Pacific on August 17, 2008, for their 23rd annual art show during the 2008 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. […]
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Posted in Antiques-Collectibles, Automobiles-Cars by: Time Piece PR
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18 May
Smithsonian Institution Presents 42nd Annual Folklife Festival
Visitors to the 42nd annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival can learn about the unique culture of the
Kingdom of
Bhutan, commemorate the 50th anniversary of NASA and explore the music, food and wine of the state of
Texas.
The 10-day Festival held outdoors on the National Mall between Seventh […]
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18 May
Bloomsbury Auctions sells Einstein’s Views on God and Religion for a Massive World Record £207,600
The bidding was frenetic at Bloomsbury Auctions‘ 25th Anniversary sale in London for Albert Einstein’s handwritten letter to his friend, in which he discusses his thoughts about God and religion. The saleroom was packed to capacity with […]
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15 May
FUN SUMMER WORKSHOPS AT THE WATCH AND CLOCK MUSEUM
COLUMBIA, PA: With high gas prices, are you looking for things to do that are closer to home this summer? A good option is to visit the “center of time” at the National Watch and Clock Museum where families can enjoy activities planned throughout the summer.
Second Hand […]
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15 May
SOTHEBY’S BEST SALE EVER
CONTEMPORARY ART SALE TOTALS $362,037,000, ABOVE ITS HIGH ESTIMATE, AND THE HIGHEST TOTAL OF THE TWO WEEK SERIES
FRANCIS BACON’S TRIPTYCH, 1976, COMMANDS $86,281,000, A RECORD FOR A CONTEMPORARY WORK OF ART AT AUCTION AND FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION
ADDITIONAL AUCTION RECORDS SET FOR
SEVENTEEN ARTISTS AT AUCTION, INCLUDING YVES […]
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14 May
MAJOR UNPUBLISHED ARCHIVE OF SOUTHERN HISTORY SOARS TO $76,725 IN MARCH MAIL-PHONE-E-MAIL-INTERNET AUCTION CONDUCTED BY COHASCO
(Yonkers, N.Y.) - A major unpublished manuscript archive of Southern history - including a 1775 map of Natchez, Miss. (which at one time boasted more millionaires than New York City); a Mississippi plantation Bible maintained from 1839-1979; and a […]
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Posted in Antiques-Collectibles, Auctions, Fine Art, New-York-Auctions, Online-Auctions, Paper-Ephemera by: Ken Hall
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14 May
National Zoo’s Conservation and Research Center Selected as Candidate Core Site for Ecological Observatory Network
Following a rigorous review process, the Smithsonian National Zoological Park’s 3,200-acre Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Va., was recently selected as a candidate core site for the National Ecological Observatory Network, a planned continental-scale […]
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