RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A traveling exhibition of works from Pablo Picasso’s personal collection is breaking records at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Museum spokeswoman Suzanne Hall tells The Richmond Times-Dispatch that more than 75,000 regular admission tickets have been sold. Another 11,577 reserved tickets have been sold.
Hall says museum memberships have topped 31,000, another record. She says many of the new memberships can be attributed to interest in Picasso.
“Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musee National Picasso, Paris” opened in February and is scheduled to run through May 15.
The exhibit includes 176 of the artist’s paintings, drawings, sculptures and etchings.
Richmond is the exhibit’s only stop on the East Coast.
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Michael Jackson personally worn and owned white sequined glove from the Thriller era, circa 1982. It is in excellent condition and carries a $50,000-$60,000 estimate. Image courtesy of Premiere Props. EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – Premiere Props will auction a collection of rare Michael Jackson items on April 2-3. Included will be a rare stage-worn “Billie Jean” black sequin jacket and a personally worn and owned custom white sequin glove from the “Thriller” era, his personal jacket from the “HIstory” World Tour and a signed fedora. A preview will be from 9-11a.m. both days of the sale. The auction will begin at 11 a.m. Pacific both days.
LiveAuctioneers will provide Internet live bidding both days.
In addition to the Michael Jackson items fans will also be able to bid on rare and iconic Hollywood memorabilia including:
Titanic – Original drawing of Rose (Kate Winslet) by James Cameron;
Batman Returns – Full signature costume on Michael Keaton life-size figure;
Batman Forever – The Riddler’s (Jim Carrey) hat and cane;
Apocalypse Now – Guitar played by Robert Duvall;
Terminator 3 – Arnold Schwarzenegger full leather signature costume;
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – Grail Knight sword from finale;
Logan’s Run – Farrah Fawcett’s green futuristic dress;
Camelot – Excalibur sword used by Richard Harris;
I Dream of Jeannie – Iconic original bottle signed by Barbara Eden;
Betrayed – Clark Gable’s hat;
Max Factor’s Beauty Calibration Machine;
Britney Spears’ bustier/bodysuit from the video for Circus, which was also worn for the CD cover and her Rolling Stone magazine shoot.
“Collectors will be clamoring for these rare and amazing items,” said Dan Levin, vice president of Marketing for Premiere Props. “To own something worn by Michael Jackson, Batman, Indiana Jones or the Terminator is a collector’s dream and we are thrilled to be able to offer our buyers items of such significance.”
In total there will be over 1,000 items going up for auction and proceeds from some of the pieces will be designated for specific charities.
Fans can starting bidding now, placing absentee bids online at www.liveauctioneers.com. For additional information on any lot in the sale, call 310-322-PROP or tollfree 888-761-PROP.
The auction will be conducted at Premiere Props’ headquarters, 128 Sierra St., El Segundo, CA 90245.
‘Hellboy’ (2004) costume on stand-up life-size form. His ‘hand of doom,’ head and gun are high-end replicas made from the original molds. Also included are five rare teaser posters with Hellboy creator Mike Mignola artwork. Estimate: $500-$1,000. Image courtesy of Premiere Props.‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’ sword (1989). – This is the hero metal sword from the film’s finale where the old knight confronts Indy. Estimate: $5,000-$6,000. Image courtesy of Premiere Props.Britney Spears (2008) – This vintage gold rhinestone encrusted bodysuit was worn by Spears in the video for the title track from her 2008 comeback album ‘Circus.’ Estimate: $15,000-$17,000. Image courtesy of Premiere Props.‘Batman Returns’ (1992) – Batman (Michael Keaton) screen-worn original hero bat suit from the film directed by Tim Burton. Boots are not original, however, were made from the original molds. Estimate: $42,000-$45,000. Image courtesy of Premiere Props.‘Laverne and Shirley’ (1976) – These monkey costumes were worn by the characters Laverne and Shirley (played by Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams respectively) in an episode of the TV show, which ran from 1976-1983. Costumes also include red pillbox hats. Estimate: $40,000-$45,000. Image courtesy of Premiere Props.
Edwin Perkins invented Kool-Aid in Hastings, Neb., in 1927, the same year the OK Café opened. Owner Patrick Randolph displays vintage Kool-Aid packets along with other antiques at the café. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers Archive and Dan Morphy Auctions. HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) – As one who has lived here all but two years of his life, Patrick Randolph is proud to call Hastings home.
Randolph, 67, and his wife, Mary Jo, own the OK Café. It is one of many local business ventures he has tackled over the years.
An old railroad man by trade, he worked for the Union Pacific Railroad, 1965-80, as a brakeman and yardmaster. So when he bought the OK Café in 1975 at its former location by the old viaduct, he felt right at home in his new surroundings. When the restaurant moved to its current location in 1988, he began to hear just how much customers missed the old railroad ambiance the former location provided.
It was through these comments from customers that his interest in antiques was piqued. His collection, much of which he has on display inside the restaurant, is his way of paying tribute to the pioneers who helped define the city’s identity through the years.
“I’ve always been interested in antiques because they kind of tell a story,” he said. “And we’re all part of that story. When people come in, they say, ‘I remember that’ or ‘I had one of those,’ and that’s part of their history.
“So I put pieces in here that are recognizable that people can see and connect with. There’s a piece of equipment that farmers used to catch chickens with; farming equipment, (cattle) dehorning stuff. … Other items represent occupations: Army, National Guard, city workers and telephone line equipment.”
