AAD REPORTS31/12/2020Arise Sir Sootie, Duke of Darkness.
Bojangles of BLM, Massa of Mexit.
When cops cars light up, he just floors it and says Bye Bye Bobby.
A stunning 12 months for Lewis Hamilton on and off the track, which included equalling Michael Schumacher’s...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS19/11/2020Brown remains down.
Armoire hammers for $25.
Antique Armoire Cabinet. Very large ornately carved antique hardwood armoire with key (however door does not fully close) and lion head hardware, 51"Wx22"Dx7'H (doors are out of plumb, left door inside...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS14/04/2020Antique thingamabobs and nik-naks must be thoroughly washed after being shoved somewhere the sun don't shine.
That is Guy's message in the post coronavirus world.
Read more on...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS05/03/2020
From Parliamentary question time this morning - Thursday March 5th 2020.
Question raised by The Right Honourable Andrew Bridgen MP for North West Leicestershire to the Right Honourable Jacob Rees-Mogg leader of the House of Commons.[Read More]
AAD REPORTS24/01/2020A wise man recently remarked that many of the climate hysteria folks were people incapable of handling the smaller seemingly umresolveable conflicts in their own life, so they over compensate as if to prove they can surmount something big.
Evidence...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS25/11/2019
The below first published 16.08.2019
Epstein Documents Released, Revealing Depths of Convicted Pedophile's Alleged Sex Trafficking Operation
Thousands of pages of documents related...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS05/10/2019The owners of the 2,000-square-foot loft in Chelsea loved antiques, and had furnished the apartment accordingly. There was a china cabinet topped with carved scrollwork and a grandfather clock standing sentry near the door.
Persian rugs padded the...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS27/08/2019Former LA detective on those pretending to be clueless on Epsteins predilections for paedophilia.
Deaf, Dumb, Blind, Stupid.
Reading between the lines, Fuhrman feels Andrew may be a moron but even he wasn't that stupid, he was totally in on it....[Read More]
AAD REPORTS16/08/2019
Epstein Documents Released, Revealing Depths of Convicted Pedophile's Alleged Sex Trafficking Operation
Thousands of pages of documents related to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking of young girls were...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS12/08/201970,000 African elephants appear to have given their hides to the legal global skin trade during the past decade—about twice the number poached for ivory each year.
Elephant Skin Auctions in Zimbabwe Are Booming—And Legal
“If you are looking for...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS28/07/2019LEWES, England — The 18th-century oak bureau was expected to sell for at least 50 pounds, or about $65. The auctioneer asked for an opening bid of £30. No takers. What about £20? Again nothing. Unsold. The auction moved on.
The fate of this lot in a...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS18/07/2019The Jeffrey Epstein case is an asteroid poised to strike the elite world in which he moved. No one can yet say precisely how large it is. But as the number of women who’ve accused the financier (at least, that’s what he claimed to be) of sexual...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS14/07/2019Follow James Libson and 'The Team' very very very closely indeed
Lenin Poster, circa 1920 - Lenin moved to Saint Petersburg in 1893 and became a senior Marxist activist.
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AAD REPORTS26/06/2019Does this mean a prominent royal is going to come out of the closet?
We hope Charles doesnt go all Edward II.
On Wednesday, Prince William paid a visit to the Albert Kennedy Trust, an organization which works to help aid and advocate for...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS15/06/2019All this talk of backs, buggery and Bodrum would get a certain highly questionable 'antiques' dealer to wax nostalgic over the 1978 movie Midnight Express.
Oh, Billy...
Dennis Buggins back in Bodrum
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AAD REPORTS14/06/2019A memorial to Mallets with a subtle dig at a familiar face.
In reading these words from one of the oldest and most esteemed English dealers in antique furniture and decor, it was hard to believe what they were really saying: that their business...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS22/03/2019Goment lie-lie na im make us boo President Buhari - Nigerian lawmaker
No be small drama happun on Wednesday wen Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari dey present di 2019 spend moni give both Senate and House of representative members inside di National...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS09/03/2019Caution, the previous owner was short, so this might be put best to use in a middle school or junior high.
