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Single-owner collection of oil and petroliana will be auctioned online
FULLERTON, CA.- A massive single-owner collection of oil and petroliana (gas station collectibles), especially items pertaining to Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), plus other items, will come up for bid in a live online auction scheduled for Sunday, July 25th, by Appraisal & Estate Sale Specialists, Inc., nearly 500 lots in all, beginning promptly at 3 pm Pacific time. We are excited to bring this single-family collection to auction, as both husband and wife were passionate collectors, said Dan Wilson, co-owner of Appraisal & Estate Sale Specialists, Inc., with Suki Hilger. Albert, or Big Al as his friends called him, worked for the Atlantic Richfield Company in California for more than thirty years and collected petroliana, while his wife loved her jewelry and glass. Together, they raised two daughters and traveled all around the country. In addition to the oil and petroliana collectibles, the auc ... More

Intersect Aspen announces details of August 1-5 pop-up art fair
NEW YORK, NY.- This years pop-up edition of Intersect Aspen, taking place August 1 through 5 at the Aspen Ice Garden, will showcase 30 galleries from 26 cities, and will feature a wide array of special programming taking place daily. Intersect Aspen will open with a VIP Preview Brunch on Sunday, August 1 from 10am to 11am, followed by a Public Opening Reception from 11am to 12pm. The Fair will be open to the public daily, August 1 through 5 from 11am to 5pm, and will also be presented online at Artsy.net from August 1-19, 2021. Intersect Aspens VIP Closing Breakfast hosted by UOVO will take place from 10am to 11am on August 5. Aspen Film will present four acclaimed animated short films from its 2020 and 2021 OscarÂ®-qualifying Shortsfests, screening at the Fair each evening at 5pm. The Fair will host a Shoppable Object Space featuring creations from Anderson ... More

Kristen Richards, 69, dies; Reshaped architecture journalism online
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Kristen Richards, a former shampoo model, off-off-Broadway actress and art gallery owner who in the early 2000s helped revolutionize the world of architecture and design journalism with a scrappy website called ArchNewsNow, died July 1 in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She was 69. Her husband, George Yates, said the cause was lung cancer. Before ArchNewsNow, the world of architectural journalism was fractured and siloed, with a few must-read critics and magazines towering over local and academic writers who toiled in near-anonymity. Richards changed all that. ArchNewsNow, which she published several times a week both online and as an email newsletter, summarized dozens of articles from outlets large and small, from magazines, newspapers, blogs and academic websites, and presented them with a wry, informed ... More

Bernette Ford, who made children's books more diverse, dies at 70
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Bernette G. Ford, who as an author and editor was a leading advocate of making childrens books more diverse and making sure that people of color had opportunities to write and illustrate them, died June 20 at her home in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. She was 70. Her daughter, Olivia G. Ford, said the cause was lung cancer. Ford, whose resume included vice presidencies at Grosset & Dunlap and then at Scholastic Books, where she founded the Cartwheel imprint in 1991, was among the first Black executives at a major childrens book publisher. In 2002 she formed her own company, Color-Bridge Books, which consulted on and packaged a range of books for young people. She also wrote or collaborated on a variety of childrens books, including Bright Eyes, Brown Skin, written with Cheryl Willis Hudson ... More

Paul Huntley, hair master of Broadway and Hollywood, is dead at 88
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Paul Huntley, the hair stylist and wig designer who gave Carol Channing her expansive bouffant in Hello, Dolly!, Alan Cumming his plastered curl in Cabaret and Sutton Foster her golden bob in Anything Goes, died Friday in London. He was 88. His death was confirmed by a friend, Liz Carboni, who said he had been hospitalized for a lung infection. Huntley left New York for London, his native city, in February, and made clear in an interview with The New York Times that his work on Diana: The Musical, which is to begin performances on Broadway in November, would be his last. The pandemic, he said, had dried up opportunities, and his fractured hip was hurting. In a 60-year career, Huntley styled hair and created wigs for more than 200 shows, including The Elephant Man, Chicago and Cats. He was so respected that ... More

