NY art sales to tempt buyers with attractive prices (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Old Master painting sales will try to lure choosier buyers this month with lower price estimates as Christie's and Sotheby's auction houses adjust to a global art market dulled by the financial crisis.

Art Gala Planned for January 24 (East Aurora Advertiser)

The East Aurora Art Society will hold its third annual Crystal Moonlight Gala on January 24, 2009 at Absolut Care of Aurora Park in East Aurora. Members of the Gala Committee are putting together an evening for guests to remember. In the past two years the galas have been evenings of art, conversation and a time to break up the cold winter with a little color.

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Hubbard Lamp Sheds Light on Roycroft Founder (East Aurora Advertiser)

No one at the Rago Arts & Auction Center had ever seen anything like it before. An Arts & Crafts style table lamp, but only sort of--heavy and tall, with a finial of a jumping horse, medallions with the initials NHS suspended around the circumference of the bronze shade, and a copper band mounted to the base bearing yet other initials in script, AGV.

AP News Minute (East Aurora Advertiser)

What Do You think? Art Gala Planned for January 24 The East Aurora Art Society will hold its third annual Crystal Moonlight Gala on January 24, 2009 at Absolut Care of Aurora Park in East Aurora. Members of the Gala Committee are putting together an evening for guests to remember.

President Fillmore Returns for 209th Birthday Celebration in East Aurora (East Aurora Advertiser)

Millard Fillmore's birthday will again be celebrated in East Aurora when President Fillmore returns to The Roycroft Inn on Jan. 8 to assess the past year's political news. This year the Aurora Historical Society is sponsoring the dinner. Reservations should be made by sending a check for $25 to the Aurora Historical Society at P.O. Box 472, East Aurora, NY 14052 by Dec. 28.