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December 2010 E-Newsletter In this issue: •  Home for the Holidays •  Hyperlinks •  A Season of Events •  Holiday Shopping •  The Taste of the Season •  Seeing Things •  Membership Bonus Your Favorites Are Back! That's right—the most-loved works in the museum's collection come "Home for the Holidays" this season. Marc Chagall's America Windows, freshly cleaned and conserved, return in their full splendor to a brand new gallery. A dazzling array of 50 pieces of arms and armor, including a knight on horseback, brings the majesty of a bygone era to life. And the Lilliputian halls of select Thorne Miniature Rooms are decked with festive finery. Don't miss these old favorites and new traditions! ShareThis When Architecture Met Design Archisign? Designature? What does the interbreeding of architecture and design produce? Oh, just enhanced quality of life and insightful solutions to urgent issues. Over 30 of these cross-disciplinary projects come together in Hyperlinks: Architecture and Design. Featuring work from an international group of artists, Hyperlinks includes a range of projects—from new solutions to traditional spatial practices to responses to current environmental concerns and social issues. See what the future of architecture and design has in store when Hyperlinks opens December 11 and take home a bit of innovation with the beautiful 160-page catalogue. ShareThis A Season of Events This Friday's 19th Annual Wreathing of the Lions is just the start of it; the festivities continue throughout the season. Families are invited to belt out your favorite holiday tunes at a Caroling Tea, create an edible dream house at a Build Your Own Gingerbread House event, test your sleuthing skills at the 29th Annual Treasure Hunt and Tea Party on December 5, or enjoy a variety of drop-in art activities at Holly Days, December 27–30. All are welcome to spend time with longtime favorites like Grant Wood's American Gothic or Edward Hopper's Nighthawks with noontime Masterpiece of the Day gallery talks or steal a kiss under our giant ball of mistletoe on the Grand Staircase. Join us for a month of holiday fun! ShareThis Gifts for All Still looking for that perfect gift? We've got you covered. With three locations in the museum and an online store, the Museum Shop has the perfect present for everyone on your list. Whether it's ornaments and décor, jewelry and apparel, or books and games, there's something to please every art lover. For the supreme stocking stuffer, Adopt a Dot returns with colors from Seurat's beloved masterpiece as well as from other iconic works in the holiday line-up. Or give the gift that keeps on giving—a gift membership. How else can you put 5,000 years of creativity under the tree? And in case you need a few artworks to get you in a magnanimous mood, we have that too; simply download our "Gifts and Giving" self-guide. ShareThis Holiday Treats After feasting your eyes, satisfy your stomach. In addition to fine dining at Terzo Piano, casual family fare at the Garden Café, and quick pick-me-ups at Caffè Moderno, we're offering special culinary treats this season. Hand-decorated cookies, Bûche de Noël, and peppermint brownies are sure to tempt at the Garden Café all December, while special holiday cocktails will warm your insides on Thursday and Friday evenings at the Garden Café Tapas Lounge through January 3. Or if you're looking to learn how to cook up your own delicious dishes, register for Terzo Piano cooking classes. Sign up for five classes in 2011 by January 15, and you'll receive an invitation to a post-class party with award-winning chef Tony Mantuano. Now that's a treat! ShareThis Do You See What I See? This month, Seeing Things joins in the holiday hubbub with a host of events inspired by Chagall's America Windows as well as the shining return of arms and armor. For any Scrooges out there, there are several holiday-free events as well. Highlights include: For Marc Chagall Maxwell Street Klezmer Band New Light: A Celebration of Stained Glass A symposium covering 800 years of stained-glass art Discovering Manchay Culture: Ancient Temples of Peru Richard Burger, Yale University Arms and Armor: Harding's Castle and Collection Stuart Pyhrr, Metropolitan Museum of Art Illusive Things: "True to the Senses" Judith Barter, Art Institute curator ShareThis When Less Is More Use the museum as your home base this winter during your holiday shopping sprees! Member Plus members and above save $5 on parking in any of the downtown Millennium Garages. Stop by any membership desk in the museum for your discounted parking ticket. Become a member today to enjoy this benefit along with exclusive access to museum exhibitions and events! ShareThis Mrs. James Ward Thorne. English Drawing Room of the Victorian Period, 1840–70, c. 1937. Gift of Mrs. James Ward Thorne. Jacob Halder. Portions of an Armor for Field and Tilt, c. 1580/90. George F. Harding Collection. Studio Makkink & Bey. Slow Car, 2007. Courtesy Studio Makkink & Bey. Photo by Chris Lake. "Black-and-White" Field Armor, c. 1560. Northern Germany. George F. Harding Collection. Burk Uzzle. Untitled, n.d. Gift of Burk Uzzle. © Burk Uzzle/Courtesy Laurence Miller Gallery, New York.

