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(Auction)Dr. Werner Muensterberger's African Art Collection
Werner Muensterberger's Collecting: An Unruly Passion was first published in 1994 by Princeton University Press. Copies are available on Amazon (www.amazon.com) and other used-book Web sites. One must get to the end of the book to discover the doctor believed that collecting, if kept within bounds, could be a healthy ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Mobile Antiques Web Sites
Newport, Rhode Island, antiques shops listing as seen on an Android smartphone.Computer Column #263by John P. Reid, [email protected] value of Web site ownership to antiquers was discussed in the last two columns along with steps for creating mobile versions of Web sites. This month some interesting mobile antiques Web sites ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fire Screen "Possibly" Going Back to White House
The 471/2" x 27" carved giltwood fire screen, possibly by French cabinetmaker Pierre-Antoine Bellange (circa 1760-1844), sold to an unidentified phone bidder for $22,420 (est. $2000/4000).Still Life by Anton Faistauer (1887-1930), an important Austrian Modernist, sold for $112,100 (est. $30,000/40,000). The 26" x 35" oil on canvas makes evident that ... (Read More)
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(Feature)A Box-Lot Blue Pickle, "Wonderfully Imperfect" Stirs Fuss on eBay
Kim Kokles is shown holding his new blue pickle with an old favorite-a colored-enamel back bar bottle, a "Yellowstone Whiskey" with a full-color view of the grand falls. Most of the bottles represented in his bar bottle collection have color depictions relating to the product brand. This photo, Kokles added, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rhinebeck Antiques Fair: July Show Canceled and Fall Date Changed
by Fran KramerAt press time, Rhinebeck Antiques Fair manager Bruce Garrett said that the dates for the October 2012 show have "a 99.9% chance" to be changed from the Columbus Day weekend dates of October 6 and 7 to October 13 and 14. The show's Web site indicates the "new ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)MESDA Journal Moves On Line
The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) is releasing its Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts in a new on-line format. The Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts was established in 1975 as a print publication and over the years has published seminal articles in the field, providing an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)California Resale Royalty Act Ruled Unconstitutional
by Daniel GrantThe California Resale Royalty Act (CRRA), which requires the payment to artists of 5% of the profit when their work is sold on the secondary market and either the seller resides in California or the sale takes place in California, was passed in 1976. CRRA was struck down ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Whitaker Couture Auction Filmed by Bravo
Estimated at $800/1200, the Chinese embroidered throne cover, 18th or 19th century, sold for $33,600. The 411/2" x 511/2" yellow-gold silk tapestry was elaborately embroidered with a gold dragon in couched metallic threads surrounded by cloud bands and Buddhist symbols enclosed by a border of chrysanthemums within couched gold thread, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)NEA Grant to Help Winterthur Digitize
The Winterthur Museum is one of 788 not-for-profit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide to receive a National Endowment for the Arts Works grant. Winterthur will use the grant to scan, photograph, and digitize its collection of prints, maps, watercolors, and other paper arts.With the grant, Winterthur will employ ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Outsider Art Fair Moves to New Location
Sanford L. Smith's Outsider Art Fair in New York City will take place January 31-February 3, 2013, at a new location in Chelsea: Center548 (548 West 22nd Street), the former DIA Center for the Arts.In a press release, Smith wrote, "Twenty-one years ago, when the Outsider Art Fair debuted at ... (Read More)
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