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  CRN Auctions, Inc. presents its Spring Estates Auction on Sunday, May 6, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. at the CRN Gallery, 57 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA. As with each CRN Auctions, we offer a fine group of fresh objects new to the market.  This sale features English and Continental Furniture; American and European works of art spanning from the 17th to 20th century; European and American silver; Oriental carpets; Japanese items; Chinese 18th and 19th furniture, Chinese Export porcelains, and a private collection of 19th c. Chinese snuff bottles.  Fine accessories from various ...

Dozens of examples of highly collectible Southern pottery by such renowned artisans as Dave the Slave, Thomas Chandler, W.T.B. Gordy and others will be sold on Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, by Cagle Auction Company, at the Jefferson Civic Center, located at 65 Kissam Street in Jefferson, a town north and east of Atlanta, just off Interstate 85.             Between 300 and 400 quality lots will cross the block in a range of categories, to include country store and advertising items, petroliana (gas station memorabilia), and rare ...

Though it might be fun, you don’t have to scour Europe or India to find fabulous antique shawls to wear or to decorate your home with because antiques dealer Laura Fisher has gathered a sumptuous array of these beautiful textiles to welcome Spring in her NYC gallery FISHER HERITAGE. The astute shopper can delight in the fact that antique shawls are dual purpose - you can toss one on your sofa, AND you can wear it out the door! In either circumstance your choice would be appropriate as well as eye catching. Fisher chooses shawls for their overall beauty, the intricacy of the ...

When the venerable Philadelphia Antiques Show opens it doors in the Convention Center in Philadelphia on Friday, April 27, and the 23rd Street Armory Show takes up residence in the armory of the same name, it will mark another running of Philadelphia Antiques Week. This year, for the first time, visitors will be able to get all the information they need about the shows, museums, and attractions at one website, PhiladelphiaAntiquesWeek.com    The fourth in a series of travel sites designed to serve consumers and collectors shopping the named market weeks, ...

Kevin Lee, VP and partner at dGenerate Films, tells 3 dots water about the state of independent Chinese films.  dGenerate Films is a leading distributor of Chinese independent films.  3 dots water accompanied Kevin Lee to the screening at MoMA of "When the Bough Breaks," a 147-minute documentary.  The director, Ji Dan, one of China's few female independent filmmakers, has developed an aesthetic opposed to the first person type of filmmaking.  3 dots water provides links to dGenerate Films and to trailers of some of the latest Chinese documentaries.

Antique Helper Auctions announces a series of Boutique Auctions, to be held as part of the company’s monthly Art and Antiques Auctions.  The theme of the April 21st auction will be historically significant art by African-Americans (1900-2000).   Managed by Thom Pegg, of Tyler Fine Art in St. Louis, each Boutique Auction will be comprised of 20-30 lots that relate to a common theme.    The earliest painting, done about 1910, is an elegant still life, titled, Mountain Laurels, by Charles Ethan Porter, a highly collected artist from ...

 Harris & Ruble•ART, Hollywood's most diversified and eclectic new gallery, is pleased to present "Otium-Negotium," featuring works by Berlin-based artist Andrea Wilmsen. The exhibition will open with a reception for the artist on Saturday, May 12, from 5 pm - 9 pm, and will continue until June 24.   "Otium-Negotium" is a narrative cycle of photographs reflecting the artist's expression of two seemingly contradictory collections of images, one series of nature, the other of urban photographs.   Andrea Wilmsen approaches both sides of human nature through her own direct ...

   The Fischbach Gallery is pleased to present Diaries, an exhibition of recent paintings by Brad Marshall, opening 26 April and continuing through 26 May 2012.  There will be an opening reception for the Artist, Thursday, April 26 from 5 to 7P.M. This is Marshall’s fifth solo exhibition at The Fischbach Gallery. The panoramic views in Brad Marshall’s paintings are more than just records of his travels.  Similar to nineteenth century Hudson River School painters, Marshall is attracted to dramatic locations. Marshall’s art work is a translation of the emotional ...

This summer, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design presents Charlotte Dumas: Anima (July 14–October 28, 2012), the first solo exhibition in the United States by Dutch artist Charlotte Dumas and the fourth exhibition in NOW at the Corcoran, a program dedicated to showcasing work by mid-career and emerging artists. Anima, organized by Paul Roth, the Corcoran’s senior curator and director of photography and media arts, will showcase a newly-commissioned series of portraits in the Corcoran’s Rotunda that show the majestic burial horses of Arlington National Cemetery, and will ...

  William Adolphe Bouguereau’s sublime Fishing For Frogs, 1882, is expected to bring $1,500,000+ as the offering on the European side of Heritage Auctions’ May 15 Signature® American & European Art Auction, taking place at Heritage’s Dallas Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street, while Eastman Johnson’s lyrical Child at Prayer, circa 1873, is the top American offering with a $500,000+ pre-auction estimate. These prime examples, along with 33 others, have been consigned to the auction by The Lexington Trust of Los Angeles. “This is one of the deepest art auctions that ...