A Dali watercolour of a reclining nude that had been hanging in the bedroom of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has been sold for more than 266,000 dollars at an auction in New York. The work, which was expected to fetch not more than 150,000 dollars, was among the 125 artworks the magazine offered at Christie”s [...]
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Playboy nude artwork sells for $266K at NY auction
December 10th, 2010 |
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Christie Brinkley shares her fitness secrets
December 2nd, 2010 |
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Supermodel Christie Brinkley has shared her workout and fitness secrets with Shape magazine and she”s also giving her advice on how anyone can look their best and stay fit with the same techniques. She says that when it comes to working-out she finds variety is the key and that it”s important to her to not [...]
James Bond gun fetches £277,250 at auction
November 26th, 2010 |
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A Walther air pistol, held by Sean Connery in a publicity shot for the James Bond classic ‘From Russia With Love’, has fetched more than 250,000 pounds at an auction. The gun sold for 277,250 pounds, more than 10 times its estimate of 15,000-20,000 pounds at Christie’s in London on Thursday, reports the BBC. Meanwhile, [...]
Thanksgiving Crumbs!
November 25th, 2010 |
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Happy Turkey Day, All! Enjoy the holiday season. Have you had your annual helping of cranberry sauce from the can yet? Here are a few Thanksgiving links to tide you over ’til dinner time: -Some things never change: Bad boy basketball star Dennis Rodman has apologized after giving a call-in radio interview while getting his [...]
Apple-1 Computer Sells at Auction for $213,600
November 24th, 2010 |
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Apple-1, Apple’s first computer, sold for around $213,600 at a Christie’s auction Nov. 23. Someone really wanted a piece of tech history. – Back in 1976, the Apple-1 sold for $666.66. It featured 8k RAM and a cassette board connector, pitiful in comparison to the hardware and power of descendants like the iMac. But thanks to the Apple-1s place in Apple history, one of the machines sold for the equivalent of $213,600 at a Nov. 23 auction…
Dennis Hopperâ€s art fetches $10mn at auction
November 15th, 2010 |
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Late Dennis Hopper’s art collections have fetched more than 10 million dollars, almost double the minimum estimate, this week at a Christie”s contemporary-art auction. The “Easy Rider” star, who died in May, was an avid collector as well as a painter and photographer himself, reports the New York Post. Forty works he owned including pieces [...]
Apple-1 Computer Could Auction for Almost $250,000
November 14th, 2010 |
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Apple-1, Apple’s first computer, could auction for up to $242,000 at Christie’s later in November. Is that price-tag worth it for something designed by Wozniak? – Apples new MacBook Air starts at $999. Its 12-core Mac Pro will set you back $4,999. And the 64 GB iPad with Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity? A cool $829.99.
Dirt cheap, all of them. At least when compared to the Apple-1 PC due on Christies block later in November. The storied auction house estimates bid…
“Jersey Shore†On “The TODAY Show†VIDEO [07/29/10]
July 29th, 2010 |
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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The cast of MTV’s Jersey Shore are in the Big Apple this week as America’s Favorite Guidos and Guidettes celebrate the premiere of a second season of barflying and beer-guzzling at the beach. Thursday’s stop on the Jersey Shore Season 2 brought the well-gelled [...]
Christie Brinkley Selling Long Island Mansion For $15.75 Million
July 28th, 2010 |
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You, too, can live like a supermodel. Got $15 million laying around?Fashion icon and socialite Christie Brinkley is parting with one of several properties she owns on New York’s Long Island The five-bedroom house, located near Sag Harbor on the island’s eastern end, is going for $15.75 million. The waterfront home, fronted with massive white [...]
NJ Governor Chris Christie Slams “Jersey Shoreâ€
July 26th, 2010 |
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It may have given MTV it’s best ratings in years, but to Garden State lawmakers, the contributions of the hit reality soap Jersey Shore remain in question. Add conservative New Jersey governor Chris Christie to the list of staunch opponents of the reality show naysayers say gives NJ a bad name.The show — which turned [...]
Roy Rogers’ stuffed horse fetches $266,500 at auction
July 17th, 2010 |
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A stuffed horse belonging to late cowboy actor and singer Roy Rogers has been sold off for 266,500 dollars at an auction. Trigger, the palomino horse which Rogers, who died in 1998 at age 86, had stuffed after it died in 1965, was bought by rural US cable television station RFD-TV, while his saddle fetched [...]
