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- Tate St Ives won the 2018 Art Fund Museum of the Year
Art Fund director and Chair of the Judges Stephen Deuchar described the new extention to the museum as 'Deeply inteligent and breathtakingly beautiful'...
- Having its toes in the gushing waters of the river Calder, Wakefield's Art Gallery is a superb choice for a cultural day out. It was also a well deserved WINNER of the Art Fund Museum of the Year last year, 2017..
An art fund card will earn a good discount for purchases here, and there are some other treats not too far away also!
- We are delighted that, following last years December Flood, our favourite North London Gallery, James Freeman are open and once more thrilling us with some outrageously imaginative works.
From 8th to 28th March 2018, another show not to miss from James Freeman was 'Makers of Marks'
Drawing and printmaking have much shared history and enjoy a deeply interwoven relationship, but even so, contemporary artists still find new ways of making them play off each other. In 'Makers of Marks' the gallery present three artists who experiment with this relationship against a background of classical references: Daniel Hosego, Sam Branton and Jon Braley.
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Celebrity Memorabilia
Marilyn's little red dress £120,000
Among the million objects listed daily for sale on Barnebys search engine, provided by some 2,000 auction houses globally, there is a significant and growing amount of so-called 'celebrity memorabilia'.
This area of collecting is seeing a huge growth in prices paid. Take just one item, the little gingham dress worn by Judy Garland as 'Dorothy' in the Wizard of Oz. In 2012 it sold for $490,000 and just two years later this plain simple little blue gingham dress worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 movie sold for $1.56m at auction in New York.
Described as bearing sweat stains around the neck but in good condition, the costume was believed to be one of only two such pinafores that Garland actually wore on-screen for the classic musical. It was sold to an unidentified buyer bidding by telephone.
A year before in 2014, the cowardly lion costume worn in the movie by actor Bert Lahr, including the sculpted likeness of Lahr's face, sold for almost $3.1m.
What is going on here? Are people crazy? It would seem so. But in this age obsessed by celebrity there is a desire to own something once owned by your favourite celebrity.
There is a very fine line between what is collectable and what is weird. The following pieces of celebrity memorabilia snapped up by collectors show that people will buy just about anything belonging to a celebrity, regardless how gross. William Shatner's kidney stone; Britney Spears pregnancy test, Justin Timberlake's french toast, a tissue used by Scarlett Johansen, a drop of Ronald Reagan's blood, Justin Bieber's hair and John Lennon's tooth have all found eager buyers. As have Willie Nelson's braids and Hitler's personal telephone.
At Julien's Auction House, Highlights of Marilyn Monroe items from The Collection of David Gainsborough-Roberts included a sheer black beaded and sequined dress worn by Monroe in her Golden Globe winning role Sugar Kane as she crooned "I'm Through With Love" in the award winning 1959 film Some Like it Hot; an elaborate embellished stage gown worn by Monroe as she sang "After You Get What You Want You Don't Want It" in the 1953 comedy There's No Business Like Show Business which was designed by one of Marilyn's all-time favourite designers, WilliamTravilla. The material sold for record prices.
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