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(Computer Article)Converting Web Sites for Mobile Viewing
Computer Column #282by John P. Reid, [email protected] photo of a smartphone viewing a mobile Web site is shown to scale with its corresponding desktop page.Creating a Web site for an antiques dealer, collector, or organization was discussed in the last column. Adding a mobile version of the site can increase ... (Read More)
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(Show)First-Ever Connecticut Show in Massachusetts Goes Smoothly
How would you celebrate your 80th birthday? Henry T. Callan of East Sandwich, Massachusetts, chose to do just what he has been doing for the last 45 years: set up and sell at an antiques show. Callan carries an inventory of Chinese porcelains, Battersea boxes, and needlework samplers. His take ... (Read More)
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(Auction)20th-Century Art and Design
Unsigned and from an edition of 250, Pablo Picasso's Le Repas Frugal, a circa 1904 etching on Van Gelder paper from "La Suite des Saltimbanques," Bloch 1, fetched $158,600. Treadway/Toomey photo.Joe Stanfield of the fine arts division told us that not one domestic bidder showed interest in Street Scene by ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Antique Jewelry and Gemology: Flurry of Sales, Including Cowan's Inaugural Jewelry Auction
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(Show)A Successful New Look for Richmond Show
Piccolo Art, Wilmington, North Carolina, and Wiltshire, England, offered this oil on board by Harold Newton (1934-1994), Light Breeze along the Shore, of a windswept beach with clouds building in the distance, signed but not dated. Newton was one of the central figures among the loose-knit group of painters known ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Estate of the Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Unrepentant Collector
The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes. A complete profile of the man, "God and Harvard" by Robert S. Boynton, appeared in The New Yorker on November 11, 1996. It coincided with publication of Gomes's best-seller The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart (1996). In that profile it's ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sister of Artist Theodoros Stamos Files Suit
by Daniel GrantThe modern-day Laocoön might say: Beware Greeks bearing friendship.Zacharias Georgiou Portalakis, a Greek stockbroker and art collector, was a patron and perhaps friend of painter Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997). After the artist's death Portalakis developed a strong friendship with the artist's sister and estate executor, Georgianna Savas, who lives ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Seven More to Know
by Steve Proffitt>A young friend ready to fly the nest with a new bachelor's degree sent me a joke about a college graduate's first job interview. Near the end of the meeting, the hiring manager asked, "What starting salary are you thinking about?"The young man confidently replied, "Something around $125,000 ... (Read More)
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(Show)20th- and 21st-Century Art and Design in Boston
The booth of Center Street Studio, Milton Village, Massachusetts, on gala night. Nine Black Poppies by Richard Ryan (b. 1950) is partially seen at right, blocked by the couple standing near the daffodils on the table. A woodcut printed on natural Kozo paper, it measures 54" x 40" (image), 60" ... (Read More)
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