The Center for Photography at Woodstock is presenting two gallery exhibitions, “Passionate Attitudes” and “German Herrera: Between Here & Now,” through December 23.

The folk artist Mose Tolliver, whose self-portraits and vivid images of nature, people, animals and the female form were done with humble house paint and made him one of the leaders of the modern-day outsider art movement, died here on October 30. He was in his 80s.

Beginning Saturday, November 18, the Stamford Museum & Nature Center (SM&NC) will present the exhibition “Teresa Barkley: A Life in Quilts,” showcasing a series from the artist’s more than 100 one-of-a kind creations executed over the past 35 years.

Clars Auction Gallery ended its 2005-06 season on a golden note with the sale of a gold quartz and gold knobbed ebony walking cane, dated 1871, that set a new record at $49,725.

The New-York Historical Society (N-YHS) will open “New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War,” the final exhibition in its groundbreaking series on slavery and its impact on the people, landscape, institutions and economy of New York, on November 17.

On September 16–17, Craftsman Auctions offered a comprehensive 1,100 lot auction of Arts and Crafts furniture, pottery, tile, lamps, art and accessories. The sale yielded $3.25 million from approximately 300 registered bidders and 500 on eBay.

Stanton Auction’s October 14 sale featuring early American furniture, fine art and folk art was strong in many areas, but none more so than with a selection of important weathervanes.

Celebrating the first year in his stylish new location on the main drag of this charming and lively antiques and art oriented town, Colin Stair, of Stair Galleries, conducted what the auctioneer termed his “best auction ever.”

The fourth year of B&D Johnson?s Greenwich Fall Antiques Show at the Greenwich Civic Center ? in promoter Derek Johnson?s words, ?the best looking show ever? ? was wrapped around a halcyon fall foliage weekend, October 14 and 15.

Atlantique City, “The Big One,” as it is known, is still big. With more than 500 dealers set up on the ten acres of floor space at the Atlantic City Convention Center October 13–15, buyers come from far and wide to shop the show that truly “has it all.”