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...Auction sales will post a record year, calculates Christine Bourron, chief executive of the analytics company Pi-eX....
...An iconic Andy Warhol silkscreen of the movie star Marilyn Monroe sold for $195mn at Christie’s on Monday, a record price for a work by a US artist and the highest price ever paid for a piece of 20th century...
...Christie’s has set ambitions high for Andy Warhol’s signature square silkscreen, “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” (1964)....
...Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” silkscreen sold for $195mn at Christie’s this month, becoming the highest-priced 20th-century art work to be sold at auction....
...Christie’s sold the priciest work at auction so far this year, Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” (1964), for $170mn in May ($195mn with fees) — below its low estimate of $200mn....
...Sales were boosted by three significant collections and topped by Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” (1964) at $170mn ($195mn with fees)....
...Pollock’s abstract “Number 17, 1951”, from his Black Paintings series, also set a record at $61m, including fees....
...Marilyn Manson, who faces allegations of sexually assaulting a number of women, which he denies, has a singing role on “Jail Pt 2”, along with DaBaby, who delivers an uncontrite rap about being “cancelled...
...While reviewing shock rocker Marilyn Manson’s most recent album — We Are Chaos — last year, I flipped through his 1998 autobiography The Long Hard Road out of Hell to see whether the sexism I heard in his...
...I’m reminded of Marilyn Monroe, who threw a crammed party on the top bunk of an open-berth sleeper train in Some Like It Hot. But there’s no party tonight....
...The company, which published its first magazine in December 1953 with then rising star Marilyn Monroe on the cover, has shifted its business from the nude images that catapulted the company to fame....
...The 1950s are defined by Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, while the 1960s are associated with The Beatles and youthful protest....
...American goth-rock singer Marilyn Manson picked up the song for a version in 2001 that was bombastic, trashy and just as absurd as a number on the soundtrack of a parodic film called Not Another Teen Movie...
...Dre’s 1992 album and subsequent records from Snoop, Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson turned Interscope into a force in music, albeit a controversial one....
...Marilyn Manson’s 1995 cover was all mock-horror. Bryan Ferry and Annie Lennox played it straight, as did Jeff Beck and Joss Stone, whose 2010 version was nominated for a Grammy award....
...A group of models, one dressed like Charlotte Rampling in The Night Porter, another a hybrid of Marilyn Manson and David Bowie (circa Diamond Dogs), were wearing Givenchy couture as we wound our way round...
...The Blue Moon of Josephine holds the record for any diamond or gemstone....
...Tuesday’s biggest ticket item was Andy Warhol’s Four Marilyns, which sold for $36m including buyer’s fees — just two years after selling at Phillips for $38.2m....
...This week there were new record prices for works by artists including Cy Twombly, Louise Bourgeois, Roy Lichtenstein, Paul Gauguin and Gustave Courbet....
...leadership, otherwise I wouldn’t take [Ms Ma] to Rwanda and also she would not make the decision,” says Ms Hai, of the country’s austere leader, Paul Kagame, who has also faced criticism for his human rights record...
...Mitchell, 71, is renowned for her lack of public appearances, and Saint Laurent are renowned for their collaborations with music icons (past campaign stars have included Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson)...
...Last year, MSCI ranked the NSE as the world’s fourth-best performing stock market index, with a return of 44 per cent, while this year the index has gained about 17 per cent, reaching record highs earlier...
...But the country has a poor record in paying its electricity bills, making it difficult to raise money for a project that cannot guarantee payback....
...In that regard, Dion no longer seems all that dissimilar from Alanis Morissette or, what the hell, from Marilyn Manson; they are fused by a 1990s Caucasian je ne sais quoi....
...His estate has earned $700m since his death, according to Michael Jackson Inc, a recent book about the singer’s business empire....
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