More sense than money
June 25th, 2010 |
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Christie’s and Sotheby’s face buyer resistance
THE two leading auction houses, Sotheby’s and Christie’s, have come a long way since the dark days of late 2008, when the sudden collapse of the art market caused their revenues to plummet. At the time, they were forced to pay out nearly $200m in guarantees to honour contracts on works that had been consigned to auction, yet failed to sell on the day. Now, two years later, the sector is running ahead of itself. As the art-market recovery gets under way, auction houses now face a particularly delicate moment.
When art prices fell, auction houses struggled to attract sellers. Collectors faced with death, divorce or debt—three common reasons for selling—still consigned their works for auction. But discretionary selling fell back sharply. With the memory of the record prices of 2007 still fresh in many collectors’ minds, the question they asked themselves was “why sell if you don’t have to?” …
Smoked venison
June 2nd, 2010 |
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Can an auction house successfully manage a living artist’s primary market?
HAUNCH of Venison—an art gallery owned by an auction house—is a weird beast. When Christie’s acquired the firm in 2007, many doubted the health of this unconventional alliance of the primary and secondary market. Now that Haunch’s founders, Harry Blain and Graham Southern, have announced that they are leaving the gallery, skepticism may reach a new high.
The primary market offers work as it emerges from artists’ studios—that is, it’s for sale for the first time. The best primary dealers or “gallerists” tend to be quirky mavericks with such a good “eye” that they have their names over the door. They pay more attention to supply, so it’s paramount that they understand and nurture artists. Few are team players with a flair for corporate politics. The secondary market, by contrast, involves the resale of art objects, either through private dealers or auction houses. These traders focus on demand, and so have little contact with artists. Moreover, unlike primary gallerists, traders rarely opt to sell a work at a lower price to a museum in the interests of developing an artist’s career. High prices are an end in themselves for an auction house. …
Mel Gibson, ex-wife sell art collection at a loss
May 24th, 2010 |
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Actor Mel Gibson and his ex-wife Robyn Moore suffered loss on their multimillion dollar art collection that was recently auctioned due to the global economic slump.
The former couple auctioned their collection, while their divorce gets wrapped up.
However, the auction at New York’’s Christie’’s auction house saw unusually less biddings.
The pair faced a loss of 2 [...]
Changing Role of the CIO
May 21st, 2010 |
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Christie leads Global Crossings Information Technology groups, Global Crossing’s Customer Experience Re-Engineering (CER) team and initiatives, and the new function of Global Business Process. In this interview, Christie discusses how new technologies such as cloud computing can effect the job function of the CIO. He also lets you in on new technologies, that should be on your radar and how his company is working to improve your customer experience with such technologies.
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How to Build Global Technology Infrastructure
May 21st, 2010 |
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Christie leads Global Crossings Information Technology groups, Global Crossing’s Customer Experience Re-Engineering (CER) team and initiatives, and the new function of Global Business Process. In this interview, Christie explains how CIOs can learn from his experience to build a worldwide, service-based information technology infrastructure.
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Naked Kate Moss photos expected to fetch £30K at auction
May 19th, 2010 |
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Nude black and white photographs of supermodel Kate Moss are to go under the hammer.
Over a dozen photographs were taken in 1993 in Marrakech and are likely to fetch up to 30,000 pounds when they are sold on Friday.
The pictures that show the supermodel crouching on sand come in the form of the photographer”””’’s ‘contact [...]
Bang and fizzle
May 8th, 2010 |
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How it’s easier to sell something for $100m than for $1m
RECORD prices make big headlines. And they don’t come bigger than the story of Christie’s sale in New York on May 4th in which eight private collectors, including one Russian and another from Asia, fought over a richly coloured portrait Pablo Picasso painted of his young mistress during an unusual spurt of creativity in the spring of 1932, when he was 50 years old.
“Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” had belonged to the same American family since 1951. It had been shown just once in public and had only ever been photographed in black-and-white. The five-foot-high painting sold for $106.5m, the second $100m-plus price achieved for a work of art at auction this year (see article). (Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture “L’Homme qui Marche I” fetched $104.3m at Sotheby’s in February.) …
Will Jon Gosselin Be Back On Kate’s Reality Show?
April 13th, 2010 |
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A reality show with his ex-wife Kate, that’s the news Jon Gosselin has got to tell you. But don’t believe that is partially true since Kate’s show’s sources say it’s too early to say anything.
Then there is this new argument that Jon has got with Kate that she is neglecting their children for her [...]