Movies-as-History, Movies-as-Travel, Art / Auctions / Technology

This week, join Catherine and her guests, discussing movies-as-travel, movies-as-history and art / auctions / technology. Can't travel or bid for art works in - person presently? Let's Travel! has the answer: go to the movies to travel and to study history and tap into technology to bid. Reel vs. Real and a dash of Asian Art and Chinese Furniture.








Guests

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Lark E. Mason, Jr., CEO and Founder
iGavel, Inc.


As seen on PBS Television Series, The Antiques Roadshow, Mr. Mason began working with antiques at the age of 10 in Atlanta, Georgia. After completing his undergraduate and graduate degrees, he attended Sotheby's Works of Art Course in London and joined Sotheby's in New York. A director of online auctions for Sothebys.com, he, later, in 2003, founded iGavel.com, an international fine-arts and antiques auction site with worldwide consignment centers. Mr. Mason translated Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, by Wang Shi-Xiang, and Classic Chinese Furniture of the Qing Dynasty, by Tian Jiaqing. As a lecturer and author on the subject of Chinese furniture, he also advises museums and collectors worldwide.


Lark can be reached at larkmason@igavel.com







Andrew H. Lee, Moviegoer Par Excellence and Educator
New York University


A movie lover and a movie connoisseur, Andrew H. Lee is the Assistant Curator for History, Politics, European Studies, Soccer, and Politics at New York University, (NYU), where he is working on his doctorate in Contemporary European History. Currently teaching at New Jersey's Science & Technology University, (NJIT), he has also taught at the New School, and NYU. Andrew edited Scottsboro Alabama: A Story in Linoleum Cuts, which was published in 2002. He is on the executive of the International Association of Labour History Institutions, (IALHI).


Andrew can be contacted at andrew.lee@nyu.edu