Mary Daniels

Driving up the prices on movie posters is the starstruck attitude among collectors of other types of movie memorabilia, such as costumes, props and scripts, which is taking place mainly...

One of the bidders at Leslie Hindman`s auction of ''Important 19th and 20th Century Architectural Objects and Designs,'' including some important prints, drawings, periodicals and objects relating to Frank Lloyd...

Nostalgia Shop, 534 N. Clark St., 312-527-0079. Opened in 1976 as a comic book shop, then found the movie poster business to be lucrative. Original posters, reproductions, stills, magazines. Owner...

Sometimes a statue is just a statue. The viewer can analyze the possibilities at an exhibition called ''The Sigmund Freud Antiquities: Fragments from a Buried Past.'' Affording a rare glimpse...

An intimate look at a fascinating ancient North African culture will be given in a lecture by James Jereb, an anthropologist who has made many forays into the field seeking...

The Turano Baking Co. has introduced an authentic round Italian dinner loaf in honor of its founder Mariano Turano, who died last year. A portion of the proceeds from the...

It takes 1.5 million knots to create a 4-by-6-foot Romanian Persian carpet, says Joseph Isfan, interpreter for two Romanian rug weavers who for the last few weeks had been demonstrating...

''What I do is very demanding; glass shows everything-scratches, imperfections, fingerprints-which is contrary to my nature. I`m kind of sloppy. But my whole nature is changing because of my work,''...

The East West Contemporary Art Gallery is celebrating its gala reopening in River North with ''Shan Zuo and Da Huang Zhou: Brothers Who Paint Together,'' a show that runs through...

''Even some people in Africa don`t know about this art; you have to be with the families (who own it) to find it,'' says Cheick Soukhouna, formerly of Mali and...