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Online purchasing of art and antiques on the rise
The live online bidding site The-saleroom.com has recorded a 120 per cent year-on-year increase in bidder numbers in 2009, revealing growing buyer confidence in purchasing art and antiques online. In a year when recession and credit issues dominated the headlines, the-saleroom.com bucked the trend with revenues generated by the site increasing by 55 per cent year-on-year. The value of lots sold on the site has also grown by 87 per cent with t... [more]
Arts and antiques have remained pretty resilient throughout the recession
According to the latest survey from RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), prices in the arts and antiques market continue to rise with silver and jewellery leading the way, whilst contemporary art came back into favour following a year of price falls. The all lot price balance continued to edge up in the final quarter of 2009, with 17 percent more surveyors reporting rising rather than falling prices, up from 14 percent in the previ... [more]
Insider guide to the antiques trade
How To Deal in Antiques, by TV and radio antiques expert Fiona Shoop, is now in its fourth edition. In this simple, step-by-step guide, Fiona explains how to save money when buying antiques and how to make a profit when you sell. She introduces different types of dealing, from fairs to the Internet. If you love antiques and enjoy buying and selling them as a profitable career or hobby, you’ll need to know exactly what you’re doing to maximise ... [more]
Looking back: 70 years of Millburn-Short Hills Art Center (The Record and Herald News)
Millburn-Short Hills Art Center (MSHAC) formed in September of 1940.
Looking back: 70 years of Millburn-Short Hills Art Center (The Record and Herald News)
When Millburn-Short Hills Art Center (MSHAC) formed in September of 1940, it primarily served dilettantes within the immediate area. Seventy years later membership runs throughout the state, some come from New York and some from as far as Florida.
Art museum gets money to install solar panels (The State)
The Columbia Museum of Art said Thursday it received $100,906 from the S.C. Energy Office to install energy-saving solar panels.
Ambuja Realty to invest Rs 1000 cr over 4 yrs in malls, commercial space (Express India)
Ambuja Realty is going to invest Rs 305 crore to build three business parks over a total of 7.7 lakh sqft in the state.
Art and culture proving their worth (Boston Globe)
Each year, 30,000 people visit the Danforth Museum of Art. Hundreds of youths participate in its free school programs, thousands of all ages enroll in art classes, and still more view exhibitions.
Rick Carnes: Free Press doesn't mean Free Lunch (The Huffington Post)
Art, thou doth protest too much methinks. If anyone is being disingenuous it's the folks you defend at Free Press, who are for nothing of...
Invest in India, former Vodaphone CEO to students (rediff.com)
Arun Sarin, the newly minted honorary knight of the British Empire who delivered the ending keynote, urged the Berkeley students to invest in Asia and work there to learn valuable entrepreneurial lessons.
FCC's National Broadband Plan: What's in It? (PC World via Yahoo! News)
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission plans to release a national broadband plan next week that will lay out an ambitious set of goals for broadband deployment and adoption.
Continued Security Efforts At City Hall (Webster-Kirkwood Times)
The City of Kirkwood will invest an additional $122,500 in its $1 million-plus effort to expunge the memory the night of Feb. 7, 2008, when a gunman wreaked havoc in city hall, fatally shooting four city officials and two policemen.
Yellen is spellin' inflation ahead (New York Post)
The new Obama Fed is going to be very dov ish when it comes to fighting future inflation and defending the value of the dollar. The president has nominated Janet Yellen to be vice chair of the Federal Reserve. Yellen is a distinguished economist -- who unfortunately subscribes to the...