His framed Kool-Aid packets are of personal significance, as he grew up across the street from Frank Perkins, brother of Kool-Aid inventor Edwin Perkins.
“We lived at 214 W. Fifth St., and Frank always came through with Kool-Aid and stuff like that,” he said. “There were 10 of us kids, and we were always doing chores for him. We always had our supply of Kool-Aid.”
His antique collection isn’t confined to the restaurant, however. There are pieces of antique furniture in his home, as well. And antique vehicles, including a 1957 Porsche and 1957 Harley-Davidson motorcycle. But mostly, his best stuff is on display for all the world to see at the restaurant, which he says has been a hub for special meetings between city and state officials and other prominent citizens of the community for decades.
“This restaurant was started in 1927,” he said. “This is the third location. It’s basically a Hastings institution.” As such, he said he really hopes to see it go on indefinitely. His beloved antiques which include a G scale locomotive from Germany that totes some 60 cars advertising area businesses around on two tracks that circle the cafe’s interior, have become part of that institution.
“Basically what I did was I went out and saw the antiques that I thought would represent something of the past and brought them in and made them the final decor,” he said. “Very seldom do I add anything now unless somebody else brings something in.
“I hope the cafe goes on forever doing the same thing. And being an asset to the community of Hastings, not just the owner.”
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Information from: Hastings Tribune,
http://www.hastingstribune.com
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Edwin Perkins invented Kool-Aid in Hastings, Neb., in 1927, the same year the OK Café opened. Owner Patrick Randolph displays vintage Kool-Aid packets along with other antiques at the café. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers Archive and Dan Morphy Auctions.
Sonia, who was intent on merging art and everyday life, applied this principle of “simultaneity” (color suggesting motion) to clothing, which naturally moves and flows with the body. She says she realized the potential of fabric in 1911, when she made a patchwork quilt for her newborn son and saw that it evoked the abstract patterns of cubist art.
In the next decade, she began making dresses in bold, geometric patterns that expressed the artistic ideas her husband was working out in paint on canvas. Her unusual ability to merge fine art with fashion marked the beginning of a long career as a groundbreaking textile and fashion designer. In 1964, she became the first living female artist to have a retrospective at the Louvre.
Now more than 300 of her garments, textiles and designs are on view at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in an exhibition that focuses on her work in the 1920s, when she had her own fashion house in Paris, and in the 1930s, when she was designing fabrics for the Amsterdam luxury goods department store Metz & Co.
What’s amazing about Delaunay’s designs is how contemporary they look nearly 100 years later. As Matilda McQuaid, head of the textiles department at the Cooper-Hewitt, explains in the catalog, in the ’20s, Paris was the undisputed capital of the fashion world. Women demonstrated their independence through simplified styles, loose clothing and by tooling around in the new consumer plaything – the automobile.
Delaunay was the designer for the age. She designed costumes for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes, and combined text and fabric in “poem dresses” worn to Dadaist soirees. After her “Simultane” collections were featured at the 1925 International Exposition of Decorative Arts in Paris, she received commissions from celebrities and actresses, including film star Gloria Swanson.
But high-profile clients weren’t enough to keep her fashion house afloat. After it closed in 1929, she continued designing textiles, finding an eager client in Metz & Co., which bought more than 200 of her designs. Although her later designs became slightly more commercial, they are still remarkable for their strong sense of color, originality and vitality.
Delaunay, who died at age 94 in 1979, was extraordinarily versatile. Besides her textiles and clothing, she illustrated books, painted ceramics, and designed costumes, interiors, tapestries and rugs. After World War II, she concentrated on her painting.
The timing of the Cooper-Hewitt show couldn’t be better. Several of Robert Delaunay’s cubist-inflected canvases can be seen in a survey of early 20th-century art at the Guggenheim Museum, two blocks away.
“Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay” opened March 18 and will close June 5. There are no plans for it to travel.
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The north wall of the Castillo de San Marcos. Image by Victor Patel. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) – Two north Florida men accused of spray-painting graffiti on a 17th-century Spanish fort in St. Augustine face federal charges.
U.S. Attorney Robert O’Neill announced Thursday that a grand jury had indicted 22-year-old Scott Anthony Hill and 20-year-old Fang Chin Tsai on charges of malicious mischief and violation of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act.
The indictment says Hill and Tsai caused more than $500 damage in January to the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument. They were arrested after police linked them to multiple graffiti incidents around St. Augustine.
Prosecutors say Hill and Tsai could potentially face up to three years in federal prison. Jail records did not say if the men had attorneys.
Construction on the Castillo de San Marcos began in 1672.
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Aerial view of the Cedar Swamp Wildlife Area, New Castle County, Del. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. TOWNSEND, Del. (AP) – Authorities say three Sussex County men have been charged after they were caught unearthing archaeological artifacts in a state wildlife area.
Sgt. Gregory Rhodes of the Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife Enforcement said the men dug up items such as pottery shards, pieces of glass, brass belt buckles and old coins. An agent from the division caught the men digging last week at the Cedar Swamp Wildlife Area near Townsend.
Arrested on charges of removing archaeological resources were 44-year-old John Justice of Lewes; 68-year-old Elmer Justice of Laurel; and 50-year-old Mark Silicato of Milford. All three were issued a summons to appear in court.
It is illegal under state law to remove archaeological resources – artifacts at least 50 years old – from state lands without a permit.
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