News: Antiques & Art

With Help From Friends, Folk Art Museum Will Stay Open The quilts will live to see another day. Read More

Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker In New York At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art Inextricably linked with high-style New York since its appearance in the late Eighteenth Century, Duncan Phyfe furniture has retained a prominent place through the centuries. Read More

Seven Eras of Willem de Kooning “De Kooning: A Retrospective,” a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, includes some 200 paintings, drawings and sculptures created by Willem de Kooning, Read More

The Star-Spangled Collection Morris Offit loves watching people enter the offices of his New York wealth-management firm, Offit Capital Advisors, which is filled with antique American flags Read More

A Billionaire’s Eye for Art Shapes Her Singular Museum BENTONVILLE, Ark. — The era of the world-class museum built by a single philanthropist in the tradition of Isabella Stewart Gardner, John Pierpont Morgan Jr. Read More

The Fine Points Of Albert M. Sack (1915-2011) Albert M. Sack, the prominent author, lecturer and antiques dealer, died on May 29. He was 96. Read More

The Art of Collecting Collections SHELBURNE, Vt. — There is a mystery about the Shelburne Museum. And you could easily spend a day here, just south of Burlington, walking around its 45 acres, amazed, awed and amused, and still not figure it out. Read More

THE ADA AWARD OF MERIT DINNER Morrison H. Heckscher Read More

Good Times Roll At Christie’s, Where Americana Week Sales Reach $22 Million Christie's said good-bye to the subdued selling of 2009 and 2010 Read More

Lord Of The Wing: Morrison H. Heckscher, ADA’s 2011 Award Of Merit Winner A recent tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Wing with its chairman of ten years included a brief stop in the Charles Engelhard Court, bustling, as it does most days, with students and sightseers. Read More

Inaugural Midwest Antiques Forum to be held in Lancaster, Ohio May 13-15 For the first time, museum curators, scholars, collectors, and members of the antiques trade will gather to share research on the early decorative arts of the American Midwest. Read More

Gate, Selling Up At Winter Antiques Show Take a look outside and it's not called the Winter Antiques Show for nothin Read More

The American Antiques Show: Energy, Selling "I am tired, but really happy," Karen DiSaia said a few days after the closing of TAAS, The American Antiques Show, which ended its three-day run at the Metropolitan Pavilion on Sunday, January 23. Read More

Seating All the Americas at the Same Table BOSTON — Five years after breaking ground, the new Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts here is opening on Saturday, and it’s a wow. Almost double-wow. Really good Read More

Major Gift of Furniture to National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art in Washington has been promised one of the most impressive collections of American furniture still in private hands, along with a group of Dutch old master paintings and watercolors by seminal American artists like Winslow Homer and Childe Hassam. Read More

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News: ADA Members

Shaped Aprons and Turned Legs: Regionalism in Early American Furniture Hamilton Hall’s inaugural Americana Lecture will be presented by well known furniture specialist Arthur Liverant, a founder of the Antiques Dealer’s Association of America and third generation owner of Nathan Liverant and Son in Colchester, Read More

Morris Finkel (1923-2011) Morris Finkel, a Philadelphia antiques dealer who rose to national prominence during six decades of business on the city’s Antiques Row, died Thursday, December 22, after a long illness. He was 88 years old. Read More

The Albert Sack Memorial Breakfast On Sunday, January 22nd, 2012, from 10am-11am, the Antiques Dealers' Association of America, Inc. will host a memorial reception and tribute for the late Albert Sack Read More

Angel Gabriel Weathervane Comes Down To Earth When I looked at the Angel Gabriel weathervane on top of the church through binoculars, I judged it to be about 42 inches wide. Read More

Morrison H. Heckscher: ADA Award of Merit Recipient Morrison H. Heckscher, the Lawrence A. Fleischman Chairman of the American Wing of the Read More

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