Napoleon's imperial seat will be offered for sale on April 7 in Fontainebleau by Osenat auction house. The historic object one of the 5...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS20/01/2019An aged relic unable to understand (design of) tech, HIllary qualifies for antiques-design.
Seven Other Top State Department/Clinton Aides Must also Respond to Judicial Watch Queries
(Washington, DC) — Judicial Watch announced today that United...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS10/12/2018Millennial have finally learned press cardboard IKEA furniture is a hustle. More value in antiques.
A boom in antique sales has been driven by eco-conscious millennials who are rejecting “fast furniture”, auction houses have said.
While the...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS31/10/2018Buggins pushed out of Turkey.
Legal wrangling over his visa status as well as concerns over the potential illegal export of antiquities caused Dennis Buggins departure from Turkey.
Only a demented would be potentate such as Erdogan would prosecute for...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS11/09/2018The Sootie Show:
Set to take place in November, the 2018 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is swiftly approaching, and the handful of models who snagged a coveted spot in this year’s lingerie spectacle are taking to Instagram to announce the good...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS12/06/2018Royal Courts of Justice, architecture by George Edmund Street - follow the RCJ on Instagram @RCJ
Queen Victoria Opening of the Royal Courts of Justice, 1882 - by Henry Tanworth Wells (1828–1903) Government Art Collection
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AAD REPORTS23/05/2018Laurent and Olivier Kraemer charged with organised fraud and money laundering in ongoing investigation over so-called "fake Boulles".
Laurent and Olivier Kraemer, of Paris’s venerable Kraemer Gallery, are among a group of six dealers, experts...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS06/04/2018Gonna kill mah lan'lord
In March, the main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, sent out phone messages stating: "ANC & EFF working together to take all private land and homes. You can only stop this if you're registered correctly to vote!...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS20/03/2018Generation IKEA views the world via a lens supplied by an IPhone, as such, family heirlooms may get shipped to God knows where.
Sorry, Nobody Wants Your Parents’ Stuff
Advice for boomers desperate to unload family heirlooms
After my father...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS10/02/2018Cash and property deeds were missing from an open safe in the Nairobi home of a prominent American conservationist who was found dead last week from a stab wound to the throat.
The body of Esmond Bradley Martin, the heir to a Pittsburgh steel fortune...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS11/01/2018There is an argument that must be resolved by the people of Zimbabwe. There are certain people and I am one of them who believe that Robert Mugabe was the worst President and his treatment of opponents was worse than that of Adolf Hitler given the sea of...[Read More]
Elliot Lee30/12/2017It makes not one iota of difference to me personally if a decision is made to ban the trade in Ivory in part, or in full in the UK. With concrete certainty, the complete ban which is already in place for modern Ivory in the UK (Ivory harvested after...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS31/10/2017The news of the day is indicted Paul Manafort blew $1 million on rugs after the crash of 2008 until 2013, presumably the time he started to plot Trump's rise.
The funny question is why so much, especially during a time when the rug market...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS23/10/2017The desk was built for Capt. John Cowan (1748-1823), a Pennsylvanian who helped survey land that is now Louisville in 1773. The next year, he was a founder of Harrodsburg, the state’s first town, and in 1784, he helped John Filson create the first map of...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS19/10/2017Yaound - Sophisticated international trafficking of ivory in central Africa is being fuelled by high levels of corruption, according to a report recently published.
The study by wildlife trade monitoring network Traffic said weak governance, corruption...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS03/10/2017So much for the effectiveness of an ivory ban if the outlaw state of Zimbabwe continues its criminal enterprise in cahoots with China. Where is Mark Thatcher when we need him?
