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Nick Boschetto
Holiday Marketing Checklist: Your Schedule for the Season of Sales
by Sloane Middleton Mann It’s the most wonderful time of the year—especially if you’re selling unique, one-of-a-kind, and easily giftable items. The holidays have the potential to break your sales records from the entire rest of the year. But with…
Through the Years: A Time Capsule is Opened
By Donald-Brian Johnson | All photos courtesy of Lisa Pektor In the little Minnesota town where I grew up, there’s a time capsule. It sits next to the Civil War cannon in the city park. On the concrete slab marking…
Curating the Unexpected: The Joy of Flawed Chinese Export Porcelain
by Shirley M. Mueller, M.D. “Look at me,” the large, not-to-be-missed porcelain cried out. And I did. It was not unlike the way cats meow at me in an animal shelter or the way dogs bark insistently until my eyes…
From Collector to Curator: Turning Passion into Provenance
by Laurence Carpenter How a personal obsession became a professional pursuit—and what I learned about the stories objects can tell. When I bought my first piece of Oasis memorabilia in the mid-1990s, I wasn’t thinking about provenance, investment, or the…
Ogunquit Museum of American Art and Wells Public Library Announce Second Annual Story Trees by the Sea Event December 13 & 14, 2025
OGUNQUIT, ME — The Ogunquit Museum of American Art (OMAA) announces the return of the Story Trees by the Sea event, taking place on Saturday and Sunday, December 13th and 14th, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This second annual…
Allan Rohan Crite: Urban Glory, opening October 23 at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
BOSTON, MA – Around 1919, a young art student visited the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for the first time, and found himself in awe of its Courtyard and global collection. Now, more than a century later, we are honored to…
Final Weeks to see Gisela McDaniel’s First Solo Museum Exhibition at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art – On View through November 16, 2025
Gisela McDaniel, Prima, Nieta, Nåna: Pasifika Bailadora, 2021 Oil on panel, found object, sound, 45 x 32 x 6 in. © Gisela McDaniel. Image courtesy the artist and Pilar Corrias, London. OGUNQUIT, ME — Don’t miss the final weeks of the exhibition…
Restoring an Antique Apothecary Cabinet: From Candy Shop Display to Showpiece: a Step-by-Step Guide
By Amy from 2ndlife.furniture.restoration on YouTube Have you ever wondered how to restore antique furniture and bring it back to life? In this post, I’ll walk you step by step through my furniture restoration project: an old apothecary cabinet I…
Decorative Arts Trust Prize for Excellence and Innovation Awarded to The Digital Porcelain Rooms Project
Media, PA — The Decorative Arts Trust is thrilled to announce that the 2025 Prize for Excellence and Innovation will be awarded to The Digital Porcelain Rooms Project, a collaboration between the Custard Institute for Spanish Art and Culture at…