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Preservation: The Stanton-Davis homestead
May 8, 2013 | By Katrine Ames
Here in this shell of a house,
This house that is struggling to be,
Hope must have been
The first to move in,
And waited to welcome me.
But hope isn't easy to see.
This lovely tribute to the White House in Leonard Bernstein and Allan Jay Lerner's 1976 musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue would make a perfect anthem for a house of far humbler origins, but one that predates it by more than 120 years and has a cultural history that very few private residences can claim. In 1670 Thomas Stanton, a native-born Englishman who learned the Algonquin language and became a celebrated translator, negotiator, and friend of both Native American tribes and colonists, built a handsome wood-shingled house near Stonington, Connecticut. Eleven generations of the family have occupied it, and the current paterfamilias, John W. Davis, still farms the fields that his ancestor received as a gift from the Pequots and began working in 1654. "We haven't missed a crop since," Davis says. "I'll be…» More
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Exhibition openings
May 8, 2013 | May 11
"American Encounters: Genre Painting and Everyday Life" opens at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK
"Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: Selections from the ‘Scherzi' and ‘Capricci'" opens at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
May 12
"Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909-1929: When Art Danced with Music" opens at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
May 15
"Gardening by the Book: Celebrating 100 Years of the Garden Club of America" opens at the Grolier Club, New York, NY
May 17
"Modern Meals: Remaking American Foods from Farm to Kitchen" opens at the the Wolfsonian Museum-Florida International University, Miami Beach, FL. [Corn: The Food of the Nation, poster designed by Lloyd Harrison, 1918. Wolfsonian, Florida International University, Miami Beach; gift of Henry S. Hacker.]
"Photographic Wonders: American Daguerreotypes from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art" opens at the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH
May 18
"Romare Beard…» More
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Shows and fairs
May 8, 2013 | May 10-12 52nd Shenandoah Antiques Expo, Fishersville, VA heritagepromotions.net
May 10-12 Wayside Inn Antiques Show, Sudbury, MA waysideantiquesshow.org
May 15 Brimfield's "Heart-O-The-Mart," Brimfield, MA brimfield-hotm.com.
May 17-18 Greater York Antiques Show, West York, PA jimburkantiqueshows.net
May 25-26 Rhinebeck Antiques Fair, Rhinebeck, NY rhinebecksantiquesfair.com
May 30-June 2 Las Vegas Antique Jewelry and Watch Show, Las Vegas, NV vegasantiquejewelry.com
June 6-16 Olympia International Art and Antiques Fair olympia-art-antiques.com
June 13-19 Art Antiques London, London, UK haughton.com
June 14-15 Antiques in the Valley, Oley, PA oleyvalleyantiqueshow.org» More
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Auctions
May 8, 2013 | May 10 Weekly Friday evening auction at Auctionata online auctionata.com
May 17 "American and European Works of Art" at Skinner, Boston, MA skinnerinc.com
May 18 "Treasures of Louis C. Tiffany from the Garden Museum, Part 2" at Michaan's Auctions, Alameda, CA michaans.com
May 21 "English and Continental Furniture and Decorative Arts" at Freeman's Auctions, Philadelphia, PA freemansauction.com
May 22 "American Art" at Bonhams, New York, NY bonhams.com
May 26 "Folk Out Loud!" at Material Culture, Philadelphia, PA materialculture.com
June 9 "American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists" at Freeman's Auctions, Philadelphia, PA freemansauction.com» More
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Japanese bamboo art: A living tradition
May 8, 2013 | Basket weaving is one of the most ancient of all decorative crafts. It is thought that the idea to create vessels by interweaving twigs was conceived around the same time as the idea to chip shards of flint into arrowheads. Fragments of Neolithic-age pottery reveal that long before the invention of the wheel, potters molded clay around woven basket forms, while remnants of other Stone Age pottery bear surface decoration imitating basketwork. Though fired pottery is more durable than baskets, thanks to the arid climate of ancient Egypt many of the world's oldest baskets and basket fragments have been unearthed there, dating some three thousand years before Christ. Indeed, wherever there were twigs, reeds, tall grasses, or other weavable plants, basketry thrived.
Some of history's most beautiful baskets were produced in Japan, where the craft of plaiting bamboo was initially practiced on a utilitarian level during the Jômon period (10,000-300 bc). Bamboo, a grass, proliferate…» More
Pickle Dish, American China Manufactory (Bonnin and Morris), Philadelphia, 1771-72. Soft-paste porcelain with lead glaze; height 4 3/16, width 4 1/2
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