* Rare footage of the capture of wild young elephants in Zimbabwe...[Read More]
Lewis Baer22/04/2017No one is more thankful than me as to how 1stdibs single handily took on the industry’s challenge and hijacking by the Sotheby’s/Christie’s auction methods. The duopoly’s goal was to take away the dealer market by imposing a profit gouging...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS27/01/2017NEW YORK, NY, July 01, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Carlton Hobbs, the eminent international antiques dealer, is very pleased to announce that they were awarded the Fair Patron's Award 2009 for the Finest Work of Art in Association with CINOA, the...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS27/01/2017
NEW YORK, NY, September 18, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Carlton Hobbs, LLC is thrilled to be participating for the first time in Fine Art Asia, the premiere annual fine art fair in Asia located in Hong Kong. We are very excited to join the elite...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS08/08/2016
The Cedid Atlas Tercümesi
The Cedid Atlas Tercümesi, or New Atlas, was published in Istanbul in 1803 by the Ottoman Military Engineering School Press — the first atlas to be printed in the Muslim world.
The atlas,...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS03/08/2016A couple who bought a grotty old chair for £5 found diamond jewellery worth £5,000 hidden inside it.
Angela Milner-Brown, 50, and husband Angus, 47, bought the bargain at auction 10 years ago and kept it in their attic as they could not afford to have...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS13/02/2016Mallett shows us how fast the burn money from a pricey London building sale disappears.
You can read all about it on the so-dead-antiquestradegazette.com
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Jack Beeler08/10/2015Dear Michael Bruno and 1stdibs dealers,
I have a few thoughts and observations I will add to the mix. First, I’ll address the matter of the hidden price–the “contact dealer” syndrome. The parties who have commented (“Very...[Read More]
Maura Haverly29/08/2015Christie’s today announced the appointment of Geraldine Lenain, formerly number 2 in Christie’s Shanghai, as senior Director in Paris. She continues as an International Director of Asian Art.
Ms. Lenain is an expert in Chinese ceramics and...[Read More]
The Epoch Times18/08/2015
Frank Fang @ Epoch Times
Playing the dual roles of a player and a referee is one way to get filthy rich, and many corrupt Chinese officials have resorted to such tactics as they amassed staggering wealth when they tried to become artists, art...[Read More]
05/07/2015The NGOs (non-governmental organizations) of this world can wield a great deal of power. That is because their message is usually simple, straightforward and about things that are of great importance. Of recent, a number of NGOs in America have focused...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS12/05/2015In May, Sir John Soane’s Museum will publically open Soane’s private apartments and Model Room, located on the second floor at number 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London. The apartments have been fully restored, and have not been seen by...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS15/04/2015While I absolutely love macro-economic theory, I deal in a micro-economic business. The decorative arts industry has only recently, with the effects of the recent “Great Recession”, experienced a significant financial shock from this general...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS14/04/2015Image Courtesy :: The Metropolitan Police
Officers investigating the theft of items from a number of safety deposit boxes at a business in Hatton Garden have released CCTV stills from the robbery to trace the suspects involved.
Detective Chief...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS14/04/2015Los Angeles – A rare Demetre Chiparus sculpture entitled "Thaïs" is headed to the auction block in Bonhams' 20th Century Decorative Arts sale - April 29 in Los Angeles, with an estimate of US$150,000 - 200,000 - £100,000 -...[Read More]
Elliot Lee12/04/2015Bang! smash, the clatter of alarms, hundreds of police descend on Hatton Garden, within 5 minutes of the alarm being tripped…Well, that was what should have happened. Instead, we get a single copper looking through a window, and deciding not to...[Read More]
Laura Stewart07/04/2015BOSTON’S BRITCHES FALLING DOWN, FALLING DOWN...
MY FAIR CITY
AAD’s Laura Stewart Finds Brahmins Skipping Across Beacon Hill
As America’s Most Straight-Laced City Finally Loosens Up -
A brain teaser for art world cognescenti.
