DALLAS – A rare 1966 concert poster from The Beatles’ performance at New York’s Shea Stadium set a world record for the most expensive concert poster ever sold at public auction when it brought $137,500 to lead Heritage Auctions’ Entertainment Auction to $1.68 million on Saturday, April 4. The sale more than doubled its preauction estimate and boasted a sell-through rate of 96.5% by value sold.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) – This month many comic book shops will not have a fresh crop of issues, which are released weekly, for the first time in recent memory — making purveyors of masked superheroes and illustrated stories the latest industry to face big changes due to the novel coronavirus.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – An Indianapolis nonprofit dedicated to boosting contemporary arts has folded after nearly two decades, citing the coronavirus pandemic as the final straw for the group.
NEW YORK – Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), known as the “Mother of American Modernism,” maintained creative independence through seven decades of shifting artistic trends. Following studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League of New York and Columbia University’s Teachers College, she taught in South Carolina, Texas and Virginia schools. Concurrently, she also created a series of daring charcoal abstractions.