The International Quilt Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is home to the world’s largest publicly held quilt collection. With quilts spanning five centuries and more than 55 countries, the […]
Author Archives: Nick Boschetto
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By Linda EatonJohn L. & Marjorie P. McGraw Director of Collections and the Senior Curator of Textiles at Winterthur Museum Until relatively recently, scholarship on women’s needlework has focused […]
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Recent Auction Results from Near & Far By Ken Hall A sculpture from the mid-1950s by Richard Stankiewicz (1922-1983) titled Tribal Diagram, made from found objects welded together, sold for […]
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This isn’t just a rocking chair for sale. It was, in 1974, the best seat in the house when Bob Dylan and The Band toured the United States in January and […]
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In eighteenth-century America, a girl was expected to grow up, get married, have children, and take care of a home. Because of the limits of her sphere, a girl received […]
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Recent Auction Results From Near & Far By Ken Hall A Fry visible “Mae West” gas pump made in America in the 1920s sold for CA$7,800 in an Advertising, Toys […]
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by Pat Raynock, Biologist and Audubon Collector As a career biologist, I have spent a lifetime looking at the beauty and beastliness of the natural world. I have benefited […]
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Gavels ‘n’ Paddles: ‘Tutti Fruiti’ Cartier bracelet, $1.34 million, Sotheby’s Recent Auction Results From Near & Far By Ken Hall A magnificent ‘Tutti Fruiti’ bracelet by Cartier, created circa 1930, […]
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Gavels ‘n’ Paddles: Lyrics to Hey Jude, $910,000, Julien’s Recent Auction Results From Near & Far By Ken Hall Paul McCartney’s handwritten lyrics to the Beatles song Hey Jude, used in […]
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by Erica Lome, Ph.D. One April morning, when Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was fishing in a stream outside the center of Concord, Massachusetts, he was distracted by a hawk as […]
