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Most readers spend a lot of time happily immersed in words. But for a change of pace, these gorgeous art books provide hours of blissful visual diversion.

Most readers spend a lot of time happily immersed in words. But for a change of pace, these gorgeous art books provide hours of blissful visual diversion.

Most readers spend a lot of time happily immersed in words. But for a change of pace, these gorgeous art books provide hours of blissful visual diversion.

Paul Greenhalgh’s ambitious survey takes us from the ancient Greeks to Picasso and beyond

Designing Women III: MOTHER Opens at Egg Collective’s Tribeca Gallery May 4, 2021 According to the National Women’s Law Center, more than 2.3 million women have left the American labor force since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, 2020. For Hillary Petrie, partner with Stephanie Beamer and Crystal Ellis in New York’s Egg Collective, this data is more than just an “incredible loss in creative capital.” It points to the “motherhood penalty,” or the sociological term f...

Jeff Rankin: John Lugg — Monmouth’s memorable mortician Jeff Rankin The Rankin File For most of us, the profession of funeral director may seem dreary or even macabre, and conjure up the image of a polite but morose individual. Although his name might have reflected those characteristics, longtime Monmouth mortician John Lugg would never have been described in those terms. Upon his death in 1951, he was celebrated as one of the city’s most engaged and engaging characters — an erudite, c...

Converse Auctions announces highlights included in the East West Antique Auction Pair of oil portraits done around 1900 depicting New York surgeon Dr. Stanley Gardiner and his wife, Elizabeth Bennett Gardiner (est. $1,000-$1,500). PAOLI, PA .- A beautiful hand-painted Chinese bottle vase, a painting of roses by the French ‘fleuriste’ Raoul M. De Longpré (1843-1911), and an impressive African Dan Guere mask with cowrie shells and bronze bells are a few expected top lots in Converse Auctions’...

Chinese and Japanese antiques meet items from the Western culture in Converse Auctions Feb. 27 sale PAOLI, Pennsylvania Subject Line Please provide verification code Email is invalid Color lithograph on grey-ochre paper signed by Marcel Salinas (French, 1913-2010), after one of the 29 paintings from Pablo Picasso’s cycle Portraits Imaginaires (est. $1,000-$1,500). Converse Auctions PAOLI, Pa. – A beautiful hand-painted Chinese bottle vase, a painting of roses by the French ‘fleu...

The auction will be online-only with previews by appointment only at the gallery in Paoli, Pa. All lots have a $10 starting bid; it’s a tactic designed to encourage people to bid early and bid often.

Text size Klein Reid was founded in Brooklyn in 1993 by James Klein and David Reid, two self-described “art kids” from Ohio who are widely credited with bringing design to American pottery by joining together traditional art pottery methods and industrial techniques.  Coveted for their formal porcelain objects and ceramic lighting, KleinReid’s work can be found in museums around the world, and has attracted celebrities, design mavens, ...