Cannes: Anatomy of a standing ovation for 'The French Dispatch'
CANNES (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Wes Anderson has been waiting a long time for The French Dispatch to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. A star-studded comedic anthology about the final issue of a literary magazine, The French Dispatch was meant to debut here last year until the pandemic prevented the festival from being held. Instead of putting his movie out in the interim, Anderson held on to it for another year, and at Monday nights glitzy Cannes premiere, he finally got his wish. So did the film festival. Cannes runs mainly on auteur worship and movie stars, and The French Dispatch offered heaping helpings of both. Cast members, including TimothÃ©e Chalamet, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Benicio Del Toro and Owen Wilson, all turned out in support of Andersons film, contributing to what is almost certainly the biggest movie premiere that has been held since ... More

Murano chandeliers, Tiffany & Co. period jewels and a Henrietta Berk painting offered at Michaan's
ALAMEDA, CA.- Highlighted at Michaans Auctions on July 17 are a Henrietta Berk painting and jewelry by Tiffany & Co. from the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods. A glass chandelier from a legendary Murano design house and a fabulous Pairpoint puffy glass lamp are featured in furniture and decorations. The pair of cloisonnÃ© enamel moon flasks is a great find for collectors of Asian art. In July Michaans offers property of great diversity and fine quality, from 19th-century sculpture to excellent Chinese porcelains from many periods. Fine silver in this sale includes the circa 1900 Jacobi & Jenkins sterling tea set ($1,300-$1,600). The July 20th auction features an impeccably designed emerald-cut fine diamond and platinum ring estimated at $20,000-$30,000. Michaans specialist and GIA gemologist, Elise Coronado, anticipates active bidding, following the 100% sell-through and ... More

Grounds For Sculpture announces new leadership appointments
HAMILTON, NJ.- Grounds For Sculpture today announced that it has appointed Kathleen Greene to the newly created position of Chief Audience Officer (CAO) and Marissa Reibstein to Chief Development Officer (CDO), strengthening its senior leadership team as the nonprofit builds on its mission to facilitate meaningful and accessible encounters with art and nature; support the work of leading contemporary sculptors; and serve as a vital hub for diverse communities within the tri-state region and beyond. Greene begins her role with Grounds For Sculpture as CAO on July 12, 2021 and Marissa stepped into her position as CDO on March 1, 2021. "Kathleen and Marissa bring decades of experience in innovative audience building through program creation, curatorial, and development work to Grounds For Sculpture, enhancing our ability to create impactful and equitable experiences for our ... More

Charlie Robinson, actor best known for 'Night Court,' dies at 75
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Charlie Robinson, the veteran actor whose best-known role was Mac, the good-natured and pragmatic court clerk, on the long-running NBC sitcom Night Court, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 75. His family confirmed the death, at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, in a statement. The family said that the cause was a heart attack and organ failure brought on by septic shock, and that Robinson also had adenocarcinoma, a cancer of the glandular cells. Robinsons acting career spanned six decades and included roles in television and film and onstage. His first credited onscreen appearance was in Jack Nicholsons directorial debut, Drive, He Said, in 1971. In 1984, he was cast in the role for which TV viewers would come to know him best: Macintosh Robinson, better known as Mac, on Night Court, then ... More

Car crash? Sexy French horror flick rattles Cannes
CANNES (AFP).- Cannes was punch-drunk from a wild, violent and sexy French shocker on Wednesday with critics unsure if they had witnessed the birth of a genre or the worst flop in years. "Titane" by French director Julia Ducournau tells the story of a young woman who has sex with cars, kills without a care, and pretends to be a boy despite being pregnant by a vintage Cadillac. Not the most common of plots. Ultra-violent scenes had some cinema-goers shield their eyes at the film's early festival screenings, as sharp intakes of breath alternated with nervous giggles. The movie still won a long standing ovation at its opening night on Tuesday. Acknowledging that some scenes were difficult to watch, Ducournau told reporters that even the goriest bits had narrative meaning. "I hate gratuitous violence, I really do," she said. The film drew some flattering comparisons with ... More

After virus closures, Shakespeare returns... outside
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON (AFP).- Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company has returned to the stage after an enforced 18-month absence due to the coronavirus pandemic -- at a specially built open-air theatre in the bard's home town. The first performance of "The Comedy of Errors" took place on Tuesday night, in front of a 250-strong crowd -- half the capacity until pandemic restrictions are eased in England next week. "This feels like the real spirit of Shakespeare. You've just got the words, the space and the audience," actor Greg Haiste told AFP before the show. "And you've got that wonderful shared experience which we've been missing so much over the last year and a half." The purpose-built Garden Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, central England, is next to the RSC's main indoor auditorium on the banks of the river Avon. It sits on 900 tonnes of rock and 30 tonnes ... More