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Princeton Receives $300 Million Manuscript Collection

Princeton / February 19th, 2015

Princeton University has acquired an extraordinary collection of some 2,500 rare printed books and manuscripts valued at $300 million, the largest gift ever to the university. Musician, musicologist, bibliophile and philanthropist William H. Scheide, a 1936 Princeton University alumnus who ...

Boston in Search of Three Leaders for its Major Museums

Boston Globe / February 17th, 2015

Boston is losing three museum directors with big shoes to fill. Each one, including Malcolm Rogers of the Museum of Fine Arts; Anne Hawley of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; and Thomas Lentz of the Harvard Art Museums, has resigned within the year, after decades of leadership and ...

Thieves Crash SUV Into SF Museum in Gold Heist

LA Times / January 27th, 2015

Three masked men drove a SUV through the glass front of the Wells Fargo History Museum in San Francisco and stole a handful of historic gold nuggets early on Tuesday morning.

Couple Sues Gallery Over Fake Norman Rockwell

Courthouse News / January 5th, 2015

A Manhattan art gallery passed off a MobilOil advertisement as a "guaranteed" Norman Rockwell, for which it charged $347,437, a couple claims in court...

Chicagoans Question Design, Location of Lucas Museum

Chicago Tribune / November 10th, 2014

Architect's renderings of the planned Lucas Museum of Narrative Art are not winning much support for the project in Chicago.

Grateful Dead's First Truck Could Fetch $500K at Auction

ArtfixDaily / October 29th, 2014

A 1960s counterculture icon comes to auction in the form of a rediscovered 1949 Studebaker truck that served as the Grateful Dead's first vehicle.

MFA Boston to Present "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Selections from the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection"

ArtfixDaily / October 8th, 2014

Hundreds of wall labels at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, read “Gift of Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf.” In fact, nearly 3,000 works...

Record Price Set for Wine at Auction in Hong Kong

ArtfixDaily / October 6th, 2014

An Asian-based buyer picked up the most expensive lot of wine ever sold, with 114 bottles of Burgundy garnering HK$12,556,250 ($1.6 million) on Oct. 4.

Possible World's Biggest Shoe Walks Onto 'Antiques Roadshow'

PBS / September 23rd, 2014

A really big shoe once belonging to Robert Wardlaw, the Midwesterner known as the tallest man ever recorded, was brought into a PBS "Antiques Roadshow" taping.

Monterey Car Week Auctions Fetch Record $400 Million

Fox Sports / August 19th, 2014

Monterey Car Week in Calif. raised a record $400m total for classic cars this year, 28 percent higher than the total for 2013, despite the fact that...

'Antiques Roadshow' Appraisers Uncover $1 Million Baseball Collection

Star Tribune / August 11th, 2014

A collection of 1870s baseball memorabilia was brought to the New York City taping of PBS' popular 'Antiques Roadshow' series.

China's Poly Culture Could Buy Bonhams Auction House

Daily Mail / August 11th, 2014

China's largest auction house is reportedly the front runner in bids for 200-year-old auction house Bonhams. Two private equity firms...

MFA Boston to Showcase Hollywood Glamour in Fall Exhibition

ArtfixDaily / August 5th, 2014

Adornments from the golden age of the silver screen will go on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this fall. “Hollywood Glamour: Fashion and Jewelry from the Silver Screen” will present designer gowns and exquisite jewelry from the 1930s and ‘40s...

Florida Collector of Asian Art Sues Ringling Museum

Herald Tribune / July 31st, 2014

A new building at the Ringling museum in Florida might open as scheduled in January 2016 without the $30 million collection meant to go inside.

George Lucas Names Architects for His Chicago Museum

Chicago Tribune / July 29th, 2014

Billionaire filmmaker George Lucas made a surprise announcement Tuesday, naming a team of avant-garde architects for his future museum in Chicago.

Imperial War Museum in London Reopens After $70 Million Renovation

Newsday / July 26th, 2014

The Imperial War Museum in London recently reopened in time to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I.

New York's African Art Museum Scales Down Plans

Chronicle of Philanthropy / July 23rd, 2014

After repeatedly postponing completion of a new home facing Central Park, the Museum for African Art has reduced the budget and downsized ambitious design plans amid stagnant fundraising...

Prince’s Palace of Monaco to Sell Off Contents of Napoleon Museum

Agence France-Presse / July 2nd, 2014

The Prince’s Palace of Monaco will auction the contents of its museum dedicated to Napoleon this November in what experts describe as the “sale of the century” for fans of the period.

Chicago Wins George Lucas Museum

NBC Chicago / June 24th, 2014

The city of Chicago triumphed in luring 'Star Wars' creator George Lucas to build his museum there. His 500,000-piece collection of...

Heritage Sues After Luxury Accessories Expert Decamps for Christie's

ArtfixDaily / June 19th, 2014

Heritage Auctions filed a $60 million lawsuit against Christie's on Friday over the departure of a key staffer in the burgeoning luxury accessories category...