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February 19, 2010 | 
What: Leather and brass dog collar belonging to Charles Dickens, 19th century
Where: Bonhams New York (February 19, The Dog Sale)
Estimate: $4,000-6,000
Sold For: $11,590
Like most Victorians, Dickens's love for dogs was well known. Although the exact animal that wore this collar is unknown, one account of his home at Gad's Hill (the address inscribed on the collar) writes: "the large dogs were quite a feature of the place, and were also rather a subject of dread to many outsiders...Linda, a St. Bernard had been living in the garden at Tavestock House before she was taken to Gad's Hill. She and Turk—a mastiff—were the constant companions in all their master's walks."
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February 17, 2010 | The Met blog show off a recently acquired daguerreotype The Salon of Baron Gros by Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gros—a French diplomat who took up photography while stationed in Bogota, Columbia. Curator Malcolm Daniel calls it the Met's finest French daguerreotype.
Ryan Sutton reviews the sleek new restaurants at the Museum of Arts & Design and the Guggenheim, and gets nostalgic for cafeteria food. Read it at Bloomberg.com.
Budding gallerists take heed! ARTNews examines just the right shade of white for your walls from Benjamin Moore's November Rain to the Getty's custom shade of (Richard) Meier White. Take your pick.
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Discovery |
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February 16, 2010 | Film historian Ira M. Resnick bought his first film posters forty years ag
o. These are still a part of his collection, which has grown to some 2,000 posters and 1,500 film stills, and has been published for the first time in Starstruck: Vintage Movie Posters from Classic Hollywood. As both a dealer and a collector, Resnick, who owns the Motion Picture Arts Gallery in New Jersey, is a leading authority in the world of film memorabilia, and here presents both a guide to collecting—with an appendices of his fifty favorite posters and a glossary of terms—and an in depth history of Hollywood's golden age from 1912 to 1962.
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The Market |
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February 12, 2010 | 
What: Madonna I by Andreas Gursky, 2001
Where: Sotheby's London (February 10, Contemporary Art Evening Auction)
Estimate: £900,000 - 1,300,000
Sold For: £1,077,250
Claimed to be the world's most collectable living photographer, Gursky took this large-scale aerial photograph, measuring 111 by 81 1/2 inches, of a Madonna concert at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Originally scheduled for September 11, 2001, the concert was postponed to September 13, due to the terrorist attacks that toppled the World Trade Center. This photograph—one of two prints made, the other is in the collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou—was inscribed for and given to Madonna, who can be seen on stage wearing an American flag tied around her waist. Due to its epic scale and heroic imagery, Sotheby's likens the image to the tradition of nineteenth-century history painting.
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February 10, 2010 | 
Louise Devenish gives readers a peak through the looking glass. Read more on the history of mirrors at 1stdibs.com.
Culled from the organization's online classifieds, the College Art Association posts rather bleak statistics for job opportunities in the arts. Take a look.
Just in time for the Oscars, Design*Sponge blogger Amy Merrick steals the look of Jane Campion's Bright Star. See her picks, and read our interview with the film's set decorator here.
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Sitzmaschine, model #670, Designed by Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956), Manufactured by J.& J. Kohn, Austria, ca. 1905.Bent beech wood, steel; height 39
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