Word: auctioned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Louvre, in the Louvre, in the vaulted Galerie Daru beneath the Winged Victory of Samothrace. There, seated at two long, mirrored tables and surrounded by 2,000-year-old statues of Roman Emperors, the guests dined on asparagus soufflé and veal noisettes before moving on to a charity auction and a Duran Duran concert held under the Louvre's landmark glass pyramid. The evening raised $2.7 million...
...entitled "Strategies Towards the Real: S. Sudjojono and Contemporary Indonesian Art," now tries to shed light on his political context and artistic legacy. But it also goes a step further by hanging 16 of his rarely seen works alongside those of contemporary Indonesian artists - among them current auction-market favorites I. Nyoman Masriadi, Agus Suwage and Rudi Mantofani - in a bid to convey the influence Sudjojono has had on generations after him. "Sudjojono is regarded as the theorist of modern Indonesian art," says Kwok Kian Chow, director of the Singapore Art Museum. "He casts a long shadow...
...London Hard Times Meet High Art Despite a sagging economy, Christie's auction house has racked up $3.5 billion in art sales so far this year--up 56% from 2006, in part because of demand in Russia, China and the Middle East. The two highest-selling works were Monet's Water Lily Pond, top, and a triptych by Francis Bacon...
...make pictures like these anymore. Case in point: Legal Eagles. It ought to work. Robert Redford can give good suave; Debra Winger could be Audrey Hepburn (or Kate) brought down to earth. The plot ransacks honorable sources: bantering, romancing lawyers from Adam's Rib, silky threats at an art auction from North by Northwest, the murderer and his motive from Charade. The movie's Manhattan locations exploit some of the most glamorous spots in Greenwich Village and Tribeca. Wallpapering the film is the work of 37 modern artists, which was flown at great expense from New York City to Universal...
...Elvis Presley impersonators, 150 banjo players, two aircraft carriers and one President of the United States. To help pay the spectacle's $30 million bill, Wolper offered the TV rights to the networks. ABC bid $10 million, beating out NBC, the only other network that took part in the auction. ABC's competitors did not mind losing the mock Presleys, but they did have an interest in reporting on that last fellow in the lineup. As part of its deal with Wolper, ABC agreed to provide the others with live coverage of the news portions of the festivities...