8.1.11

EGYPTIAN GOVENMENT MAKES THREATS OVER NEW YORK OBELISK


THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL CHARGED WITH PROTECTING HIS COUNTRY'S ANCIENT MONUMENTS IS THREATENING TO TAKE BACK AN ICONIC OBELISK IN CENTRAL PARK UNLESS NEW YORK CITY TAKES STEPS TO RESTORE IT. THE STONE OBELISK 'HAS BEEN SEVERELY WEATHERED OVER THE PAST CENTURY' WITH NO EFFORT MADE TO CONSERVE IT, ZAHI HAWASS, SECRETARY GENERAL FOR EGYPT'S SUPREME COUNCIL OF ANTIQUITIES, WROTE IN A LETTER THIS WEEK TO NEW YORK MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG. THE OBELISK, WHICH COMMEMORATES KING THUTMOSE III, HAS STOOD BEHIND THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART SINCE 1881. AT 71 FEET TALL, IT IS KNOWN AS 'CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE' AND IS ONE OF A PAIR, THE OTHER ONE IS IN LONDON. THE OBELISK DATES BACK ROUGHLY 3,500 YEARS AND WAS GIVEN TO THE UNITED STATES IN THE 19th CENTURY BY AN OFFICIAL IN EGYPT. 'I HAVE A DUTY TO PROTECT ALL EGYPTIAN MONUMENTS WHETHER THEY ARE INSIDE OR OUTSIDE OF EGYPT', HAWASS WROTE IN A LETTER. 'IF THE CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY AND THE CITY OF NEW YORK CANNOT PROPERLY CARE FOR THIS OBELISK, I WILL TAKE THE NECESSARY STEPS TO BRING THIS PRECIOUS ARTIFACT HOME AND SAVE IT FROM RUIN', HE WROTE. THE HIEROGLYPHICS HAVE COMPLETELY WORN AWAY IN PLACES, HE SAID. JONATHAN KUHN, DIRECTOR OF ART AND ANTIQUITIES FOR NEW YORK'S PARKS DEPARTMENT, TOLD LOCAL NEWS WEBSITE DNAinfo THAT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF 'ANY SIGNIFICANT ONGOING EROSION.' A METROPOLITAN MUSEUM STUDY IN THE 1980s FOUND THE GRANITE WAS 'LARGELY INERT' AND THAT THE DAMAGE TO THE INSCRIPTIONS AND THE BASE OF THE MONUMENT OCCURRED IN THE DISTANT PAST, KUHN SAID. 'WE HAVE BEEN WORKING IN RECENT YEARS WITH THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM AND THE CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY TO FURTHER ANALYZE THE CONDITION OF THE OBELISK AND MONITOR ITS CONDITION', KUHN TOLD DNAinfo. REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MAYOR DECLINED TO COMMENT.

