Atlantique City shoppers can try for two $500 shopping sprees

CINCINNATI – Attendees at the 2009 Atlantique City, New Jersey’s largest indoor antiques and collectibles show, will have the opportunity to win one of two $500 shopping sprees sponsored by Barbara Gerr Antiques of Galloway, N.J. Atlantique City returns to the Atlantic City Convention Center  for its now annual show on March 28-29, 2009.

Show buyers can enter a daily drawing for a $500 shopping spree in the appraisal/bookstore area of the show floor or right outside the Barbara Gerr Antiques booth, #1000. One winner will be randomly chosen each day to win the shopping spree. You must be present to win and the shopping spree is good for purchases made at the show.

“Barbara Gerr Antiques has been a tremendous partner over the last few years. Their sponsorship of the shopping sprees benefits all exhibitors as well as consumers and adds to the excitement at the show,” said show producer Eric Bradley of F+W Media. “Our buyers really look forward to the drawings.”

The March 2009 Atlantique City Show expects 400+ exhibitors of art, furniture, jewelry and vintage fashion, pottery, porcelain, glass, dolls, toys, silver and more. The show is considered by many dealers to be one of the easiest indoor shows to do because of drive-in set up that takes place over two days. It’s also a haven for collectors and decorators with objects and styles ranging from colonial to contemporary. 

Atlantique City will continue to offer attendees valuable services such as free furniture delivery within a 100-mile radius, free appraisals, drawings for shopping sprees and deep discounts on the latest antiques and collectibles books. A comprehensive multi-media marketing campaign includes advertising in daily newspapers, television, community-themed magazines and weekly papers.

 

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Art/music fusion in Sonic Youth multimedia exhibition

Sonic Youth exhibition poster. Image courtesy Kunsthalle Dusseldurf and KIT.
Sonic Youth exhibition poster. Image courtesy Kunsthalle Dusseldurf and KIT.
Sonic Youth exhibition poster. Image courtesy Kunsthalle Dusseldurf and KIT.

DUSSELDORF, GERMANY – An exhibition devoted to the activities of the experimental guitar band Sonic Youth, which profoundly influenced style in the music and art scene from its founding in 1981, has opened in Dusseldorf. The comprehensive project is being staged jointly by the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and KIT – Kunst im Tunnel.

Titled Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, the exhibition showcases the numerous joint projects undertaken by band members with various other artists, filmmakers, designers, and musicians, as well as works of art specificially selected by Sonic Youth for the exhibition. 

The interdisciplinary show, which runs through May 20, 2009, tells a story of contemporary culture that incorporates teenage rebellion, the craving for fame and the search for identity as expressed through gender roles, sexuality and religion. As a special highlight in conjunction with the exhibition, Sonic Youth will perform in an April 24, 2009 concert in Dusseldorf. Tickets have already sold out.

After its run in Dusseldorf, the exhibition will travel to the Malmö Konsthall in Malmö, Sweden.

Lost 1793 Trumbull painting discovered in England

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – A lost miniature painting by Connecticut native and Colonial-era painter John Trumbull has been found in England, where it was mislabeled for generations.

A London art dealer bought the painting for less than 200 pounds, or $280 American dollars, last month. A researcher for the dealer says the miniature, ascribed to “Humbert,” turned out to be one of many by Trumbull and was worth closer to $22,000.

Bendor Grosvenor, a researcher for London art dealer Philip Mould Ltd., said the 1793 portrait of Philadelphia lawyer William West turned up at what Grosvenor called “a very small country auction in Devon, in what in the states would be called an estate auction.”

The people who possessed the West portrait for years may have misread Trumbull’s signature as “Humbert,” Grosvenor said. The Philip Mould art dealership found Trumbull’s signature on the back of the painting, he said.

“We didn’t see the back of the painting until it got here,” Grosvenor told The Hartford Courant in a telephone interview from London. “It was quite a nice surprise it said Trumbull on the back.”

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