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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Artprice Enters Online Auction Arena
ArtfixDaily Staff - January 3rd, 2012 12:46

French-owned Artprice, the art information and price database website, will launch its online auctions in a competitive market space this month. Online auction service will commence on January 18 with a 100% guarantee of security and payment for parties in all transactions as well as low commissions, Artprice says.

Mary Cassatt at Arles, 1912 / unidentified photographer. Frederick A. Sweet research material on Mary Cassatt and James A. McNeill Whistler, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Archives of American Art announces the opening of Carnegie Institute exhibition records for research
Release Date: 02 January 2012
The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art announced the completion of a major project funded in 2007 by the Brown Foundation Inc. to fully arrange, preserve and describe the Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art Exhibition Records (264 linear feet). One of the Archives’ most significant ...

Screenshot of the Imperial War Museum's Great British Posters from the Second World War, vol. 1, app.

World War II Posters Get an App
Unbeige blog on mediabistro - January 3rd, 2012 08:43

Britain's Imperial War Museum has launched a free new app featuring striking World War II posters. From a collection of 20,000, a select 30 posters can be explored in depth on the iPhone or iPad. Marked by bold designs, humor, memorable slogans and patriotism, these vintage graphic designs include such classics as 'Keep Calm and Carry On'...

From Roderick Jellico, London, UK, Set of Spode tulip cups and stand c.1820 .

2012 New York Ceramics Fair Opens January 17th, Bohemian National Hall at 321 East 73rd St.
Release Date: 03 January 2012
The New York Ceramics Fair celebrates its 13th year launching New York City’s Winter Antiques Week with the season’s first opening preview Tuesday, January 17th. For the second year, New York Ceramics Fair visitors can enjoy its elegant new venue, the Grand Ballroom of the Bohemian National Hall, ...

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	The Drawings of Leon Dabo Release Date: 29 December 2011 Sullivan Goss – An American Gallery is pleased to present the inaugural exhibition from the Estate of Leon Dabo (1865-1960)—The Drawings of Leon Dabo. Leon Dabo’s progressive aesthetic sensibilities in the nineteenth century ushered in new forms of visual expression for the twentieth. The artist ... Read more

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