7.1.11

CHRISTIE'S TO SELL DENIS HOPPER COLLECTION NEXT WEEK


DENIS HOPPER SHOT TWO BULLET HOLES THROUGH AN ANDY WARHOL PORTRAIT OF MAO ZEDONG, BUT INSTEAD OF EARNING THE WRATH OF THE ARTIST, WARHOL CALLED THE 'EASY RIDER' STAR A COLLABORATOR. WARHOL'S 'MAO' IS AMONG 300 WORKS OF FINE ART AND MEMORABILIA OWNED BY THE LATE ACTOR-DIRECTOR OF THE 1969 COUNTERCULTURE FILM UP FOR AUCTION AT CHRISTIE'S NEXT WEEK. THE 1972 COLOURED SCREEN-PRINT IS EXPECTED TO BRING $20,000 TO $30,000. MOST OF THE ITEMS ADORNED THE ACTOR'S VENICE BEACH, CALIFORNIA, HOME. HOPPER, WHO WAS TWICE NOMINATED FOR OSCARS AND EARNED A STAR LAST YEAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME, DIED OF PROSTATE CANCER AT HIS HOME IN MAY. HE WAS 74. HOPPER WAS ALREADY STRICKEN WITH CANCER WHEN HE ATTENDED THE CEREMONY FOR THE UNVEILING OF HIS COMMEMORATIVE STAR. THE FRAMED PLAQUE OF THE STAR THAT HE RECEIVED AS A MEMENTO OF THE EVENT IS BEING SOLD NEXT WEEK FOR AN ESTIMATED $1,000 TO $1,500. HOPPER BEGAN COLLECTING IN THE 1960s AFTER THE VENERABLE ACTOR, VINCENT PRICE, HIMSELF AN AVID COLLECTOR OF IMPRESSIONIST ART, TOLD HIM: 'YOU NEED TO COLLECT, THIS IS WHERE YOU NEED TO PUT YOUR MONEY', SAID CATHY ELKIES, CHRISTIE'S DIRECTOR OF ICONIC COLLECTIONS. 'THIS REALLY WAS HIS CALLING.' HOPPER, A PHOTOGRAPHER AND PAINTER HIMSELF, BECAME IMMERSED IN THE WEST COAST ARTIST SCENE AND POP ART MOVEMENT, BECOMING CLOSE FRIENDS WITH WARHOL, ROY LICHTENSTEIN AND MANY OTHER ARTISTS HE COLLECTED. WHILE ECLECTIC, 'THERE IS SOME DEPTH OF CERTAIN ARTISTS' AMONG THE FINE ART WORKS IN THE COLLECTION, INCLUDING THOSE OF WALLACE BERMAN, BRUCE CONNER AND GEORGE HERMS. CONNER'S 'PICNIC ON THE GRASS' AND WARHOL'S 'MAO' ARE THE HIGHEST PRICED ITEMS IN THE SALE. 'PICNIC ON THE GRASS' ALSO IS EXPECTED TO BRING BETWEEN $20,000 TO $30,000. THE SHOOTING INCIDENT INVOLVING 'MAO' OCCURRED SOMETIME IN THE EARLY 1970s AT HOPPER'S LOS ANGELES HOME, SAID ALEX HITZ, A FAMILY FRIEND AND A TRUSTEE OF THE ESTATE. 'ONE NIGHT IN THE SHADOWS, DENNIS, OUT OF THE CORNER OF HIS EYE, SAW THE MAO AND HE WAS SO SPOOKED BY IT THAT HE GOT UP AND SHOT AT IT, TWICE, PUTTING TWO BULLET HOLES IN IT', HITZ TOLD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IN A TELEPHONE INTERVIEW FROM LOS ANGELES. 'ANDY SAW IT, LOVED IT AND ANNOTATED THOSE HOLES' LABELING THEM 'WARNING SHOT' AND 'BULLET HOLE.' HOPPER'S FOUR CHILDREN ARE SELLING THE COLLECTION BECAUSE 'IT WAS DENNIS' WISH TO SELL EVERYTHING. ELKIES SAID HOPPER'S VENICE BEACH HOUSE WAS FILLED 'LITERALLY FROM FLOOR TO CEILING WITH ART, AND REALISTICALLY THEY (THE CHILDREN) COULDN'T TAKE THAT ON.' CHRISTIE'S OFFERED 30 WORKS FROM THE HOPPER COLLECTION IN NOVEMBER WHEN A 1987 JEAN-MICHAEL BASQUIAT MIXED MEDIA WORK, 'UNTITLED', SOLD FOR $5.8 MILLION.

