[ October 13, 2007; 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] The National Museum of Natural History presents “MexicoFest 2007,” a family festival featuring Mexican cultural and hands-on activities for all age groups and interests, as well as displays about museum projects that relate to Mexico or to the museum’s Mexican collections.
[ October 27, 2007; October 28, 2007; ] Contacts:Miriam Tucker
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Marilyn White
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Through October 28, 2007
Lambertville, NJ – Peter Voulkos, Betty Woodman, Axel Salto and Otto Natzler are just a few of the ceramic artists whose work is offered in Sollo Rago’s much anticipated October Modern Auction Weekend. The auction takes place on October 27 and 28th, with exhibition […]
An exhibition of rare and spectacular masks from China will go on show for the first and only time in Australia at the Immigration Museum, from 8 October 2007.The exhibition Masks of China: Ritual and Legend will showcase around 100 stunning handmade masks. Drawn from the collections of the China Museum of the Cultural Palace […]
The glamour and the golden years of the Miss Australia competition are explored in a new exhibition opening at Melbourne Museum on 11 October 2007.
Did you know that the first competition to find Australia’s most beautiful woman was won by Victoria’s own Alice Buckridge in 1908? Or that, in 1993, debate over the inclusion of […]
World first exhibition at Melbourne Museum
An exhibition unlike any other in the world, Melbourne Museum’s The Mind: Enter the Labyrinth explores the varying capacities of the most complex phenomenon in the known universe - the human mind.
Opening as a permanent exhibition on 21 September 2007, The Mind: Enter the Labyrinth sets an international benchmark […]
Sally Schwartz, co-founder of the Chicago Antique Market, knew the Pauline Palmer painting she inherited from her grandparents had value, but she had no idea just how valuable it was. When the painting sold this summer for $120,000, nobody was more surprised and pleased than she. Previous auction records, according to AskArt.com, show a high […]
[ October 21, 2007; 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] Sunday, October 21st will mark the 22nd year for the California Country Antique American Country & Folk Art Show. This show, rated by Country Home Magazine as the #7 Great Outdoor Show in America, is a twice-yearly event that has the atmosphere of old friends getting together to spend the day enjoying their common interests […]
George L. Vaught, President Elect-Texas Auctioneers Association
Hang on, here is a story really worth telling. Quite literally, Keith Landers (dba, Johnny Dee) and I just happened to run across each other at our neighborhood Austin farmers market one Saturday morning last April. I previously hired Keith’s band “Johnny Dee & the Rocket 88s” last […]
The weekend of June 16th 2007 was busy for Texas licensed auctioneers from across our great state who gathered for the 50th Annual Texas Auctioneers Association Convention in Corpus Christi, Texas. In addition to State Championship Bid Calling and Ringman contests, the Texas Auctioneers Association made its Guinness World Record™ bid for the most auctioneers bid calling simultaneously which was acknowledged as a new world record by Guinness this month.
That makes your heart soar when you think of antiques? Jewels? Books and prints? Furniture? Carpets? Paintings? There’s no doubt that antiques possess qualities that makes modern merchandise pale in comparison - qualities like exquisite craftsmanship, character, attention to detail, and timelessness. Similarly, American items that are considered to be antiques - the older items you might find at estate sales and auctions - are youngsters when compared with European antiques.
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