What...[Read More]
03/04/2015When architect Paul Cret, with input from soon-to-be director William Valentiner, designed the DIA, the central features were a great hall and a garden court; the latter adorned with a sprawling fountain and a wide array of potted plants. It was always...[Read More]
Laura Stewart27/03/2015THE PIANO PLAYS AT HARVARD AND IT HAS NEVER BEEN MORE PERFECTLY TUNED
AAD’s Laura Stewart heads to Boston to See How the Architect Pulled off an Amazing Feat - Getting Harvard to Lighten Up - Renzo Piano Renzo Piano in his studioCuriosity is what...[Read More]
Robert Alexander Boyle24/03/2015
Sapphire Turban Ornament (Jigha) or Brooch,
India circa 1920,Platinum set with Sapphire and Diamonds109.5 Carat Sapphire
Fresh from the stunning success of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it appears that the Al-Thani collection of...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS20/03/2015An auction to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. The sale, entitled 'Wellington, Waterloo and the Napoleonic Wars', will take place at Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street, London, on 1 April. A highlight among the 160 items offered in the...[Read More]
Dr Susan Grundy22/01/2015As the dust settles on the latest Old Master attribution scandal (‘Sotheby’s wins case involving questionable Caravaggio.’ Art Newspaper 16 January 2015) it is important to note that the law did not find in favour of the system, which...[Read More]
Mary Helen McCoy01/01/2015It is no secret that for the last ten years there was a move in the Antiques and Interior Design world to get away from the beautifully decorated traditional period styles. More and more the pages of design magazines were filled with a new found look....[Read More]
Mary Helen McCoy16/12/2014Fads collecting come and go generation after generation and if you are fortunate to live long enough you will experience the trends and see that “what goes around comes around". Although the quote is meant for Karma in life it applies to what we...[Read More]
Mary Helen McCoy25/11/2014A Brief History of Furniture continued: The Renaissance, Part two
French Renaissance furniture
The Italians were so far ahead of Northern Europe with the Renaissance and the influence it had on furniture. The Northern Europeans were more concerned...[Read More]
Douglas Stock17/11/2014In the classic film The Scarlet Pimpernel, the lead character, Percy, a member of the British noble class who is aiding French nobles to escape during the French Revolution, utters the short poem "They seek him here, they seek him there, those Frenchies...[Read More]
Lewis Baer27/10/2014I was advised that my bashing of the Duopoly auctioneers is a bit overdone. Perhaps it is, but, looking at the state of divergence between the decorative and fine arts markets, these auctioneers realize which one has reduced maintenance and storage costs...[Read More]
Sinead Brophy23/10/2014Image :: Author's Own
Walking into Frieze Masters one is automatically hit with a visual representation of what Frieze claims to be: a mix of the old and the new: a blurring of historic art with modern art. The gilded frames of Moretti’s 14th...[Read More]
Elliot Lee20/10/2014As an introduction to the forthcoming review by Sinead of her visit to Frieze Masters 2014, I thought I'd take a few photographs of finer works on display. What caught my eye this time were the selection of Calder Mobiles available at Frieze Masters and...[Read More]
Maura Haverly14/10/2014What's going on at Drouot?
Image :: fr.wikipedia
As my faithful readers know, in my search for the ineffable fantod (under glass) I visit auction rooms near and far. Drouot, the venerable collection of sales rooms located on rue Drouot in the 9th...[Read More]
Gail Green14/10/2014You know the old saying, “what isn’t said is sometimes more important than what is.” In architecture a balance of perfection is achieved through the expression of volume and void, the unspoken part of the equation. That is, the space...[Read More]
Lewis Baer10/10/2014Just when business has started to get better, one of my two old nemesis, Christie’s, just threw a softball to every decorative arts dealer who wants to claim “the middle market.” I don’t think it is really a big secret that the...[Read More]
Maura Haverly16/09/2014Wither Biennale des Antiquaires? Does it succeed in its aim of being the highest of high-end international art fairs? As it changes - as all international art fairs much change - where will it go next? Le Figaro talks about the "chute" of international...[Read More]
Elliot Lee15/09/2014A somewhat vulgar email sent out by Artsy on 9-11 honouring the Russians after the aircraft was downed over the Ukraine, would suggest that Artsy is running out of burn money, and may be sending out feelers for a Russian buy out?