Holiday Hours The museum is closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's days and will close at 5:00 p.m. on the Fridays of December 24 and 31. Museum Shop Trunk Show Join us at the main Museum Shop on Saturday, December 4, 12:00–4:00 p.m. for our handmade jewelry, textiles, and home furnishing trunk show event. Chagall-Inspired Cocktails To celebrate the reinstallation of Mark Chagall's America Windows, the Garden Café Tapas Lounge will be offering a Stained Glass Martini, America Margarita, and the Blue Russian on Thursday and Friday evenings. 'Tis the Season for Saving Explore our unique holiday décor online and receive free standard shipping on all online orders of $75 or more. Simply enter code EN80 at checkout. Offer valid 11/24–12/24 and does not include any shipping surcharges. Multicolor Glass Tree $188 • Arms and Armor Events • Chagall Events • Family Events • Home for the Holidays • Lectures • Performances • Seeing Things • Teen Programs • ArtBabble • ARTicle • Curious Corner • Facebook • Flickr • Foursquare • Google Calendar • Self-Guide: Gifts and Giving • Twitter • YouTube Take the CTA to the Art Institute. www.transitchicago.com

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1. Injecting GTK colors into Google Chrome/Chromium
(Elliot Glaysher (Chromium))

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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:27:40 -0800
From: "Elliot Glaysher (Chromium)" <erg@chromium.org>
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Cc: Chromium-dev <chromium-dev@chromium.org>, Evan Martin
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Subject: Injecting GTK colors into Google Chrome/Chromium
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Hi,

My name is Elliot and I work on the GTK+ version of the Google Chrome
interface. The first version of the GTK+ integration code (around the
Hardy Heron days) used several heuristics to determine the custom
frame color, and these heuristics don't often do a good job anymore
(i.e. Ambiance on Maverick using bright orange). Our previous plan was
to wait for client side decoration system to be enabled by default,
and then use that to draw the chrome window. From the outside, it
looks less and less likely that CSD will happen, so we've very
recently added explicit control of many of chrome's colors from gtk
themes through style properties.

These style properties are documented at
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxGtkThemeIntegration .
Chrome will still fallback on its previous heuristics if these style
properties aren't set. I'd love if people pointed out missing things
or problems with that interface.

These properties should work on the current dev channel of chrome. I
believe 9.0.587.0 was the first version with the new system.

I've gone and created some sample usage of these style properties. All
these samples were created by taking screenshots of a normal window
and getting colors with the eyedrop tool. The appropriate shade(0.XX,
@name) statements would look better but I don't understand metacity's
executable XML. (These may not be optimal, but are examples to show
off what's possible.)

