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Eye of the beholder: Miffed about the high price of New York art museum admission? There are plenty of art treasures to see close to home.

…Warhol, culled from the collection of Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum. His Campbell's soup cans, vibrant heads of Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, and clips of the famous and infamous trying out for his films re-create the Pittsburgh native's New York studio.

In conjunction with the Warhol show, the museum is displaying Pop Art prints by Warhol contemporaries from its own collection, including works by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.

And next summer, Allentown will see a major touring exhibition that had its start at The Museum of Modern Art. "The Art of Warner Bros. Cartoons" features the characters we all grew up with -- Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote, Porky Pig, Tweety Pie and Daffy Duck -- and the pioneers who created them.

"We think these are very important artists," says David Brigham, the museum's executive director.

The Reading Public Museum recently packed up an exhibit of more than 100 pieces of Keith Haring's work on display in "Journey of the Radiant Baby." Haring was a Reading native who grew up in Kutztown. We can claim Harry Bertoia, too, whose singing metal sculptures from his Berks County studio will replace Haring's paintings beginning Sept. 16 in the museum's main gallery.

Maryann Riker of Phillipsburg, N.J., an artist whose handmade…

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Diamond vendors noticed something surprising and gratifying at The JCK Show ~ Las Vegas: Retailers weren't just ordering, they were buying.

"Retailers are discovering that memo is no longer going to work," said Moshe Klein of Julius Klein. "There are so many foreign and European buyers now. Retailers are stepping up to the plate, because if they don't buy, they are not going to get the goods.

"Today it's not a matter of price," Klein continued. "It's a matter of who has the goods. He who has the goods makes the sale."

Alan Rehs of New York's Rehs Co. agreed. "Jewelers find a nice stone and they buy it and stock it," he said. "I don't need to consign them. They are willing to take the risk."

Rehs also found that retailers were accepting the recent price increases. Price increases were a particularly relevant issue since the Diamond Trading Company announced a 3 percent price rise just prior to the show.

"Retailers are telling me that there is a real scarcity, they can't find things," Rehs said. "So they are willing to pay the higher price."

Avi Paz, the newly elected president of the Israel Diamond…