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Google-izing the Venice Art Walk & Auctions

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying Google...It's everywhere. And in late 2010, Google set up camp in Frank Gehry's cherished "binoculars" building in Venice Beach amidst the marijuana clinics, fire-eaters, and snake charmers. Last year, Googl ... More >>

Michael Jackson's Clothes Will Hang Next to Lady Gaga's Meat Dress and Lobster Hat

The King of Pop's personal items have found a new home thanks to the Queen-of-Pop-in-Waiting (at least until Madonna sends a cease-and-desist), Lady Gaga. Last Sunday, Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills raised more than $5 million (with some of the proceeds benefiting charity) during its auction of ... More >>

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Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Photos in a Red Line Metro Station

This week's list includes a feisty auctioneer, art in a Metro station and a real-life Romeo and Juliet. 5. The last auction Robert Berman has been running Santa Monica Auctions for going on three decades and has had the C2 building at Bergamot Station for nineteen years. At the end of the month, th ... More >>

What Happened to Banksy's Buyers? Some of His Famous Works Flopped at L.A. Auction Last Night

Graffiti artist Banksy suffered an embarrassing evening Monday as a number of his greatest works failed to sell at a prestigious Los Angeles auction house. While his aerosol-powered contemporaries enjoyed strong sales at British auctioneers Bonham's on Sunset Blvd, Banksy's spray-painted rats receiv ... More >>

Butch Cassidy's Famous 'Amnesty Colt' Handgun Gets Auctioned This Sunday

By Jenny Lower Back in October 1899, things were looking a little thin for Robert LeRoy Parker, a.k.a. Butch Cassidy. It was only a few months before a brand-new century. After years of cattle rustling, horse thieving, train hijacking, and bank robbing with his gang, the Wild Bunch, the bandit life ... More >>

It Takes a Village (to Pay for Art School)

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Angelyne to Auction Off 'Celebrity' Memorabilia

Angelyne is the original zero threat, a star in her own mind without any discernible talent besides self-promotion. As such she paved the way for legions of self-styled stars -- Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian -- who have made a living off pure fame. It's not clear if Angelyne, whose heyday was in th ... More >>

Santa Monica Auctions Says Goodbye, as Bergamot Station's C Building Will Be Demolished for Expo Line

Johnny Cash's lyric "I hear the train a comin'" best captures the mood at the Santa Monica Auctions farewell event, held this past weekend, June 9 and 10. Due to the planned extension of the MTA's Expo Line, the entire C Building at Bergamot Station -- home to Track 16, The Robert Berman Gallery and ... More >>

Ronald Reagan's Blood Coming Back Home to Southern California

Reagan Blood is destined to become the name of a hipster electronic act headed for next year's Coachella. It is not, however, something that is going to be sold this week at auction. The British auction house that had put a vial of what it said was genuine blood from the 40th president up for bidd ... More >>

Storage Wars' Dan and Laura Dotson on the Secrets to Auctioning Off Trash

Creatives is a new recurring column about creative people in L.A. following their passions. If one man's trash is another man's treasure, then Dan and Laura Dotson are the guides who bring it all together. The married team of licensed auctioneers owns American Auctioneers in Riverside. Dan Dotson ... More >>

L.A. Riots: "It felt like I had been stabbed in the heart"

Read L.A. Weekly cover story about the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, featuring more personal stories from that turbulent time. On the evening of April 29, 1992, Barry Abell got a call at home from one of his employees, telling him people with a truck were banging on the front door of the family business: ... More >>

Rudy Kurniawan, Renowned, Wealthy Wine Collector, Sold Fake Vino, Schemed to Borrow Millions, Feds Say

If you think wine snobs are full if it, the story of Rudy Kurniawan might prove you right. The 35-year-old from Arcadia was arrested this week after federal authorities accused him of selling what is essentially expensive, counterfeit wine that would have been worth $1.3 million had it been real. ... More >>

Whitney Houston Auction Will Put Vest From 'The Bodyguard,' Other Items up Sale: Free Exhibition in Beverly Hills

Warner Bros.​Prized items once owned by Whitney Houston will be offered for sale at auction in Beverly Hills next month. But even if you can't afford the clothing expected to sell for between $400 and $2,000, you can take a look. Julien's Auctions will put the fashion on public display in the ... More >>

Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 5 Iconic Works of California Design on Sale Sunday

Courtesy of Los Angeles Modern AuctionsRichard Neutra's VDL House in Silver Lake, photographed by Julius Shulman in 1966. A print of this image, and some of the furniture photographed, are up for auction this weekend. Life in sepia remains unavailable.​In the material world, the past is never ... More >>