Clearlooks:
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style "chrome-hacks"
{
# All colors picked with the eyedropper from screenshots of Clearlooks.
ChromeGtkFrame::frame-color = "#79a0d1"
ChromeGtkFrame::inactive-frame-color = "#d4d2d0"

ChromeGtkFrame::frame-gradient-size = 12
ChromeGtkFrame::frame-gradient-color = "#97b9e2"
ChromeGtkFrmae::inactive-frame-gradient-color = "#ebeae9"

# The scrollbar selections are good enough.
}
class "ChromeGtkFrame" style "chrome-hacks"

Dust:
--------
style "chrome-hacks"
{
ChromeGtkFrame::frame-color = "#32302e"
ChromeGtkFrame::inactive-frame-color = "#2f2e2c"

ChromeGtkFrame::frame-gradient-size = 8
ChromeGtkFrame::frame-gradient-color = "#524a45"
ChromeGtkFrame::inactive-frame-gradient-color = "#2f2e2c"

ChromeGtkFrame::scrollbar-slider-normal = "#938a7e"
ChromeGtkFrame::scrollbar-trough-color = "#e2ded8"
}
class "ChromeGtkFrame" style "chrome-hacks"

Ambiance:
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style "chrome-hacks"
{
ChromeGtkFrame::frame-color = @fg_color
ChromeGtkFrame::inactive-frame-color = @fg_color

ChromeGtkFrame::frame-gradient-size = 16
ChromeGtkFrame::frame-gradient-color = "#5c5b56"

ChromeGtkFrame::scrollbar-trough-color = @bg_color
ChromeGtkFrame::scrollbar-slider-prelight-color = "#F8F6F2"
ChromeGtkFrame::scrollbar-slider-normal-color = "#E7E0D3"
}
class "ChromeGtkFrame" style "chrome-hacks"

