July 2009
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Touching the Taboo – Chinese Cultural Revolution Banners at Kaminski Auction
The banners, regardless of their authenticity, lead me to think of the collectibility of Chinese Cultural…
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Style is Forever, Trends in Pittsburgh Architecture and Decoration
Chicago Hotelier Bertha Palmer is said to have coined the phrase “fashion is fleeting, but style…
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A Pastel Painting at Doyle
Learned from this single painting, I feel the charm of still-lifes. It is the fact that…
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Losing the Monuments to Architects and Builders
The photographer Ernst Haas criticized the act of copying as an act of losing the self.…
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Faces of a New Nation
During its New American Wing construction period, Met has generously loaned its vast collections of American…
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Announcement of Monthly Magazines
Urban Art and Antiques now has a magazine based on the daily posts within a month.…
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Landscape by A. F. King on eBay
A reader notified me today that there is a landscape painting by A. F. King on…
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Collecting Classical CDs
So how long will the market begin to see the collectible values of CDs? If the…
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens at Met
Cover: The Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, Boston Common, From Wiki Commons By Rhododendrites – Own work,…