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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Friday, September 04, 2009
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 | Upscale & Upbeat: Baltimore Antiques Show expects high turn-out, strong sales
Maryland Daily Record - September 3rd, 2009 17:50
Expectations are high for this weekend's 29th annual Baltimore Summer Antiques Show, the largest indoor antiques shows in the world, featuring 550 top-tier dealers. "The industry overall has been soft but nobody’s giving anything away — prices haven’t fallen,” said Kris Charamonde of the Palm Beach Show Group. A few highlights include a Pierre-Auguste Renoir from M.S. Rau Antiques in New Orleans priced at $425,000. The same dealer is asking $2.4 million for a ...Read more | |
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 | Paris Pleasures; Touring the city's antiques markets
Telegraph - September 3rd, 2009 18:40
Clignancourt market – or, as it is officially known, Marché aux Puces St-Ouen de Clignancourt, on the northern edge of Paris, in the 18th arrondissement – is the biggest flea market in the world: a seven-hectare junk city. As the American rightly said, taking in this warren of other people's cast-offs – there are 15 to 20 separate markets here, each with a speciality, with around 1,500 shops and stalls in all – could take years. Or it could ...Read more | |
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 | Recession Reaction: Art insurers say fraudulent claims on the rise
The Art Newspaper - September 3rd, 2009 17:45
The insurance industry is on red alert. The number of fraudulent claims is rising rapidly and experts predict they will continue to increase until the economic situation improves. According to the Association of British Insurers (ABI), in 2008 there was a 17% rise in fraudulent claims compared with the previous year. This amounted to 2,000 dishonest claims made in Britain every week. The total value of these in 2008 was £730m—30% up on 2007.Read more | |
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 | Rants against Landmarks: FOX's Glenn Beck turns into an art critic
UnBeige Mediabistro - September 3rd, 2009 15:00
Everyone's favorite screamer Glenn Beck last night decided to expose the fascist/communist art at Rockefeller Plaza in New York. He explained that NBC, the Rockefeller family, and everyone else who happens to pass by the building is a raving communist and/or fascist (probably both). View the footage...
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