104-Year-Old Cookie Sells at Auction

A 104-year-old cookie from explorer Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition was sold today for £1,250 (about $1949) at an auction at Christie's in London. The cookie, made specifically for the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909), is a Huntley & Palmers biscuit that measures 3 inches (7.7 cm.) in diamet ... More >>

Marilyn Monroe's Iconic Upskirt Dress to be Sold at Auction in Beverly Hills

The subway dress.​You could probably argue that it's the dress that started modern fetishism (although Hitler and J. Edgar Hoover might have had something to say about that). At the least, it popularized the "upskirt." Yes, Marilyn Monroe's up-the-air-number from The Seven Year Itch is being ... More >>

Patron Saint of STDs: The 600-Year-Old Severed Head of St. Vitalis of Assisi Reportedly Comes Home to Los Angeles

Irish TimesAssisi.​Rich people in L.A. collect lots of things -- rap sheets, porn stars, nannies and six-figure cars. But severed, 600-year-old heads? It appears so. But this isn't just any head, but the reputed noggin of St. Vitalis of Assisi, the patron saint against STDs. Someone in L.A. ... More >>

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Wanna Buy Slash's Corvette, Top Hats -- Dinosaurs?

LA Weekly​Billboard reports that Guns N Roses (and Velvet Revolver, Snakepit, etc.) Slash will be holding a garage sale of unwanted stuff that has accumulated in his house. Now, him being Slash, this means the garage sale is run by a big-time Beverly Hills auction house and that if you wanna g ... More >>

Gatsby and an $18,000 Guinea Pig Picture: Bonhams & Butterfields Book Auction

​ Pssst...wanna buy an expensive book? How about a guinea pig painting? Bonhams & Butterfields is auctioning off some fine books and manuscripts this Sunday (9 a.m.). They've got a Beatrix Potter original watercolor of a super-cute guinea pig grooming himself. How much will this super-cutene ... More >>

Michael Jackson Glove Goes For $330,000 At Beverly Hills Auction; Johnny Cash Middle-Finger Jumpsuit Reaps $50,000

Julien's AuctionsNow on display at the Ponte 16 resort in Hong Kong​It was a charged weekend at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills -- most of all, during the paddle war over one of Michael Jackson's most crowd-pleasing staples: the Swarovski-studded glove he wore throughout the "Bad" tour. Th ... More >>

Tribute Night: An Evening with Don "The Snake" Prudhomme

Johnny Cash's Guitar, Song Books, and San Quentin Jumpsuit Up for Auction

Johnny Cash's Guitar, Songbooks, and San Quentin Jumpsuit Up for Auction

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Sotheby's: Legendary Auction House and Local Greengrocer

analuciababy/FlickrA pink banana pumpkin​ Sotheby's usually concerns itself with selling famous paintings, rare books, and plush estates. Later this month, however, the fourth-largest auction house in the world will push the cream of a different crop: the sort farmers actually yank from the g ... More >>

Selling the Treasures of Book Soup's Late Owner

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Navajo Rug Auction

For Sale: £2 million Wine Cooler

Think Bartles & Jaymes meets Ozzy Osbourne. Or maybe Mikhail Prokhorov. This enormous silver wine cooler will be up for auction at Sotheby's in July, and is expected to sell for between £1.5 million and £2 million. The cooler was commissioned by the third Lord Raby in 1706, and was designed by Ph ... More >>

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Energizer Bunny To Be Auctioned Off In Beverly Hills

​Just in time for Easter weekend a Dallas auction house announced that one of four Energizer Bunnies featured prominently in the battery-maker's commercials will go up for sale in Beverly Hills. This particular Mr. Bunny is expected to fetch at least $20,000 at the Signature Entertainment Auc ... More >>

LACMA Selling Select Works Even As It Buys Others

​Even as it has been buying works of art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has been selling paintings from its permanent collection as it wraps up a series of moves museum director Michael Govan describes as a clarifying process. The New York Times on Thursday reported that a number of LA ... More >>

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Sarah Palin Mannequin Ebay Auction: Inauguration Shenanigans Begin Early

The Obama Inauguration Day shenanigans are beginning early with Mito Aviles and ChadMichael Morrisette's Ebay auction of their infamous Sarah Palin mannequin. They strung her up last Halloween, much to the dismay/delight of their West Hollywood neighborhood. (For the backstory, go here.) The auctio ... More >>

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Fabulous Fake Wine

Very pricey bottles of faux wine are pouring in from France and Europe

Must See Art

“Last Resort” by Mark Mann at Taylor De Cordoba and auction time

Scoring the Art Auctions

Auction Heroes

Sale Agreed

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