Archives of American #Art, #Smithsonian Institution in #Detroit

Eli Wilner Appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution:

"The Archives of American Art today, with over 16 million items, is the worlds pre-eminent and most widely used research center dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary sources that document the history of the visual arts in America."

Super Mario All-Stars #games #collecting

Justin’s Words of Wisdom: Don’t Buy Super Mario All-Stars | Primary Ignition:

"as of March 13, one final run of the Wii version of Super Mario All-Stars will be shipped. In case you forgot, the $30 package comes with the original All-Stars, a music CD and a small booklet with minimal information about every Mario game in the main series."

Greatest Collection of 20th-Century British Art auction #collecting

Sotheby's London to Offer the Greatest Collection of 20th-Century British Art Ever to Come to the Market:

LONDON.- Sotheby’s London announced the sale of the greatest collection of 20th-Century British Art ever to come to the market: The Evill/Frost Collection, a stand-alone three-part sale which launches with an Evening Sale on Wednesday 15th June 2011. This incomparable collection comprises outstanding works of the highest calibre by Modern British masters including the most important – and largest – group of paintings by Stanley Spencer ever to come to the market, in addition to works by Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Dame Barbara Hepworth, Graham Sutherland, Edward Burra and Patrick Heron, amongst many others. The collection – which is estimated to fetch in excess of 12 million pounds and comprises not only 20th-century British art but also furniture and porcelain – will be sold by the executors of the Honor Frost estate in order to benefit charitable causes relating to marine archaeology.

#Seed #Collector #collecting ++ http://tinyurl.com/collecting-supplies

The Seed Collector Scienceline:

The Seed Collector from Scienceline on Vimeo.

“Collecting is all about stripping and pulling and plucking,” she says, “getting the seed any way you can.”

From March to November, Liljengren travels throughout the 25 counties in and around New York City to collect seeds. Having evolved within the area over hundreds or thousands of years, native plants “support the working ecosystem that they are a part of,” Liljengren says.”They are ‘the right plants in the right place.’”