Brook Mason
Fair report: International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show, New York. “Haute Modernism” and antiquities at the forefront
With American classical furniture and decorative arts in close second place
Artist interview with Ruth Duckworth: America's top artist in clay turns 80
She sees herself as a sculptor and rejects any links with Arts and Crafts descendant, Bernard Leach
The taste of the spectacularly wealthy Palm Beach
Dealers come to share in the benefits of no income tax whatsoever
New York's Winter Antiques Show offers insight into the collecting trends, prices and the general health of the art market
The show will exhibit colonial and European furniture, girlhood embroidery, Native American pieces, and folk art
Contradictory entrails; what does the financial health at present mean for the art market?
Sales are buoyant in some areas but real estate is weakening and nerves are showing
Chirac’s Musée de l’Homme raises prices for primitive art
Fetish figures, tribal shields and masks command attention
First, target your audience: Marketing the Brooklyn Museum of Art
New director, Arnold Lehman, has raised the profile of America’s second largest museum in just one year by advertising
Marketing at MoMA: aim at the young professionals
Elizabeth Addison, head of marketing and communications, uses weekly surveys and focus groups to build brand awareness
Twentieth-century design sales in the US... Tiffany glass continues to climb
Twentieth-century decorative arts sales confirm prize prices for iconic furnishinings
Craft swings into high gear at SOFA, New York.
Contemporary decorative arts from $68,000 fibre arts to $100,000 glass sculpture
The Windsor sale: Stéphane Boudin and the rise and rise of the decorator
Once upon a time, connoisseur dealers or even museum curators advised collectors what art to buy. Now the decorators hold sway, and at the Windsor sale a decorator’s pastiche pieces outsold real antiques