Crosscurrents - Art of the Southeastern Congo

September 30, 2011–January 8, 2012 Inspired by the Museum’s three finest works of African sculpture, Crosscurrent s explores the art of thre...

Pre-Columbian Art - November 2011

Remojadas Figure Veracruz, East Mexico c. AD 500 - 1000

Faces

Pokot Girl Kenya East Africa 

American Indian Art

Sioux Acquired August 29, 1890 Sarah Hatch Webster Pineridge Reservation Complete Documentation Available

JB - My Word November 2011

For many appraisers November is an insane time when you almost dread the ringing of the phone knowing that more work is on the way. Clients ...

Christmas Issue of the Newsletter

This next issue which will be out by mid December will not contain anything negative. If we need to report something it can wait until Janua...

Auction Sales Still Strong for High End

1. Bonhams achieves new auction highs for Chinese art sales in Hong Kong HONG KONG.- At a time of serious economic instability around the wo...

1000 Year Old Asian artifacts in Alaska?

ANCHORAGE (AP).- A research team is attempting to discover the origin of a cast bronze artifact excavated from an Inupiat Eskimo home site b...

William Siegmann, Curator Emeritus, Brooklyn Museum

It is with deep sadness that I write to inform you that William Siegmann, Curator Emeritus of the Arts of Africa and the Pacific Islands at ...

Can a Headrest Identify Your Sleeping Partner?

The Maurer headrest collection which the gallery is now offering was assembled by Evan Maurer with great care over almost four decades. Evan...

Common Sense in Your Art World

Associating common sense with the passionate pursuit of art may seem to many to be an oxymoron that can never be rationalized. The results o...

Ray Wielgus , His Guns, and Some Thoughts About Last Wishes

This month I was invited to speak at the Phoenix Museum of Art in celebration of the exhibition of the embellished gun collection of Ray Wie...

End of the World?

MEXICO CITY (AP).- Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occu...

Zoot Suit Anyone?

I really enjoyed this story and my good friend "Lee" Dunbar's part in making a little history. This is repinted from August-Au...