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RAGO AUCTIONS JUNE 6 OPEN HOUSE FEATURES A TALK BY DR. MARTIN EIDELBERG ON “THE MEN OF MODERN DESIGN”

Released: May 23, 2013

Lambertville, NJ: The Rago Arts and Auction Center hosts an open house on Thursday, June 6, featuring a talk by Dr. Martin Eidelberg on “The Men of Modern Design” at 6 p.m. The talk takes place during the preview week for Rago’s 20th C. Design auctions, which will take place on June 8th and 9th. About 1930, the history of modern design in the United States took a decisive turn when a small group of very young men (almost all under 30) became aware of modern Dutch and German architecture, and they brought that functionalist, Bauhaus-oriented style to New York. Many of...

Tiffany & Co. Bicolor Gold Ruby Brooch, $2,000-3,000

Rago’s Hosts Auction Open House on December 4 Featuring a Talk on Jewelry by Newark Museum Curator Ulysses Grant Dietz

Released: November 21, 2012

Rago’s Hosts Auction Open House on December 4 Featuring a Talk on Jewelry by Newark Museum Curator Ulysses Grant Dietz Lambertville, NJ: The Rago Arts and Auction Center hosts an open house on Tuesday, December 4, featuring a talk by Newark Museum curator Ulysses Grant Dietz. The talk, “The Lower End of Splendor: Middle Class Jewelry in Context,” focuses on the story of Newark, New Jersey as a jewelry manufacturing center, its decline during the Great Depression, through its demise in the 1990’s. By the eve of the great Depression, in 192...

An October Afternoon, 1871 Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880) Oil on canvas Henry H. and Zoe Oliver Sherman Fund

Special Guests and Programs at the 16th Annual Boston International Fine Art Show

Released: October 25, 2012

Galleries from the United States and Europe will offer more than 3,000 original works of art at the Sixteenth Annual Boston International Fine Art Show (BIFAS), November 15-18, 2012 at The Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts (BCA). The show opens with a Gala Preview on Thursday, November 15 from 5:30 to 8:30pm to benefit Friends of the Children - Boston. Gala tickets are $100 and $250. Weekend hours are Friday 1pm-8pm, Saturday 11am-8pm and Sunday 11am-5pm. Tickets are $15, under 12 free. For additional information visit www.FineArtBoston.com ...

McNay Announces New Mash-Up Lecture Series

Released: June 21, 2012

San Antonio, TX-- The McNay tackles Radcliffe Bailey's themes of water, blues, and blood with a new lecture series, inspired by our friends at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Two passionate experts present brief talks on specific, and very different, areas of interest. After the presenters field audience questions, once seemingly disparate subjects connect. Space is limited. To reserve your free tickets, call 210.805.1768 or e-mail education@mcnayart.org. Thursday, June 28, 6:30 pm, Chiego Lecture Hall Mash-Up Lecture: Sous-vide & Indigo Chad Carey, restaurateur...

Lot 879, Albert Paley, Custom Dining Table, $18,000-24,000

Rago's Hosts Auction Open House on June 13 Featuring a Talk on Modern Design by Author Judith Gura

Released: May 30, 2012

The Rago Arts and Auction Center hosts an open house on Wednesday, June 13, featuring a talk by author and journalist Judith Gura. In “After Modernism: What's New, What's Next, Judith Gura, author of Design After Modernism: Furniture and Interiors 1970-2010, will speak about recent trends in design, and new directions that are shaping design for the 21st century. A book signing will follow. Judith Gura is a Professor at The New York School of Interior Design, where she directs the design history and theory programs, and coordinates public programs. A graduate of Cornell Univers...

Frederick Judd Waugh, Seascape, $35,000-45,000

Rago's Hosts Auction Open House on May 8, Featuring Guest Speaker Dr. Robert Cozzolino

Released: May 2, 2012

RAGO'S HOSTS AUCTION OPEN HOUSE ON MAY 8, FEATURING GUEST SPEAKER DR. ROBERT COZZOLINO. Dr. Robert Cozzolino to speak on “Further Adventures of Pop in Chicago” at 6 pm. Lambertville, NJ: The Rago Arts and Auction Center hosts an open house on Tuesday, May 8, featuring a talk by Dr. Robert Cozzolino, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Senior Curator and Curator of Modern Art. Dr. Cozzolino will discuss the distinctive character of Pop in Chicago during the 1960s. In exploring popular culture source material, artists trained in...

Isaac Broome, Figural porcelain bracket, $4,000-6,000

Rago's Hosts Auction Open House on February 23 Featuring a Talk on American Art Pottery by Newark Museum Curator Ulysses Grant Dietz

Released: February 2, 2012

Lambertville, NJ: The Rago Arts and Auction Center hosts an open house on Thursday, February 23, featuring a talk by Newark Museum curator Ulysses Grant Dietz. In “What Happened When Pots Became Art?”, Mr. Dietz will discuss ceramics as art, contrasting how this was idea was apprehended in the 19th C. and how multiple aesthetics came to be bracketed by the market into what we now call American art pottery. Ulysses Grant Dietz has been the curator of Decorative Arts at The Newark Museum since 1980. He has been collecting American art pottery f...