Under the current laws,...[Read More]
Maura Haverly10/09/2014I wanted to see the largest flea market in Europe, "Le Grand Braderie", held in Lille, France the first weekend in September.Reported to attract 2 million + visitors, I imagined it hid all of the hidden treasures of the North of France and perhaps even...[Read More]
Lawrence Klepper05/09/2014When is a forgery worth more than an original? As an estate representative my expertise was in the fine arts and over the years it has proven to be an exciting and unexpectedly adventuresome occupation. I have written about some of the larger pieces...[Read More]
Cat Weaver01/09/2014
ART AS AN INVESTMENT?A Survey of Comparative Assetsby Melanie GerlisLund Humphries 2014
Prestige is the shadow of money and power.”
~C. Wright Mills
In her cheekily titled book, ART AS AN INVESTMENT? Melanie Gerlis (Art...[Read More]
Sinead Brophy26/08/2014After a lazy Sunday wandering through Dublin City Centre, trying to dodge the random deluges of rain that broke through the sunny sky, I decided to take a stroll through Dublin Castle. The Castle Gardens sit on the site of the Black Pool; known as Dubh...[Read More]
Jonathan Boorstein17/08/2014I arrived about an hour and a half early for the taping of the New York episode of The Antiques Roadshow. The tickets included the warning not to arrive more than 30 minutes before the entrance time, which in my case was 10 AM.
Despite there being no...[Read More]
Cindy Charleston-Rosenberg, ISA CAPP09/08/2014Last month we discussed The Appraisal Foundation's (TAF) pending Minimum Qualifications Criteria for Personal Property Appraisers. "The Criteria" applies to North American (US and Canadian) appraisers who value a broad range of luxury and investment...[Read More]
Lewis Baer30/07/2014Michael Cohen, the new chairman of BADA has written a ringing challenge in the “Back Page” of the Antiques Trade Gazette in an attempt to revitalise that organisation's standing and relevance to the trade and the greater public. Certainly...[Read More]
Tom Higginson22/07/2014I’m a very lucky old git, at least that’s according to the wife and mistress. ‘Having put up with me almost since time began, darned my socks and looked after my each and every need, then I suppose she occasionally might think so....[Read More]
22/07/2014The New York Times had an article about reliable polling in the political realm recently (http://nyti.ms/1na5rUV ) stating that biased polls "employ dubious weighting and sampling practices." Of course the greatest poll blunder in the recent past was the...[Read More]
Cindy Charleston-Rosenberg, ISA CAPP14/07/2014Minding the Hen HouseProfessional Standards for Art and Antiques Appraisers
New Minimum Professional Qualifications Standards are Set for an Unregulated Industry
The profession of appraising art and antiques has long been challenged by conflicts of...[Read More]
AAD REPORTS04/07/2014Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain (now officially...[Read More]
10/06/2014The Summer Exhibition of the Olympia Fine Arts Fair used to be one of the great events in London in the month of June. Olympia would open on the first Friday in June and then the Grosvenor House Fair would open the following Wednesday. It was a time when...[Read More]
23/05/2014I attended the International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Jacob Javits Center on Sunday. There were miles of aisles and it almost seemed daunting, except, of course, that I am looking at furniture. And there were some great things to see. Foremost...[Read More]
Jolyon Warwick James06/05/2014Editor's Note: Jolyon Warwick James, The Australia Art and Antique Dealers Association President, published on AAD the following "three critical" questions about what Australia's Artist Resale Royalty scheme has really been doing, in September of...[Read More]
04/05/2014There are a number of false claims about ivory that are currently circulating in the news. The biggest false claim is that New York is the second largest ivory market in the world. I don’t know where or how this fact was established, but anyone...[Read More]
19/04/2014I attended a conference a week or so ago, hosted by the Committee for Cultural Policy, a “non-profit organization that informs the public on policies and laws that affect the international movement of cultural property.” Basically, the...[Read More]
Elliot Lee14/04/2014There has been a very strange whiff concerning the Artist's Resale Right (ARR), ever since it was brought to our attention on AAD, back in 2011 by the British Art Dealer, John Robertson. I shan't go into the details of the Right here, we've all read...[Read More]
10/04/2014The television show “Vice” airs on HBO on Friday nights and offers in-depth coverage of news, or perhaps I should say, a more visceral reality based coverage of the news. I watched because one of the segments was on the vanishing rhino...[Read More]
07/04/2014Robert K. Sweeney, an Assemblyman from Lindenhurst, NY, wants to ban the sale of all ivory in New York State. This applies to both new and old ivory. The repercussions of such an action are enormous and I would like to point out just a few of them....[Read More]
07/04/2014The French grape vine was put under siege in the 19th century by an aphid commonly known as the 'grape phylloxera' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_French_Wine_Blight).
