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<updated>2014-01-18T00:00:00-05:00</updated>
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<title>New Rules for Deaccessioning in New York</title>
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<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[ New rules for the de-accessioning of objects from New York collecting institutions and regulation of the use of the funds from disposed items are the highlights of legislation being sponsored by Assemblyman Steve Englebright. The bill would require collecting institutions to adopt and publish a binding collection management policy and]]></summary>
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<title>Lauritzen Gardens Show Advisory Committee</title>
<link href="http://maineantiquedigest.com/stories/lauritzen-gardens-show-advisory-committee/3759" ></link>
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<updated>2013-09-26T00:00:00-04:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[ The Lauritzen Gardens Antique &amp; Garden Show has announced the inception of a national advisory committee comprising renowned design experts. Advisory committee members will help provide insight into current trends, recommendations for keynote speakers, direction on featured antiques dealers and ideas, and inspiration for the show. Members include Jeffrey Bilhuber,]]></summary>
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<title>Metropolitan Museum of Art to Be Open Seven Days a Week Starting July 1</title>
<link href="http://maineantiquedigest.com/stories/metropolitan-museum-of-art-to-be-open-seven-days-a-week-starting-july-1/3775" ></link>
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<updated>2013-07-01T00:00:00-04:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[ In late March, the Met announced that beginning on July 1 the museum will open to the public seven days a week, for the first time in 42 years. The new schedule will go into effect for both the museum’s main building on Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street in Manhattan]]></summary>
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<title>South Korea Hosts American Art</title>
<link href="http://maineantiquedigest.com/stories/south-korea-hosts-american-art/3767" ></link>
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<updated>2013-06-17T00:00:00-04:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[ 




The Cadwalader furniture and Charles Willson Peale’s portrait of John Cadwalader, his wife, Betsy Lloyd and daughter, Anne, in its newly restored frame, are on view at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, South Korea. Photo courtesy the Philadelphia Museum of Art.




Charles Willson Peale’s portrait of John Cadwalader, his]]></summary>
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<entry>
<title>Modern Nature: Georgia O’Keeffe and Lake George</title>
<link href="http://maineantiquedigest.com/stories/modern-nature-georgia-okeeffe-and-lake-george/3688" ></link>
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<updated>2013-06-15T00:00:00-04:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[  Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York, will be the site of an unusual major art exhibition beginning this June. The collection has received a $200,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, with additional support from the Charles R. Wood Foundation and other sources, to mount the first exhibition of]]></summary>
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<title>Saline Antiques Market to Fill Ann Arbor Gaps</title>
<link href="http://maineantiquedigest.com/stories/saline-antiques-market-to-fill-ann-arbor-gaps/3695" ></link>
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<updated>2013-06-15T00:00:00-04:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[ The new Saline Antiques Market will be held June 15-16, July 20-21, August 17-18, September 14-15, November 17, and December 8 at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds in Ann Arbor, Michigan.According to a press release, when the promoters of the Ann Arbor Antiques Market chose to refocus their efforts to]]></summary>
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<title>GLM Acquires the Pier Antiques Show and Antiques at the Armory</title>
<link href="http://maineantiquedigest.com/stories/glm-acquires-the-pier-antiques-show-and-antiques-at-the-armory/3838" ></link>
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<updated>2013-05-20T00:00:00-04:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[ Show producer GLM has acquired the Pier Antiques Show and Antiques at the Armory from Stella Show Management Company in a deal announced on May 20.
“Following the recent addition of the Miami National Antiques Show to our annual events, the acquisition of these established shows in New York further strengthens]]></summary>
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<title>Solomon Bell Cats Bring $73,000</title>
<link href="http://maineantiquedigest.com/stories/solomon-bell-cats-bring-73000/3786" ></link>
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<updated>2013-05-12T00:00:00-04:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[ 




Earthenware cats with lead and manganese glaze. “These are probably the best example of Strasburg, Virginia, redware figures that have ever been offered or sold in public,” the buyer told us. Photo courtesy Burt Long.




A pair of redware cats made by Strasburg, Virginia, potter Solomon Bell sold for $73,000 (no buyer’s]]></summary>
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<title>Rebel Collector Embraces Loisaida and Graffiti Art</title>
<link href="http://maineantiquedigest.com/stories/rebel-collector-embraces-loisaida-and-graffiti-art/3793" ></link>
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<updated>2013-05-12T00:00:00-04:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[ 




John Axelrod and his Australian terrier, Myrna Loy, with (untitled by the artist) Subway Door by Lee Quinones (b. 1960). The work is acrylic, oil stick, and spray enamel on a 37¾" x 27¼" section of a wooden New York City subway door. “This was part of a door between]]></summary>
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<title>Are Massachusetts Show Exhibitors Due a Dose of Philadelphia-Style Tax Medicine?</title>
<link href="http://maineantiquedigest.com/stories/are-massachusetts-show-exhibitors-due-a-dose-of-philadelphia-style-tax-medicine/3788" ></link>
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<updated>2013-05-12T00:00:00-04:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[ A fresh threat from a state taxation entity has emerged to bedevil show dealers, many of whom have not yet recovered from the Philadelphia dispute that cost them dearly last year.
The Philadelphia episode occurred when exhibitors at past shows began receiving dunning notices from a collection agency seeking retroactive “business income]]></summary>
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