I began reading the auction bid sheet, indifferently scanning the items at the Orientalia sale at one of my favorite auction houses. There were Asian artwork, screens, furniture, garden seats, bronze figurines and more. The auction house seems to…
Tag: theater
Fela, spirits and African masks
Posted in Music
I spotted it from across the room. An African mask, chalk-white, elongated face, hanging on a wall at one of my favorite auction houses on Sunday. I had seen several like it the day before,…
Playing with flea-market finds
Posted in Art
Flea markets, auctions, collectibles can wound up in the most interesting of places. I was reading a story in my local newspaper, the Philadephia Inquirer, this morning about a theater production that sells objects from its set before…