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The Collection of Art Astor: RM Auctions sends another California collection across the block

Fresh off the sale of Joe's Garage, the private collection of the late collector Joe McPherson, the RM Auctions team again returned to Southern California June 27-29 to help radio broadcasting pioneer and noted enthusiast Art Astor sell a large portion of his personal collection. Totaling 200 cars and 786 memorabilia items (a refreshing mix of both radio and automotive pieces), the sale brought in over $15.4 million when it ended Sunday evening.

Garbage Collection: Reducing Pauses for Greater Java Performance

While garbage collection has been subject to a variety of optimizations over the year, it has often failed to keep pace with the continued growth in application scale and memory footprint. Long pause times, poor throughput, and inconsistent response typically arise during collection as Java applications push the practical limits of today's garbage collected runtime environments. Explore the measures being taken by organizations to improve upon the efficiency of garbage collection processes.

Delaware Art Museum Presents Gifted: Recent Additions To The Permanent Collection

Wilmington, DE— The Delaware Art Museum presents Gifted: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection, an exhibition featuring more than 30 works of art given to the Delaware Art Museum since its reopening in June 2005, on view July 12-November 9, 2008. Paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, and ceramics—including works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel collection—will be featured. Gifted offers visitors a glimpse into how the Museum’s collection grows through the generosity of collectors.

Major Collection of Surrealist Art Opens in Berlin

The "Surreal Worlds" exhibition in Berlin, which opened this week, consists of priceless works of art from the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection. Curator Julietta Scharf explains why her family has decided to open the valuable collection to the public now.

AcidSolitaire Collection now available for iPhone, iPod touch

Bringing popular computer card games like Solitaire, Freecell and Spider together, Red Mercury, LLC, a developer and publisher of iPhone games, have announced that AcidSolitaire(r) Collection is now available for sale on the App Store. Thanks to easy touch screen play, polished game play and snappy graphics, and incredible attention to detail, the AcidSolitaire Collection truly delivers the excellence you expect from iPhone and iPod touch games in either portrait or landscape mode.

Quickly diagnose your music collection with MP3 Check

Cataloguing, organising and tagging your MP3 collection is an arduous task. Particularly when your collection weighs more than a few gigabytes.

Accordance Bible Software releases new Primary Collection DVD

OakTree Software has released the Accordance Primary Collection 8 DVD. The latest in its Accordance line of Bible Software products, the Primary Collection 8 DVD lets users choose from a variety of study packages and install them from one disc.

Anyone ripped their entire DVD collection?

Over the weekend I was sitting down looking at my DVD collection when had one of those “weekend ideas” - Would it be feasible to rip my entire DVD collection to hard disk?

Footnote.com Releases Largest Online Collection of U.S. WWII and Vietnam War Photos

LINDON, Utah - In commemoration of Memorial Day, Footnote.com today announced its entire collection of military photos will be made permanently free on the site. The collection features over 80,000 photos from WWII and Vietnam, making it the larg

Accordance Bible Software Releases New Primary Collection DVD

OakTree Software, Inc. has announced the release of the Accordance Primary Collection 8 DVD. The latest in its Accordance line of Bible Software products, the Primary Collection 8 DVD lets users choose from a variety of study packages and install them from one convenient disc.

National Postal Museum Acquires Rare Stamp Collection

The Smithsonian's National Postal Museum has received a well-known stamp collection from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. The Harry L. Jefferys collection, which includes an inverted Jenny and numerous other philatelic rarities, was bequeathed to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in 1948 by insurance executive H.L. Jefferys. It has been in storage at the Institute for decades.

Magritte, Klee, Ernst and Man Ray: Major Collection of Surrealist Art Opens in Berlin

The "Surreal Worlds" exhibition in Berlin, which opened this week, consists of priceless works of art from the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection. Curator Julietta Scharf explains why her family has decided to open the valuable collection to the public now.

His Highness Sheikh Majid bin Mohammed opens DIFC Art Collection 1

His Highness Sheikh Majid Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (DCAA) yesterday opened an exhibition of works drawn from DIFC Art Collection 1, the Dubai International Financial Centre's collection of calligraphic works.

Footnote.com Releases Largest Online Collection of U.S. WWII and Vietnam War Photos

Collection Features More Than 80,000 Photos From WWII and Vietnam Now Freely Accessible at Footnote.com

Footnote.com Releases Largest Online Collection of U.S. WWII and Vietnam War Photos

Collection Features More Than 80,000 Photos From WWII and Vietnam Now Freely Accessible at Footnote.com

Surrealist art collection goes on show in Berlin

A collection of more than 250 surrealist and pre-surrealist artworks that ranges from Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel back to Francisco de Goya opens its doors to the public in Berlin Friday.

Surrealist Art Collection Opens in Berlin

A collection of Surrealist and pre-Surrealist art has gone on show in Berlin. The exhibition of paintings, sculptures and sketches includes works by Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, René Magritte and Goya.

Johnny Warren collection heads to museum

A collection of memorabilia celebrating the life of soccer legend Johnny Warren has been donated to the National Museum of Australia (NMA) in Canberra.

Surrealist art collection from Goya to Dali goes on display in Berlin

BERLIN - A collection of more than 250 surrealist and pre-surrealist artworks that ranges from Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel back to Francisco de Goya opens its doors to the public in Berlin on Friday.

Surrealist art collection from Goya to Dali goes on display in Berlin

BERLIN - A collection of more than 250 surrealist and pre-surrealist artworks that ranges from Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel back to Francisco de Goya opens its doors to the public in Berlin on Friday.


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