-- Elliot Glaysher <erg@chromium.org>

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After Much Controversy, Authenticity of Teotihuacan's "The Malinaltepec Mask" Verified The Malinaltepec Mask. Photo: DMC INAH/H. Montano. MEXICO CITY.- After a decade of controversy regarding the authenticity of the Malinaltepec Mask, an investigation conducted by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has verified it is original. “The Malinaltepec Mask”, a new publication coordinated by Sofia Martinez del Campo, a specialist in funerary masks, integrates 7 studies performed recently by 20 researchers on the Prehispanic piece, confirming it is authentic. The book deals with substantial and assorted analyses that the piece, made out of 762 tesserae with an approximate age of 1,800 years, underwent. Among the studies are morphometric characterization, mineralogy, petrography, lapidary characteristics, technological analysis and adhesives used to paste decorations. “Since its discovery in 1921, the mask caused controversy among archaeologists: specialist Porfirio Aguirre thought he had just found one of the great treasures of Me ... More The Best Photos of the Day DARMSTADT.- A 32-million-years-old skeleton of a sea cow in Darmstadt, Germany. The skeleton was a last-minute discovery near Wiesloch as a Frauenweiler clay pit was just about to be closed, after a salvage excavation project financed by the National Geographic Society. EPA/HESSIANSTATEMUSEUM. Versace's Return Painting Stolen from a London Home in 1979 to Original Owners Johann Zoffany, Portrait of Major George Maule, acting chief engineer of Madras (1751-1793). Oil on canvas. 24 ¼ x 18 ¾ in, 61.5 x 47.5 cm. Photo: Courtesy Art Loss Register. LONDON (REUTERS).- A painting stolen from a London home in 1979 and which ended up in the collection of late Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace has been returned to its original owners, Britain's Art Loss Register said on Monday. The work by 18th century German artist Johann Zoffany had been billed as the star lot in a Sotheby's auction of the contents of Versace's Lake Como villa last year, but it was withdrawn at the last moment. A direct descendent of the subject of "Portrait of Major George Maule" contacted the Art Loss Register, which tracks lost and stolen art and antiquities, and the ALR in turn contacted Sotheby's. "What could have been a protracted legal battle between two very well financed European families and their copious sets of lawyers has been amicably settled by the Art Loss Register's art ... More   A Rare and Exceptional Example of the First Apple Computer Sells for $212,267 at Christie's Christie's sold the first Apple computer, and the first personal computer with a fully assembled motherboard. AP Photo/Christie's. LONDON.- A rare and exceptional example of the first Apple computer – the Apple 1 – sold today at Christie’s for £133,250 / $212,267 / €156,169. The first personal computer with a fully assembled motherboard, the Apple 1 heralded the home computer revolution. Only about 200 examples are believed to have been produced, and the present example was sold at auction by a private collector complete with original box, instruction manuals and a signed letter from Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple. The other prominent co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, who designed and constructed the Apple 1, attended the auction. It was acquired by Marco Boglione, a private Italian collector. A further highlight of the sale was an ‘Enigma’ machine, the cipher machine widely used by the German army in World War II, which sold for £67,250 / $107,129 / €78,817. It was underbid by an internet ... More   Rare First Edition of the Star Spangled Banner to Be Sold at Christie's in New York An 1814 first edition copy of the lyrics and music of the "Star Spangled Banner," by Francis Scott Key. AP Photo/Christie's Images Ltd. NEW YORK, NY.- On Dec 3, Christie's will offer a very rare first edition of the lyrics and music of the Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key (estimate: $200,000-300,000) as part of its autumn Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana sale. It is the only known copy in private hands- 1 of 11 known copies. The other copies are all in institutions or university libraries. Francis Scott Key's famous patriotic verses were inspired by a shipboard vigil on the night of September 13-14, 1814, when a British naval flotilla bombarded Fort McHenry for hours, prefatory to a planned full-scale assault. Key, a young lawyer, and a colleague had gone on board a British ship under a flag of truce to secure the release of an American physician, Dr. William Beanes, held as a prisoner. To ensure that no military information on the impending attack ... More Bonhams Make World Record Prices for Glass and Porcelain Chinese Snuff Bottles A 'famille-rose' enamelled gold-ground glass 'lotus' snuff bottle, which sold for HK$9,056,000. Photo: Bonhams. HONG KONG.