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Last Friday, the Royal Wedding of the heir to the throne Prince William and Kate Middleton took place. In particular, there were many comments made about the bride’s dress designed by Sara Burton who took over the Alexander McQueen label following his unfortunate death a year ago.

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Those of you visiting New York this January are in luck because as can be expected this fabulous American city has a jam-packed full agenda of exciting things to do. In the city that sleeps everything is the biggest and the best, and the activities on offer the most varied the reason for which this city is such a popular tourist destination for visitors coming from all over the world. One of the events lined up for this January is the New York Winter Antiques Show to slowly ease everyone into the new year and taking place from the 21st the 30th of January.

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For the first time in history the New York Contemporary Art Museum, the prestigious MoMA, is dedicating an entire floor to a particular theme, New York Abstract Expressionist, in their Abstract Expressionist New York exhibition. Ever since the abstract expressionist term that unites artists of standing such Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko (amongst others) was coined, many changes have taken place in the history of the world. However, over the past 40 years the MoMA has been saving up these works as well as many others artists’ belongings for this movement thanks to the help of commissioners, agents and the artists themselves, comprising acquisitions that that have continued throughout the second half of the XX century, and which has given rise to the largest Abstract Expressionist art collection in the world