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WORLD MARKETPLACE NEWS with Managing Editor Judy Gonyeau

NYT – With the release FORT MYERS, FL – Do old body parts mix well with gems and
crystals? That is what Beth Meyer thought as she placed a human
of My Name is Barbara,
Ms. Streisand shares not skull inside a glass display case there and surrounded it with quartz
only her life story but towers and other crystals. Not
how her home is a reflec- wanting to part with it, she put a
tion of her good taste and “really high price on it” of $4,000.
– her collecting habit. Later that week, while Meyer was
Regarding decor, paint- unpacking new vintage stock for the
ings are everywhere, out- shop, a deputy with the Lee County
side the bathroom, up the Sheriff’s Office came in to question
main staircase, in the bath- her about the skull. It is a misde-
room. There are oils by John Singer Sargent and Thomas Hart Benton, meanor in Florida to knowingly buy
portraits by Ammi Phillips and Mary Cassatt. A wall holds one of or sell human remains. Dr. Phoebe Stubblefield, the director of the
Gilbert Stuart’s George Washingtons. Some of the paintings are by University of Florida’s C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory,
Streisand, including a portrait of Sammie, her late Coton de Tulear, said that she was not surprised to learn that a human skull had been
whose fur is affixed to the canvas. One, her son, Jason Gould, did. But to listed for sale. Calhoun said, “Beth, if it’s Native American, then it
get the best glimpse into her collecting habits, check out the interview needs to be in a ceremony for burial,” according to Meyer, who
done by Gayle King during a recent visit to Barbara’s home here: added, “It would be so interesting to be a part of that.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J761AN9Rmc

JAPAN – Japan, a global icon of
ARTDAILY – Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion is the next modernity and futurism, is
theme for the Costume Institute’s exhibition coming next May. experiencing a deep yearning for
Composed of 250 garments and accessories from the Museum’s perma- its Showa era (1926 to 1989)
nent collection and held in the Tisch Galleries, Sleeping Beauties will be heritage. “Nostalgic tourism,”
an immersive experience centering on pieces driven by its retro city branding, is
with what Andrew Bolton, curator-in-charge more than just a passing trend.
of the Costume Institute called “inherent It reflects Japan’s desire to recon-
vices,” meaning that because of the internal nect with its roots and find solace
characteristics of the material involved, they in simpler times. Tokyo’s neigh-
had deteriorated too much to be displayed borhoods and districts blend historical architecture, vintage
on mannequins. Instead, they will be businesses, and cultural events to evoke Showa-era nostalgia. From
interred in glass “coffins,” hovering flat for neighborhoods and districts to cozy cafes and themed izakayas, people
the viewer to see, while near them a ghostly are flocking to celebrate Japan’s vintage cultural heritage.
hologram, a la Kate Moss in her Alexander
McQueen dress, may appear, allowing the garment to come back to
some sort of three-dimensional life. Surrounding approximately 12 or NYPOST – The owners of an Upper East Side
15 of these relics will be more contemporary garments that share a creative antiques store are being sued by a series of
dimension rooted (no pun intended) in the natural world. “You will be clients who claim they were ripped off and had
able to ask it questions,” Bolton said. “And it will answer.” their heirlooms trashed. The antique owners
accuse Sara’s Antiques proprietors Sayeh
Sassouni Khorshad, and her husband Vahid Peter
NEW YORK CITY – Three paintings by Paul Cézanne that a Swiss Khorshad, who goes by Peter, of selling their
museum foundation said it had to sell to ward off insolvency fetched valuables and keeping the cash themselves,
$52.5 million, with buyer’s fees, at a handing back one-off pieces badly damaged,
Christie’s auction in New York on or losing them entirely. One customer who is
November 9th. Markus Stegmann, suing, Kimberly Taylor, told The Post she aimed to sell a collection of
director of the Museum Langmatt in jewelry, art, home décor, and furniture, which was appraised at
Baden, Switzerland, said that after $650,000. Taylor says in her suit that the Khorshads “engaged in a
subtracting buyer’s fees, its parent foun- pattern of self-dealing and lying” and now her bracelets are missing
dation will reap 42.3 million Swiss along with another $100,000 of her treasures.
francs (nearly $46.9 million) from the
sale of the three paintings, enough to keep the museum operating. The PEARLAND, TX – Our deepest
money will be used to create an endowment that will secure the museum’s sympathies to Cole’s Antique
future. “This is a decisive milestone for us,” Stegmann said. “We were Village and Flea Market in
entertaining all kinds of possible scenarios given a very poor market Pearland, Texas, after a shooting
environment. It’s a relief.” on the evening of November 12.
As of November 13, the police
reported that when officers arrived
COUNTRY GAZETTE – An evening dinner menu at the scene, they found five people shot – three adults and two
for first-class passengers onboard the Titanic has juveniles. All five victims were taken to area hospitals, where one of
sold for more than £80,000 ($98,200. U.S.) at the juveniles was later pronounced dead. Police did not provide
auction. The dinner—including oysters, beef, details about the other victims’ conditions. Investigators said there
spring lamb, and mallard duck—was served on the was an argument between two people that escalated to an exchange
evening of April 11, 1912, after the liner left of gunfire. Police believe the children were just caught in the crossfire.
Queenstown in Ireland for New York during its The shooting was a shock to the Pearland community – and our
fateful maiden voyage. The 6.25 x 4.25 inch menu antiques and collectibles community.
bears an embossed red White Star Line burgee.

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