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Four big stories dominated the art world this week: On the upcoming cover of The New Yorker, a courtroom artist’s sketch of Trump. Whistler’s Mother re-visits Philadelphia (last seen in …

RT sent me a midcentury painted mosaic tile plaque, a curious image of a yellow fern with green and red foliage signed EC or CC Bealle. The work has been …

Somebody in Honolulu called me. He lost four pieces of Asian art in a move, the fault of the moving company. Sadly, four rare Chinese porcelain vessels. He asked for …

TY sent me a pink blown glass swan, and a green blown glass swordfish, about a foot tall each. The swan is Italian (Murano), the swordfish is Mexican “end of …

My southern grandmother, Ruth Sophia, and her family loved tea. Aunt Kathleen and the elder Aunt Sylvia drank tea all day long in old Saint Louis. I inherited that love, …

For a year I’ve appraised items in Paradise CA destroyed in the fire of 2018. I’m amazed at the variety of objects treasured and collected by many folks in that …

I get in trouble because I make connections which may not exist. On the other hand, I succeed in drawing conclusions because of my experience with connections which SHOULD exist. …

JH inherited this twenty-six-inch-tall sculpture. She knows a Santa Barbara artist with a Greek name created it. I found that artist, our local genius in metal, Aristides Burton Demetrious (1932-2021) …

Sad but true…I need a hip replacement, and can hardly walk these days. So my partner bought me a 1950s rolling medical stool at a thrift store. I refuse to …

This tandem sat in a garage, then a storage locker for 25 years. Twelve years ago a bike shop repainted and “repaired” it, then it went back in storage. The …