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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Friday, January 08, 2010

Smithsonian Institution has record year in 2009, with 30 million visits
Washington Post - January 7th, 2010 17:34

A full year of open doors at the National Museum of American History, combined with a robust bump from the crowds in Washington for the inauguration, brought a record number of visits to the Smithsonian in 2009. Last year, according to numbers released this week by the Smithsonian, the institution's 19 facilities received 30 million visits. The American History Museum had been closed for two years for renovation and the addition of a gallery for the Star-Spangled Banner.

Major landscapes by impressionist Clark Voorhees on view in New York
Hartford Courant - January 7th, 2010 17:39

Trained as a chemist at Yale, Clark Greenwood Voorhees was attracted to sketching nature more than science. The New Yorker traveled up to Old Lyme on the Connecticut coast as early as 1893, where he became instrumental in the development of a leading art colony. Now, Hawthorne Fine Art on New York's Upper East Side is presenting the first major show of the artist's work in 30 years. "It is exceedingly rare to uncover a hidden trove of work by a first-rate American Impressionist, ...

Tiffany panel at Tavern on the Green auction.

Baccarat crystal, nostalgia fill Tavern on the Green’s auction
Bloomberg - January 7th, 2010 17:24

This week, the landmark restaurant in Manhattan’s Central Park opened its doors for a public preview of thousands of items, from glassware to weathervanes, to be auctioned off January 13-15. The 75-year-old restaurant filed for bankruptcy protection in September 2009, after the losing its lease on the city-owned site to a higher bidder. Guernsey's auctioneers will sell about 1,000 Tavern-owned items including 50 chandeliers made of Tiffany and Baccarat crystal...

Fabled Skull and Bones ballot box up for auction
Luxist - January 7th, 2010 17:22

An 1872 skull ballot box from Yale University's mysterious Skull and Bones society will be sold as part of Christie's New York's Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver & Chinese Export sale on January 22. Skull and Bones was founded in 1832 and has been the subject of many works of history and fiction. The lot includes a black book with names and photographs of earlier members and is estimated at $10,000 to $20,000.

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