- Bonhams Hong Kong today (23 November 2010) celebrated its second “Golden Gavel Auction”, when Part II of the world’s finest collection of important Chinese snuff bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, sold 100% and achieved world record prices. Against presale estimates of HK$24,000,000, the sale total was HK$54,832,000 (£4, 437,930) with every one of the 155 rare bottles successfully sold. A good number of the lots sold for twice to four times its estimate. A new world record for a porcelain snuff bottle was reached when Lot 121 sold for a staggering HK$8,384,000 (£678,815), four times its pre-sale estimate of HK$2,000,000. Commissioned by the Qianlong emperor and enamelled in the palace workshops of the Imperial Palace between 1736 and 1760, this extraordinary snuff bottle, decorated with ‘double-gourds’, symbolic of long life, is identical to another rare example still preserved ... More   John Lennon's I'm Only Sleeping Lyrics to Be Sold at Bonhams Memorabilia Auction John Lennon lyrics I'm Only Sleeping. LONDON.- Bonhams Entertainment Memorabilia auction on 15th December 2010 is a must for any fans of the music legend John Lennon. Handwritten lyrics for the Beatles’ hit I’m Only Sleeping, an acoustic guitar used during the Walls and Bridges album recording session and a written note of personal expenses from May 1968 are just a few of the important items up for grabs thirty years after the musician’s tragic death. The most expensive item for sale is a set of handwritten lyrics for I’m Only Sleeping which is estimated to fetch £250,000-350,000. The song can be seen as a reflection of drug-induced reverie, but it is also a personal statement on John’s love of sleeping. His first wife Cynthia stated that he was a heavy sleeper who loved being in bed, and in Maureen Cleave’s famous “...more popular than Jesus” interview with John she noted that “he can sleep almost indefinitely, is prob ... More   One Hundred Years after Mark Twain's Death, Centennial Sparks Wave of Nostalgia The cover of the first volume of the autobiography of US author and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, best known by his pen name Mark Twain. EPA/UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS. By: Bruce Olson HANNIBAL (REUTERS).- One hundred years after reports of his death were correct, not exaggerated, Mark Twain is a hot commodity again with an autobiography on the best-seller list and a new CD celebrating his legacy. The best seller is the first of the three-volume "Autobiography of Mark Twain," the iconoclastic author's private thoughts dictated during his life with the stipulation they not be published until he was dead for 100 years. That anniversary is 2010 and the 500,000-word book is flying off shelves. The CD, "Mark Twain: Words & Music," is narrated by Garrison Keillor with Twain's words spoken by Clint Eastwood. It also features songs by Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill, Brad Paisley, Ricky Skaggs and others ... More Original Drawings by Some of the Greatest Illustrators of Our Time to Be Offered at Sotheby's Quentin Blake, The BFG, est: £3,000-5,000. Photo: Sotheby's. LONDON.-The BFG, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Charlie and Lola, Wallace and Gromit, The Gruffalo and St Trinian’s – stories that have lit up the lives of generations of children, and not purely thanks to the words that tell them. Very often, the enduring imprint they leave, on the minds of children and adults alike, is in no short measure down to the magical illustrations that help give them life. Works by many of these famous illustrators will come to sale -– for the most pertinent of causes - at Sotheby’s on Thursday, 16th December 2010. Some 28 original drawings will be offered, drawn with the characteristic golden touch of the likes of Quentin Blake, Raymond Briggs, Peter Brooks, Eric Carle, Nick Park, Paula Rego, Gerald Scarfe and many others. Estimates range from £1,000* (for Beryl Cook’s Nude on a Leopardskin) to £3,000 (for Quentin Blake’s The BFG, illus ... More   3rd Eye: New York University Artist Gets Camera Implanted in Head as Part of Project Bilal holds the prototype of a digital camera that he had implanted in the back of his head. By: Ula Ilnytzky, Associated Press NEW YORk (AP).- A New York University arts professor might not have eyes on the back of his head, but he's coming pretty close. Wafaa Bilal, a visual artist widely recognized for his interactive and performance pieces, had a small digital camera implanted in the back of his head — all in the name of art. Bilal said Tuesday that he underwent the procedure for an art project that was commissioned by a new museum in Doha, Qatar, in the Arab Gulf. Titled "The 3rd I," it is one of 23 contemporary works commissioned for the opening of the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art on Dec. 30. The exhibition is entitled "Told/Untold/Retold." "I am going about my daily life as I did before the procedure," the Iraqi-born artist said in a statement. Bilal, who is teaching ... More   Bridget Riley: Paintings and Related Work Opens at the National Gallery in London Bridget Riley, Saraband, 1985. Oil on linen, 166.5 x 136.5 cm. Private collection © Bridget Riley, 2010. All rights reserved. Courtesy Karsten Schubert, London. LONDON.- Bridget Riley (b. 1931) is one of the most significant and original painters of our time. This Sunley Room exhibition focuses upon her most recent paintings and will enable visitors to investigate how Riley’s work relates to the National Gallery Collection. Two of Riley’s works will be made directly onto the walls of the exhibition space. 