There could have been a host of responses to the threat including an embargo on...[Read More]
27/03/2014In trying to parse all the details that go into the ban of all ivory products into the US and the banning of those products for sale across state lines by the Fish and Wildlife Service, it is clear that a public relations effort is being launched to...[Read More]
12/03/2014March 7, 2014
VIA EMAIL AND FACSIMILE
AADLA - www.aadla.org
NAADAA - www.naadaa.org
Daniel M. Ashe?Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1849 C Street NW, Room 3331 Washington, DC 20240?Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.?Fax: 202 208-6965
Re:...[Read More]
Elliot Lee29/01/2014What on earth is a Puzzle Jug?
I asked that question last October, to which the interim Chairman of TEFAF, and 5th generation dealer at Aronson Antiquaires, Robert Aronson, replied via twitter, with an invitation to come visit PAN Amsterdam and...[Read More]
14/01/2014Vetting is the process used at fairs of looking at an object by a committee of experts to determine both the authenticity of a piece and the accuracy of the label describing the object. It was the cause celebre of the International Show when it was...[Read More]
Laure Kaltenbach20/12/2013Creativity and cultural diversity are key assets for Europe in the international competition, but also a meaningful stop signal to the demagogic “Europebashing”. I am delighted that AAD participates to the empowerment of Culture. I am deeply...[Read More]
18/12/2013From time to time, I drive through a village in Albany County called Preston Hollow. The town used to have a number of antiques shops, but in winter, nothing is open so I am not certain how many remain. The road through Preston Hollow, Route 145, goes by...[Read More]
Margie FitzSimons19/11/2013To review the basics of this case: Radu Dogaru, the one whose mother, Olga, first said she burned all of the above art and then retracted her statement, Alexandru Bitu, and Eugen Darie, who described bringing the paintings in a car to Romania, confessed...[Read More]
Lewis Baer17/11/2013Irrevocable Bids
Lots with this symbol "" indicate that a party has provided Sotheby's with an irrevocable bid on the lot that will be executed during the sale at a value that ensures the lot will sell. The irrevocable bidder, who may bid in excess of...[Read More]
Tom Higginson10/11/2013“I am sick and tired of war. Its glory is all moonshine… War is hell” - General Sherman
Today is Remembrance Sunday in England. Ninety five years ago tomorrow, at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of November 1918 the guns ceased...[Read More]
Robert Alexander Boyle09/10/2013
Beyond the pox that Ann Freedman and Knoedler Gallery has given the art world, this past summer saw in the New York Post and New York Times print the musings and taunts of a self-confessed forger. This annoying person originally from Nyack, NY and once...[Read More]
Tom Higginson11/09/2013( A ‘who done it’ with apologies to Andras Vajda.)
“Slumped on his desk, weak and dying,
There the shattered dealer lay,
Whilst around him, staff were crying,
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John R Walker07/09/2013Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response...[Read More]
Lewis Baer06/09/2013The (hot) summer of 2013 is still upon us in New York City, but telling the temperature in the art and antiques business is a bit more problematic. After the universal effects of “The Great Recession”, are things improving, getting worse, or...[Read More]
Rick Bevilaqua11/08/2013Pricing, as it relates to value, is the subject of a fascinating book by William Poundstone, “Priceless: The myth of fair value (and how to take advantage of it), Hill and Wang, New York, 2010. The book was recommended to me by Wayne Jordan, who...[Read More]