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Nye & Co. Auctioneers announces highlights included in the Chic & Antique Estate Treasures Auction
BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nye & Company Auctioneers two-day, online Chic and Antique Estate Treasures auction features property from the Bishop-Peabody-Metcalf family, the NAMITS collection, the estate of Peter Benchley (the author of JAWS, Princeton, N.J.), and several private collections. It is slated for Wednesday and Thursday, September 8th and 9th, at 10 am Eastern both days. Up for bid are thousands of lots of fine and decorative arts. Real time Internet bidding and absentee bidding will be provided by the popular platforms LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com, Bidsquare.com, as well as the Nye & Company website: www.nyeandcompany.com. Telephone bidding will also be available on a limited basis. This is going to be a special sale, said Andrew Holter, Director of Business Development at Nye & Company Auctioneers, ... More

National Building Museum announces Mabel O. Wilson as 2021 Vincent Scully Prize recipient
WASHINGTON, DC.- Today the National Building Museum announced that Mabel O. Wilson, the Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, is the 23rd recipient of the Museums annual Vincent Scully Prize. Established in 1999, the Scully Prize recognizes excellence in practice, scholarship, or criticism in architecture, historic preservation, and urban design. The award will be presented to Wilson on October 19 at an in-person event at the Museum. She joins esteemed past recipients, including Elizabeth Meyer, Robert Campbell and Inga Saffron. Wilson is an architect, scholar, researcher, artist, writer, and curator whose work focuses on Black culture and history and the ways they intersect with the built environment. She also is a professor in African American and African Diaspora Studies ... More

World's Fair of Money soars to more than $68 million at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- The Worlds Fair of Money came to Heritage Auctions over the last several days, and, appropriately, it was an extraordinary thrill ride as numerous world records were set on the way to a $68,776,095 auction total. U.S. Coins realized a total of $48,849,983, with perfect sell-through rates of 100% by value and by lots sold. World and Ancient Coins brought $19,926,112, with near-perfect sell-through rates of 99.4% by value and 98.9% by lots sold. Each total set a new ANA record. The previous record for U.S. Coins, set in 2008, was $41 million, while the previous ANA record for World and Ancient coins, set in 2020, was $11.1 million. We saw some really powerful bidding for trophy pieces from our collector clients Heritage Auctions Executive Vice President Todd Imhof said. We always feel honored when top connoisseurs entrust us with items from ... More

Carol S. Ward joins Lexington Historical Society as new Executive Director
LEXINGTON, MASS.- The Lexington Historical Society announced that Carol S. Ward will be the new Executive Director! Previously, Carol was the Director of One River School of Art and Design in Larchmont, New York, where she oversaw business, education, and administration oversight for the for-profit art school and contemporary art gallery. For the previous ten years, she served as Executive Director of the Morris-Jumel Mansion, an historic house museum and arts education center in Washington Heights, New York City. Her experience spanned a wide variety of departments including programming, education, curatorial, marketing, development, fundraising and board relations. Under her leadership, she increased the operating budget significantly and led the Mansion to record attendance. Here in Lexington, she will provide strategic ... More

A composer shows the way to give classical music swing
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Back in 1936, savvy listeners may have sensed that the novelty tune Rhythm Saved the World wasnt only about its nominal subject: the drummer boys who motivated Revolutionary War soldiers at the Battle of Bunker Hill. No, as played by Louis Armstrong, it was clear that the songs real subject was jazz itself, and its ability to conquer foreign lands and other genres with ease. This wasnt bluster. Berlin had already thrilled to fox trots in the 1920s. Stravinsky wasnt shy about his thirst for jazz. And Parisian audiences, including composers like Georges Auric, received Armstrong with rapture early in the 1930s. Yet audiences today arent often given the opportunity to appreciate the global impact of American improvisers on classical music. Among major American orchestras, the upcoming season features ... More

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts offers its Art Kit to 250 families
MONTREAL.- Forever seeking to make art universally accessible, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts created an Art Kit for families, with the support of the Foundation of Greater MontrÃ©al. To distribute 250 kits to as many families throughout the city, the Museum solicited the collaboration of 19 community organizations. The kit contains instructions and materials for a slew of fun educational activities that give families an opportunity to discover the Museum from home. To cap it off, there is also a family pass to the Museum, valid for one year. This introductory kit offers an inviting way to learn more about the history of the oldest art museum in Canada and seven representative artworks in its collection, created by artists Moridja Kitenge Banza, Shary Boyle, Aaron Curry, Annie Pootoogook, Christian Luycks and Tom Thomson as well as Front ... More

R. Murray Schafer, composer who heard nature's music, dies at 88
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- R. Murray Schafer, a Canadian composer and writer who brought the concept of the soundscape to widespread recognition and pioneered the field of acoustic ecology the relationship between sound, people and the environment died Aug. 14 at his home near Peterborough, Ontario. He was 88. The cause was dementia, his wife and collaborator, mezzo-soprano Eleanor James, said. Schafer was already an inventive avant-garde composer when he began researching the relationship between sound and the environment in the late 1960s. He had joined a noise abatement society but disagreed with its treatment of noise as a negative phenomenon. The sounds of the environment were changing rapidly, and it seemed that no one was documenting the changes, he recalled in his 2012 memoir, ... More

Marion Cotillard to be honoured by San Sebastian film festival
MADRID (AFP).- Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard will receive a lifetime achievement award at Spain's San Sebastian film festival next month, organisers said Tuesday. The 45-year-old, who won the Best Actress Academy Award for her role as Edith Piaf in "La Vie en Rose" will collect the festival's Donostia award during the event's opening ceremony on September 17, they said in a statement. Cotillard "has shone brightly in European and North American productions, putting equal talent into dramatic, comedy and action roles," the statement added. The actress has also appeared in Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris," and Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises." Past recipients of the Donostia award -- the festival's highest honour which is named after the Basque word for the coastal town of San Sebastian -- include actors Meryl Streep, ... More

Hong Kong censorship law to check old films for national security breaches
HONG KONG (AFP).- Hong Kong will scrutinise past films for national security breaches under a tough new censorship law announced on Tuesday in the latest blow to the financial hub's political and artistic freedoms. Authorities have embarked on a sweeping crackdown to root out Beijing's critics after huge and often violent democracy protests convulsed the city two years ago. A new China-imposed security law and an official campaign dubbed "Patriots rule Hong Kong" has since criminalised much dissent and strangled the democracy movement. Authorities previously announced in June that the city's censorship board would check any future films for content that breached the security law. But on Tuesday they unveiled a new hardened censorship law which would also cover any titles that had previously been given a green light. "Any film for public ... More

Larry Harlow, a salsa revolutionary
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In many ways, Larry Harlow one of the central figures of salsa and its defining label, Fania Records was a master at mixing the diverse musical connections between New York and the Caribbean. In a career that spanned six decades, he stitched together overlapping genres like rock, jazz and R&B and various Cuban genres like rumba, son and guaracha through intimate, soulful knowledge of both musical traditions. Harlow grew up in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and studied classical piano. His father, Buddy Kahn, was a Jewish mambo musician who led the house band at New Yorks Latin Quarter club. Musician and scholar Benjamin Lapidus writes in his new book that Jews were sponsoring Latin dances with live bands as early as the 1930s in New York City. Harlow came out of a tradition of mamboniks, Jews ... More