'Composition with Circles 7' is a wall-drawing that Riley and her studio will create especially for the longest wall of the Sunley Room. A version of her wall-painting, 'Arcadia', will also be on view, which was last seen at Riley’s major retrospective exhibition of 2008 at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. At the National Gallery, however, the painting will be recreated on a larger scale to relate better with the space. While committed to abstraction, Riley has always had ... More Exhibition on Treatments and Techniques Used to Conserve Rare Works on Paper at the Getty Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, Portrait of Louis de Silvestre, about 1753. Black and white chalk, blue and rose pastel on faded blue paper. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, CA.- Works on paper are inherently more fragile—in terms of sensitivity to light and handling—than mediums such as canvas, panel, bronze, or clay, and often show the passage of time more acutely than their counterparts. Frequent handling by artists in their workshops and later by collectors, combined with poor storage and display conditions, often leads to distracting damage. As a result of their fragility, drawings in the Getty Museum’s collection spend much of their life inside solander boxes in climate-controlled storage areas, where they’re protected from light, mold, insects, and other threats to their preservation; and, the fascinating “secrets”—of how they were made and displayed, damages they sustained, and treatments they were given—often go untold. The Secret Life ... More   Israeli Scientists Drilling in Dead Sea to Unearth Treasures may Answer Scientific Questions A drilling rig is seen as workers dig for layers of sediment in the bottom of the Dead Sea. AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner. By: Tia Goldenberg, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP).- Scientists in Israel are drilling into the murky depths of the Dead Sea in hopes of unearthing scientific treasures hidden in 500,000 years worth of mud and sediment. The unique setting of the Dead Sea — the lowest place on earth at 1,385 feet (422 meters) below sea level — should present researchers with distinctly stratified sedimentation that may answer scientific questions in fields ranging from geology to archaeology and could lead to new insight into climate change. Researchers say the core that will be pulled out from 1,640 feet (500 meters) below the seabed could open the door to years of research as every stratum could inspire a new hypothesis. "It's like reading a book," said Ulrich Harms, a German scientist who heads the International Continental Drilling ... More   Ansel Adams and Cartier-Bresson Among Famous Names in New York Photography Auction Phillipe Halsman, Albert Einstein, 1947. NEW YORK, NY.- Fresh-to-market finds from the holdings of an important Fortune 500 company - including photographs from such luminous names as Harold Edgerton, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Sandy Skoglund, Eliot Porter, Ernst Haas, Annie Leibovitz, O. Winston Link and William Wegman - provide the anchor to Heritage Auction's Signature(r) Vintage & Contemporary Photography Auction, Friday, Dec. 3 at 3 p.m., at the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion (Ukrainian Institute), 2 East 79th Street (at 5th Avenue). "This is as eclectic and as a fine a mix of great photographs, from some of the biggest names in the history of the genre, as we have yet had the pleasure of presenting," said Ed Jaster, Senior Vice President of Heritage Auctions. "Besides the offerings from the Fortune 500 Company, which are indeed extraordinary, this grouping goes very deep and should appeal to a broad array of collectors." America's greatest naturalist photograp ... More More News Bonhams Appoint Deborah Allan Departmental Director of Impressionist & Modern Art LONDON.- The Bonhams announced the appointment of Deborah Allan as Director of Impressionist and Modern Art. For the past three years, 2007-2010, she has been, Head of Department and Auctioneer, and recently Director of the Impressionist & Modern Art, at Christie’s, South Kensington. Deborah began her auction house career in 1996 with two internships at Bonhams and Phillips, followed by an internship at Christie’s 19th Century, Impressionist & Modern, Contemporary Art and time with the Chairman’s office in King Street in 1997. Starting as a junior Specialist in 19th Century and Impressionist Art at Christie’s South Kensington she then moved as a Specialist in Impressionist & Modern Art and finally to Head the Department at Christie’s South Kensington. During her career she has taken numerous charity auctions since becoming an auctioneer in 2005. One of the charities that she has worked with is the De ... More Westminster Abbey, United Kingdom Royalty's Church of Choice for 1,000 Years LONDON (AP).