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Jared Leto to Star in Warhol Biopic, NY Dealers Charged with Illegally Selling Ivory, and More Fresh News

Catherine Saunders-Watson
Catherine Saunders-Watson
Left: Andy Warhol with pet dog. Photo by Jack Mitchell, licensed through the Creative Commons ShareAlike 4.0 License. Right: Jared Leto at the 66th Venice Film Festival, 2009. Photo by Nicolas Genin, Paris, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
Left: Andy Warhol with pet dog. Photo by Jack Mitchell, licensed through the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Right: Jared Leto at the 66th Venice Film Festival, 2009. Photo by Nicolas Genin, Paris, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.

 

News and updates from around the arts and auction community:

  • Jared Leto has been tapped to play Andy Warhol in a biopic based on the legendary pop artist’s life. Leto is also going to co-produce the film together with Hollywood heavyweights Michael De Luca and Terence Winter. [Read more from The Hollywood Reporter]
  • Undercover investigators have arrested a sales clerk and two owners of a Manhattan antique shop for selling ivory without a license. [Read more from the New York Times]
  • An Australian woman was trying out her new metal detector on a local beach when she hit something made of very old metal. Once the sand had been dusted off, she made a quick call to the police, who promptly sent out the bomb squad. [Read more from Australia’s ABC Network]
  • Roger Daltrey, lead singer for The Who, is sending an unusual collection to auction. He and his wife, Heather, own a number of rare 19th-century French automata. Never heard of them? [Read more from BBC News]

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