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February Issue 2006
Leigh Keno to be Keynote Speaker for The Charleston Art & Antiques Forum in March, 2006
A partnership between The Charleston Art & Antiques Forum and the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC, invigorates the 2006 Antiques Week, beginning Mar. 11, 2006.
Leigh Keno, one of the foremost dealers in American antiques, will deliver the 2006 keynote address for The Charleston Art & Antiques Forum. In addition to owning a premier gallery in New York City, Keno is a scholar, author and television host. Speaking on "New Discoveries in the Marketplace," he will give an insider look at rare discoveries that have turned up privately and at public auction, as well as the unusual places in which they were found. The event will be held at the Riviera Theater at 6pm on Mar. 12, 2006. Audience members will have the opportunity to meet the speaker at a gala reception following the lecture. Leigh Keno's appearance at the Forum is being generously underwritten by Bank of America Private Bank.
This Forum event marks Keno's first lecture in Charleston. "It is truly an honor and a pleasure to be part of this year's Forum. The quality of the 2006 speakers at The Charleston Art & Antiques Forum is incredible," Keno said, speaking from his office in New York. "Given my passion for historic homes and antiques, Charleston is one of my favorite cities in the world."
A graduate of Hamilton College, Keno worked as Director of the American Furniture department at William Doyle Galleries and as Vice President of Appraisals and specialist in American Furniture at Christie's Auction House. He opened Leigh Keno American Antiques in 1986 and has written articles for such publications as Art & Antiques, The Magazine Antiques and American Furniture. Keno was one of eleven distinguished Americans awarded the 2005 National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush.
Keno is perhaps best known nationally for appearances with his twin brother Leslie on the PBS program Antiques Roadshow. He and his brother are also co-hosts for Find! on PBS stations, a show celebrating design, style, antiques and furnishings. In 2000, the Keno twins joined author Joan Barzilay Freund to write the book Hidden Treasures: Searching for Masterpieces of American Furniture.
Tickets for the Keynote Address with Leigh Keno and Gala Reception are included in several ticket packages being offered by the Charleston Art & Antiques Forum or purchased individually for $75. For further information on this event and for the 2006 Forum schedule, visit (www.charlestonantiquesforum.org) or call 843/693-9669.
The third annual Antiques
Week in Charleston, SC, begins with The Charleston Art & Antiques
Forum's "Decorative Arts in the Age of Enlightenment"
which places particular focus on the exhibition Made in China:
Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at
Winterthur, opening Mar. 11, 2006, at the Gibbes Museum of
Art. The series of lectures and receptions with national
decorative arts experts will be held Mar. 11 - 15, 2006. All
proceeds from the 2006 Forum will benefit arts education and outreach
at the Gibbes. For museum hours and detailed information
on the exhibition, visit (www.gibbesmuseum.org).
Additional activities included in Antiques Week include the openings
of the 58th Annual Festival of Houses and Gardens and the Charleston
Symphony Orchestra's Designer Show House and Historic Charleston
Foundation's International Antiques Show, at which a vetted selection
of antiques will be offered for sale.
Information on the
International Antiques Show and the Festival of Houses and Garden
may be obtained through Historic Charleston Foundation at 843/720-1181
or at (www.historiccharleston.org). To contact the Charleston
Symphony Designer House, call 843/723-7528 or visit (www.charlestonsymphony.com).
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