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Harris: Project gets off to 'beautiful' start
The stickers are simple and, well, beautiful. Printed on reflective silver, they're cut in the size and shape of a nametag and say "you are beautiful" in bold, black print. They're the "all-encompassing" artistic statement of Chicago graphic...
Tags: Auction Service, Corn Products International Incorporated, Science and Technology, Melissa Harris, Chicago Tribune Columnists
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Musical chairs: Jessica Simpson buys Osbourne home
In a multimillion-dollar twist on celebrity musical chairs, singer-actress Jessica Simpson has purchased Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne's estate in Hidden Hills for $11.5 million, public records show. The Cape Cod-inspired mansion, built in 2001, sits on a 2....
Tags: Swimming, America's Got Talent (tv program), Rental Service, Jerry Weintraub, My Bloody Valentine (movie, 2009)
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Hopi masks auctioned in Paris amid outrage and legal objections
This post has been corrected. See below for details. The gavel came down on 70 sacred Hopi Indian masks at the Drouot auction house in Paris on Friday, generating $1.2 million for the owners and auctioneers – and anger and emotional cries from...Tags: Auction Service, UNESCO, Smithsonian Institution, Museums, Arts and Culture
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Quick Takes: Own William Faulkner's Nobel
New Yorkers got a preview Wednesday of an auction rarity: a Nobel Prize for literature. The 1950 medal belonged to William Faulkner, one of America's best-known and respected novelists. It comes with a hand-edited draft of Faulkner's acceptance speech;...Tags: Auction Service, Buckwild (tv program), United Kingdom, Hillary Clinton, Downton Abbey (tv program)
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Hand over the book, Britain, it's the Getty's
When British authorities the other day denied an export license for a 15th-century Flemish manuscript acquired last December by the J. Paul Getty Museum at a London auction, few could have been surprised. Stopping the export of exceptional works of...
Tags: Auction Service, United Kingdom, Downton Abbey (tv program), Politics, Government
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Basquiat book in the works to feature unseen archives, art
Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is back -- despite dying in 1988 at age 27. On the first day it was open, more than 4,000 people turned out to see a show of his work at Gagosian Gallery in New York in February. His notebooks will be exhibited at Paris'...
Tags: Arts, Google+, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen Colbert, Awards and Prizes
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Napoleon's engagement ring for Josephine fetches $948,000
No trip to your local Zales or Kay Jewelers will cost as much as what someone paid over the weekend for a diamond and sapphire engagement ring that Napoleon gave to his beloved Josephine. The ring reportedly sold for 730,000 euros ($948,000) at an auction...Tags: Auction Service
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Mexico trying to stop antiquities sale at Sotheby's in Paris
Another antiquities auction has turned into another international art dispute. This time it’s the sale, scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Sotheby’s in Paris, of the Barbier-Mueller Collection of Pre-Columbian art from Mexico and Central...Tags: Arts, Auction Service, Artists, Politics, New York City
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Chinese bowl bought for just $3 sells for $2.2 million at auction
This post has been corrected. See below for details. An ancient Chinese bowl that dates from the Northern Song dynasty sold for $2.2 million on Tuesday at a Sotheby's auction in New York. What makes the sale particularly noteworthy is that the sellers...
Tags: China, Auction Service, BBC
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Comedian Rita Rudner has a real grabber
Rita Rudner is applying her comedic talent to the sale of her Dana Point beach house, and the result is a spot-on parody of a home marketing video. Her husband, director-writer Martin Bergman, featured the Monarch Bay home in the 2011 film "Thanks,"...Tags: Dallas 2011 (tv program), Rita Rudner, Young Justice (tv program), Condos, Property
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Patricia Heaton in 'The Middle' of home sale in Hancock Park
Actress Patricia Heaton, who stars in "The Middle," and her husband, actor David Hunt, put their home in Hancock Park up for sale at $8.295 million, and in three weeks it was in escrow. The Italianate Mediterranean-style estate was built in 1923. The...
Tags: Arts, Swimming, Touchback (movie), Ronald Reagan, Music Industry
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Quick Takes: Roger Ebert fights cancer again
Roger Ebert, one of America's preeminent and popular film critics, has announced that he will reduce the amount of writing he takes on as he fights a new battle with cancer, calling it a "leave of presence." Writing on his site Tuesday night, Ebert said...Tags: Roger Ebert, Pakistan, Travel, International Travel, Bill Bryson
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