The Los Angeles Antiques Show Opening Night Preview Party

To Benefit Charity Partner P.S. ARTS

Preview the Show NOW LIVE!

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Diane Keaton Returns as a Host, Mercedes-Benz New Title Sponsor

WHAT: The Los Angeles Antiques Show will kick off its four-day annual show on April 23, 2008 with an Opening Night Preview Party at Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar to benefit P.S. ARTS. This star-studded gala will have more than 2,500 of the community’s most influential professionals invited, spanning industries including design, architecture, entertainment, philanthropy and media.

WHO: Celebrity guests include Diane Keaton, Anjelica Huston, Marcia Cross (Desperate Housewives), T.R. Knight (Grey’s Anatomy), Lisa Kudrow (Friends; P.S. Arts board member), Joely Fisher (‘Til Death), Steven Weber (Brothers & Sisters), Rebecca De Mornay (John from Cincinnati), among others to be announced. Hosts for the evening include Kelly Wearstler, Julia Sorkin, Kimberly Brooks, Ed Ruscha, Maria Bell, Joe Nye, Lisa Eisner, Julia Sorkin, Waldo Fernandez, Robert Graham, Elizabeth Stewart and Rose Tarlow.

WHEN: Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Media Check-in: 5:00PM

Arrivals for the Preview Party Begin: 5:30pm

Arrivals for the Cocktail Party Begin: 7:00pm

WHERE: Barker Hangar at Santa Monica Air Center

3021 Airport Avenue

Santa Monica

MORE: Presented by the Antique Dealers Association of California (ADAC), the Los Angeles Antiques Show will celebrate its 13^th year by showcasing 60 top antique and fine art dealers from all around the world. Taking place from April 23-27, 2008, the Los Angeles Antiques Show will feature new additions to their roster of world class dealers as it joins hands once again with dynamic Los Angeles-based P.S. ARTS as the exclusive charity partner and welcomes new title sponsor, Mercedes-Benz USA. For more information please visit www.losangelesantiqueshow.com.

WHAT ELSE: P.S. ARTS mission is to restore art education programs to public elementary and middle schools in disadvantaged areas, predominantly serving children who live at or below the federal poverty level. This non-profit organization accomplishes this by providing comprehensive, sequential and grade-level appropriate programs in dance, music, theater and visual arts to every child at its 24 partner schools throughout the year from September to June. P.S. ARTS was founded as an outreach program of the Crossroads Community Foundation.

Premium wines provided courtesy of Maso Canali and Da Vinci.

Cocktails courtesy of Snow Queen Vodka.

For more information please visit www.psartsantiques.com.

CONTACT: Alex Wagner

AWagner@bwr-la.com

BWR Public Relations: 310-550-7776 TEL

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Arts of Pacific Asia Returns to Spring Asia Week

Arts of Pacific Asia New York 2008 at the 69th Regiment Armory, Lexington Ave. at 26th St., is once again a major fixture of Spring Asia Week, with an opening preview Thursday evening March 20th and regular show days, Friday, March 21 through Monday, March 24th.

In 2008, Arts of Pacific Asia has been reduced to 72 exhibitors to accommodate the larger booths required by the increasingly prestigious group of exhibitors.

In its 17th presentation, the show is scheduled to coincide with the Spring auctions of Asian Material at Sotheby’s (March 18, 19 and 20) and Christies (March 19, 20 and 21) and permit major collectors sufficient time to travel to Hong Kong for a major Sotheby’s Asian Auction scheduled for early April.

A number of new major exhibitors have joined Arts of Pacific Asia New York for 2008, including Knapton Rasti Asian Art, London, specialists in jade and Chinese ceramics; snuff bottle specialist Robert Hall, London; Chinese porcelain dealers, S. Marchant & Son, London; Jan van Beers Oriental Art, London, specializing in Chinese objects; Chinese furniture dealer Nicholas Grindley, Great Finbrough, Suffolk, England: Georgia Chrischilles, Brussels, who features jewelry and objects from the sub-Continent; and export porcelain dealer Imperial Oriental Art, New York City.

Arts of Pacific Asia, New York opens Thursday evening, March 20th with a 6:00 to 10:00 pm preview ($100 per person) and will be open to the public Friday and Saturday, March 21 and 22 from 11:00 am to 7:30 pm, Sunday, March 23rd from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm and Monday, March 24th from 11:00 am to 5 PM. General admission is $20 per person for the run of the show including the show catalogue.

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