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Robert L. Foster, Newcastle, Maineby Mark SiskoCome blizzard, sunshine, or hurricane (unlikely on January 1, we admit), Robert Foster's traditional New Year's Day auction in Newcastle, Maine, packs the bidders in by the hundreds. This year's kickoff sale was no exception. The usual standing-room-only crowd chased about 600 lots, led ... (Read More)
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(Feature)
Sotheby's, New York City
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Dale and George Fenimore Johnson lived in a grand country house called Shell Point in Maryland and filled it with furniture bought from Israel Sack and John Walton in the 1950's and '60's and with Chinese export porcelain bought at major shows from dealer Elinor ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Big Gift to CarnegieDr. Ellen Lehman has made a $3 million gift to the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh's Building the Future campaign, through the Alan G. and Jane A. Lehman Foundation, to be used to create two endowments of $1.5 million each.One endowment will establish the Alan G. and Jane ... (Read More)
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(Feature)
Andrea Canady has been promoted to fair director of the newly formed Art & Antiques Fairs, North America management division of dmg world media.Canady is responsible for the Original Miami Beach Antiques Show (OMBAS) and the New York, Las Vegas, and Miami Beach Antique Jewelry & Watch shows. OMBAS is ... (Read More)
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