LONDON.- A silver rose water dish with links to the Royal family, the Royal Ballet and one of the National Trust’s best loved gardens is for sale at the Fine Silver Sale at Bonhams on 22 June. The Messel dish, estimated at between £10,000-15,000 …
Part of Unfinished Cather Novel Added to University of Nebraska-Lincoln Archives
LINCOLN, NE (AP) .- A passage from Willa Cather’s unfinished and purportedly destroyed novel “Hard Punishments” was among a new collection of writings and mementos unveiled Thursday at the world’s largest archive devoted to the Pulitzer Prize-winning a…
Ryan O’Neal Donates Farrah Fawcett’s Red Swimsuit to Museum of American History
WASHINGTON, D.C.- In a special ceremony today, actress Farrah Fawcett’s nephew, Greg Walls, and actor Ryan O’Neal donated objects from the private collection of her estate to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The don…
Ryan O’Neal Donates Farrah Fawcett’s Red Swimsuit to Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
WASHINGTON, D.C.- In a special ceremony today, actress Farrah Fawcett’s nephew, Greg Walls, and actor Ryan O’Neal donated objects from the private collection of her estate to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The donation inc…
Nearly 3,000 Calligraphers in Japanese Break Out the Brushes for Annual New Year’s Ritual
TOKYO (REUTERS) .- Nearly 3,000 people gathered in Tokyo on Wednesday from as far away as Brazil to break out their calligraphy brushes for an annual new year’s ritual to bring in 2011. Traditionally, people across Japan use ink brushes and paper to wr…
Pot o’ Gold: Family’s Old Vase Fetches $83 Million at Small Suburban London Auction House
LONDON (AP).- It was just an old Chinese vase that had been in the family for 80 years. It turned out to be much more. When the intricately painted 18th-century piece went on the block at Bainbridges, a small suburban London auction house, it sold for…
Pot o’ Gold: Family’s Old Vase Fetches $83 Million
LONDON (AP).- It was just an old Chinese vase that had been in the family for 80 years. It turned out to be much more. When the intricately painted 18th-century piece went on the block at Bainbridges, a small suburban London auction house, it sold for…
John Singer Sargent’s Sea Paintings Focus of UK Show
LONDON (REUTERS).- U.S. artist John Singer Sargent was best known for his society portraits of subjects ranging from European beauties to U.S. presidents, which earned him comparisons to 17th century Flemish master Anthony van Dyck. But “Sargent and th…