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Investing in Antiquties FORBES Article
Carrie Coolidge - 01/26/2008
Ancient Art has always been a serious fashionable collectable for educated investors. Michael H. Steinhardt believes there is money in antiquities. The legendardge-fund-manager-turned-full-time-philanthropist has quietly managed to assemble one of the largest and most important antiquities collections in the world. Now, he believes, its time has come."Ancient art has not appreciated much in value for a long time," says Steinhardt. "It has been under a certain
cloud because there are issues of provenance, which have made headlines in the last five- to 10-years and continue
to make headlines.
Now in America Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Press Release - 01/28/2007
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs opens February 3rd at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Over 380,000 tickets have already been sold. A few tickets for opening week are available, buy now to be among the first to see Tutankhamun in Philadelphia! Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs is in London beginning November,...
Forty Years of 'African Arts'
Herbert Cole - 02/01/2007
Herbert M. Cole looks at four decades of "African Arts" at UCLA and what the future may have in store for the journal and the field of African art. Without UCLA there would simply be no "African Arts."Celebrate African Arts, now entering into its fortieth year! Launched ambitiously in 1967, pledging a bilingual survey of all the...
Santa Fe Show Tribal Art Show Press Release 2006
Antiques and the Arts Weekly October 6th 2006 - 02/09/2006
Santa Fe Show Press Release 2006 Howard Nowes Ancient Art was a 1st time participant and brought classical antiquities, a roman marle head, wonderful greek pottery and tanagra figurines, west Mexican ceramics, textiles and wonderful tribal art from the congo as well as oceanic weaponds. In the article which reviewed the showm we had a piece...
A Grand Past Comes to Surface Ornate Moche Tombs Unearthed in Peru
By Guy Gugliotta - Washington Post Staff Writer - 02/15/2001
They dominated the coast of Peru for 700 years, long before the Inca existed. They tamed the great rivers of the Andes and used them to irrigate crops of corn, peppers, squash and beans. They killed their captured enemies and drank their blood.And when their leaders died, the Moche of northern Peru buried them in tombs filled with beautifully...
The Tablet and the Pen: Islamic Works from Turkey, Iran, and India
2006-02-18 until 2006-07-23 - 02/18/2006
Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Cambridge, MA, USAGeneral Inquiries: 617-495-9400Twenty-eight drawings primarily from the 15th through 18th centuries will be featured in The Tablet and the Pen: Drawings from the Islamic World, on display at Harvard’s Arthur M. Sackler Museum...
Review of the San Francisco Tribal Art Show February 2007
by Howard Nowes - 02/22/2007
Last week I returned from the San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts show, produced by Caskey-Lees. Caskey-Lees also produces the NY Tribal Art show at the Park Avenue Armory in May. The west coast weather was warm and the show was top notch. It is probably the premier Tribal art show in the country and the catalog makes a nice reference guide....
Magic in Ancient Egypt: Image, Word, and Reality
- 02/28/2007
Brooklyn MuseumDecember 22, 2006–September 28, 2008Special Exhibitions Hall, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor How the Egyptians, known throughout the ancient world for their expertise in magic, addressed the unknown forces of the universe is explored in this exhibition of twenty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's world-famous collection....
Radiance from the Rain Forest: Featherwork in Ancient Peru
MET - 02/28/2008
New Exhbition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Radiance from the Rain Forest: Featherwork in Ancient Peru
February 26, 2008–September 1, 2008
Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas—The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, 1st floor
Arts of Pacific Asia Show
March 22nd to the 25th 2007 - 03/01/2007
Caskey-Lees presents the 16th Annual Arts of Pacific Asia Show, March 22 to the 25th at the Gramercy Park Armory, Lexington Avenue and 28th Street, New York NY. This is an international upscale vetted event. Show hours are from 11:00 AM to7 PM Thursday Friday and Saturday, Sunday noon to 6. For more information go to Caskey-Lees website.