- Westminster Abbey has been at the religious heart of the English — and later British — monarchy for some 1,000 years, regularly hosting coronations and funerals. Unusually, the church is a "royal peculiar," which means it belongs directly to the sovereign. Weddings at the abbey have been more irregular, although Prince William's grandmother Queen Elizabeth II and his great grandmother were both married there. Here is a brief history of the storied church, which is officially known as the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster. —Around 960: St. Dunstan, the bishop of London, sets up a religious community on Thorney Island, a swampy area on the banks of the River Thames. —1066: William the Conqueror is crowned king in the abbey on Christmas Day. —1245: Henry III ... More New Works by Grayson Perry to Go on Show in Manchester LONDON.- Two major new works by Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry are to go on show in Manchester in the New Year. They have just been bought for Manchester Art Gallery’s permanent collection. The Art Fund gave £24,025 to help the Gallery buy one of Perry’s most recent ceramic vases, Jane Austen in E17, and one of his first major etchings, Print for a Politician. The MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund also contributed vital funds alongside two Manchester-based families, the Goldstone and Livingstone Family Trusts. Jane Austen in E17 (2009) is a large ceramic vase inspired in shape by Chinese porcelain, decorated with detailed drawings of elaborately dressed Georgian ladies taking tea and conversing. The drawings refer to the ideal view of British culture portrayed in popular costume dramas of Jane Austen’s novels. In contrast, the vase incorporates cuttings from celebrity magazines. It also includes more sinist ... More Freeman's Realizes $1.5 Million on Americana & Pennsylvania Auctions PHILADELPHIA, PA.- It was an exciting weekend for Freeman's American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts auction and the 5th Anniversary Pennsylvania Sale. Freeman's experienced a crowded room all weekend, with dramatic bidding for Sunday's Philadelphia and Pennsylvania heritage items. The highest price achieved was from an Edward Duffield Tall Case clock, which after extensive in-room and phone bidding, realized $193,000 to an in-room buyer. Duffield's clock was emblematic of the success of the sale: as both a significant historical item and a outstanding example of Philadelphian craftsmanship. Duffield was a friend of Benjamin Franklin, and created the first public clock in America. He also helped found the Philosophical Society. The clock shares the spotlight with a miniature portrait of Revolutionary General Daniel Morgan, purchased by an institution at $85,000 - more than tripling the low-estimate. Another highlight ... More Founder of Chicago's DuSable Museum Dies By: Sophia Tareen, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP).- A founder of one of the oldest African-American history museums in the country has died. A spokesman for the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago, Raymond Ward, says Margaret Burroughs died in her sleep at her Chicago home Sunday morning at age 93. Further details were not immediately available. President Barack Obama said in a statement that Burroughs was "widely admired for her contributions to American culture as an esteemed artist, historian, educator, and mentor." Burroughs founded the museum with her husband and others on Chicago's South Side in 1961. The museum has pieces of art, exhibits on civil rights and a display on Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington. It was named after Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, widely regarded as Chicago's first permanent resident. ... More Former Driver to Elderly Poet Guilty of Stealing Artworks by Andy Warhol and Francis Picabia NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A U.S. jury on Monday found a former driver of a wealthy elderly poet guilty of stealing artworks by Andy Warhol and Francis Picabia as well as millions of dollars from his former employer. James Biear, 50, was convicted on all 10-counts including fraud and money laundering charges, the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office said in a statement. "James Biear preyed upon an elderly man and robbed him of artwork it took him a lifetime to collect," Manhattan U.S. attorney Preet Bharara said in the statement. "He also stole millions of dollars, and even the valuable spoons the victim used to eat his breakfast every morning," Bharara said. Biear was found guilty of stealing $3.2 million from his victim, Kenward Elmslie. He used the money to buy himself a house and luxury furnishings, court papers said. Biear also stole a box created by Andy Warhol called "Heinz 57," along with pieces by artists Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, and Alex Katz among others. He sold the W ... More Founder: Ignacio Villarreal Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal - Consultant: Ignacio Villarreal Jr. Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda - Marketing: Carla Gutiérrez Web Develope: Gabriel Sifuentes - Special Contributor: Liz Gangemi Special Advisor: Carlos Amador - Contributing Editor: Carolina Farias   Forward email This email was sent to omsstraffic.2222@blogger.com by adnl@artdaily.org. Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe™ | Privacy Policy. 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