News and updates from around the arts and auction community:

• If you frequented the legendary Whisky a Go Go nightclub during the 1980s or ’90s, you may remember the pink neon sign that glowed above the venue on LA’s Sunset Strip. The iconic Whisky sign recently appeared at auction, with several rock stars reportedly among the bidders who pursued it. [Read more from the Associated Press/Billboard]

• A passport issued to Carrie Fisher in 1983 has been relisted on eBay after being pulled for a possible personality rights violation. It’s been given the all-clear, now, and is attracting tons of bids. [Read more from Business Insider]
  

• On Valentine’s Day, a New York auction house will sell a rare photo of Edgar Allan Poe taken only three weeks before his mysterious death in 1849. Poe was only 40 when he left for the land of “Never more,” and some say his haggard appearance in the picture foretold what was to come. [Read more from the Baltimore Sun]

• The world’s largest antique and vintage motorcycle auction is taking place right now in Las Vegas. Running through and including Sunday, the mega-auction includes six bikes that were once owned by screen legend Steve McQueen. [Read more from the Los Angeles Times]

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