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Pier 57 will include space for an auction house, galleries, and more arts venues.

New York's Pier 57 may host Auction House, Galleries
Artinfo - August 3rd, 2009 10:19

NEW YORK - The newly chosen developer's plan includes a Contemporary Culture Center with a mix of auction, exhibition, gallery, and entertainment space. Auctioneer Phillips de Pury is part of the picture...

"The Vivid Pink" shows no traces of a secondary color, displays even color depth and distribution, as well as balanced saturation and tone, qualifying the stone for a Fancy Vivid color grading from the Gemological Institute of America. Only one in 100,000 diamonds possess a color deep enough to qualify as fancy.

"Vivid pink" diamond could rock market
Reuters - August 3rd, 2009 10:22

HONG KONG - A rare, 5-carat pink diamond will be sold in Hong Kong this December by Christie's, which expects the stone to hover near world record prices, thanks in part to the buying prowess of top Asian jewelry collectors.

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	The Art-Tickle ArtfixDaily Staff Marvel in Glass: A Victorian Shopping Mall still Delights Once dubbed the "Crystal Palace," The Arcade in Cleveland, Ohio, was an architectural tour-de-force when the massive skylit structure first opened in 1890. Modeled after the Galleria Vittorio Emanuell II in Milan, Italy, this shopping mall is visually breathtaking in any century. John ... Read more

Book reveals Jasper Johns, the Jokester
UnBeige Mediabistro - August 3rd, 2009 18:16

Artist Jasper Johns tends to confront cameras with an expression of steely bemusement that stops just short of a glower. But don't mistake Johns's intensity for humorlessness, notes James Rosenquist in his memoir, Painting Below Zero, due out in October from Knopf...

Scrimshaw artists today have a very limited supply of material to work with.

Nantucket scrimshaw art losing its bite
Cape Cod Times 1 - August 2nd, 2009 11:00

NANTUCKET — Michael Vienneau peers through a bright, white magnifying glass to the polished whale tooth in his hand. He is one of the few remaining scrimshaw artists left on the island of Nantucket...

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	Paintings, Collages, and Watercolors by Charles DuBack at the Portland Museum of Art Release Date: 03 August 2009 Charles DuBack (born 1926) first came to Maine from New York City in the mid-1950s. Charles DuBack: Coming to Maine will feature 20 paintings and collages focusing on his rarely shown, but pivotal, work from the late 1950s. The exhibition is complemented by a small selection of his more recent ... Read more

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