Degas Statue Owned by Madejski May Sell for 12 Million Pounds (Bloomberg)

Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- John Madejski , who last week won a knighthood in the U.K., is selling a bronze version of Edgar Degas ’s best-known sculpture at Sotheby’s February auction of Impressionist and modern art in London.

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.

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.

Madejski's Degas sculpture expected to make £12m (Evening Standard)

BUSINESSMAN Sir John Madejski is selling an important sculpture by French impressionist Edgar Degas. The Reading football club owner is to auction La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans (the Little Dancer aged 14), one of the few casts of the groundbreaking work left in private hands.

Savard set to replace Beliveau at head table (London Free Press)

Illness will prevent former Montreal Canadiens star Jean Beliveau from sitting at the head table of the Rogers Sports Celebrity Dinner and Auction on Jan. 19.

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.