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Fine Art and Antiques Appraiser Colleene Fesko

Appraiser Colleene Fesko’s Million-Dollar Diego Rivera Discovery

Released: January 2, 2013

Boston-based fine art and antiques expert Colleene Fesko, frequently seen on the hit PBS television series Antiques Roadshow, celebrates her third year as an independent appraiser and consultant. After more than two decades at Skinner Auctioneers and Appraisers, Fesko launched her appraisal firm in 2010, and has been in high demand for personal appearances, curatorial consulting and estate brokering since. In 2013, Fesko will be featured in a number of episodes of Antiques Roadshow’s Season 17, and two of her appraisals are already predicted to be season highlights. On January 7, an ep...

PBS' History Detectives investigates whether artwork by Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg and other major artists is on the moon, and releases a special online video asking for help in locating the elusive Grumman engineer "John F.," who purportedly smuggled the "Moon Museum" aboard Apollo 12 in November 1969. Pictured here is an identical ceramic mini-canvas, which sparked the story after Tampa, FL art curator Jade Dellinger purchased the curious piece in an online auction. To

PBS’ HISTORY DETECTIVES PUTS A QUESTION TO THE NATION: IS ANDY WARHOL’S ART ON THE MOON?

Released: June 8, 2010

Today, PBS enlists HISTORY DETECTIVES fans across the nation to solve a 40-year-old mystery: “Who is John F.?” — and did he really help send Andy Warhol’s art to the moon? HISTORY DETECTIVES has posted “Moon Museum” online today, two weeks before the segment airs in the June 21 broadcast premiere. The producers of the PBS series, a summertime favorite, are releasing the story prior to the season launch in the hopes that online viewers will produce evidence to answer this question. In “Moon Museum,” HISTORY DETECTIVES reveals the story of how six major artists — Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenbur...

Peter Linz & his character, Theo of PBS's "Between the Lions"

Lions and Puppets and Fun, Oh My! Family Day at the Katonah Museum of Art

Released: March 18, 2010

If your family is wild about puppetry, then you won’t want to miss Puppets! Family Day: Design • Create • Perform at the Katonah Museum of Art on Sunday, May 16 from 12-4pm featuring special guests Theo, the bibliophile puppet of PBS’s Between the Lions and his creator, Peter Linz. Family Day is free for Museum members, $5 for individual non-members (ages 3 and up), and $15 for non-member families. There is a $2 materials fee for puppet making activities. For information call 914-232-9555, ext. 0 or visit www.katonahmuseum.org. Family Day has become a perennial favorite and the Muse...