ROLLS-ROYCE APPARITION


THERE IS THE ICONIC ROLLS-ROYCE PHANTOM AND THE CLASSIC ROLLS-ROYCE GHOST, NOW THERE IS THE STUNNING ROLLS-ROYCE APPARITION. UNLIKE ITS PRODUCTION COUNTERPARTS, THE APPARITION IS PURELY A DESIGN STUDY. IT'S THE BRAINCHILD OF DESIGNER JEREMY WESTERLUND, WHO DESIGNED IT AS AN INDEPENDENT PROJECT WHILE STUDYING AT THE ART CENTER. THE IDEA BLENDS CLASSIC DESIGN ELEMENTS WITH FUTURISTIC ONES, WITH MAHOGANY WHEEL INSERTS AND A SHAPE THAT PLACES THE CHAUFFEUR OUT IN THE OPEN LIKE IN VINTAGE MOTOR CARRIAGES, WITH THE OCCUPANTS CODDLED INSIDE. ALTHOUGH JUST A DESIGN FOR THE TIME BEING, THE MODEL ITSELF IS NEARLY SIX FEET LONG, AND IN REALITY WOULD MEASURE OVER 23 FEET LONG, OR FOUR FEET LONGER THAN THE PHANTOM SALOON.

6.1.11

NORMAN ROCKWELL MURAL RETURNED TO ITS ORIGINAL HOME


A PHOTOGRAPHIC MURAL BY ARTIST NORMAN ROCKWELL HAS BEEN RETURNED TO ITS FORMER HOME IN VERMONT'S CAPITAL, DRAWING A CLOSE TO A YEARLONG DISPUTE BETWEEN STATE OFFICIALS AND A MUSEUM WHERE IT HUNG FOR 23 YEARS. THE BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPH, 'MAPLE SUGARING IN VERMONT', DEPICTS A SUGAR HOUSE WITH SMOKE RISING FROM ITS CHIMNEY AS MEN, INCLUDING ROCKWELL HIMSELF, TEND SAP BUCKETS HANGING ON MAPLE TREES OUTSIDE. MADE IN 1947, THE 5x7 FOOT MURAL WAS COMMISSIONED BY ROCKWELL FRIEND COL HENRY FAIRFAX AYRES, WHO LENT IT TO THE STATE FOR DISPLAY. THE FAMED ILLUSTRATOR, WHOSE PAINTINGS OF FARM SCENES, APPLE CHEEKED CHILDREN AND SLICES OF AMERICANA APPEARED FOR DECADES IN THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, DIED IN 1978. FOR ABOUT 14 YEARS, HE LIVES IN VERMONT, WHERE HE STRUCK UP A FRIENDSHIP WITH AYRES, A WEST POINT GRAD AND WAR VETERAN WHO WAS CHAIRMAN OF THE VERMONT SUGAR MAKERS ASSOCIATION AND IS WIDELY CREDITED WITH IMPROVING MAPLE SUGARING METHODS. THE MURAL HUNG IN THE LOBBY OF THE STATE AGENCY OF AGRICULTURE BUILDING IN MONTPELIER FOR YEARS. IN 1987, THE STATE LENT IT TO THE NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM OF VERMONT BECAUSE OF BUILDING RENOVATION HAD DISPLACED IT. AT THE RUTLAND MUSEUM, IT CAME TO ANCHOR AN EXHIBIT POPULAR WITH FOLIAGE-VIEWING VISITORS AND ROCKWELL BUFFS. THE STATE NEVER SOUGHT TO RECLAIM IT. BUT LAST YEAR, AGRICULTURE SECRETARY ROGER ALLBEE, WHO KNEW OF THE LOAN FROM TWIN BROTHER RONALD, WHO HELD THE AGRICULTURE SECRETARY JOB BEFORE HIM, BEGAN MAKING INQUIRIES AT THE MUSEUM. 'THEY SAY 'NE WE OWN IT', SAID ALLBEE, STANDING IN FRONT OF THE MURAL MONDAY. THE MUSEUM'S CURATOR, RACHEL LYNES-BELL, SAYS IT WASN'T AS SIMPLE AS THAT. 'IT'S NOT LIKE WE'VE HAD IT FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS. WE'VE HAD IT FOR 23 YEARS. YOU'D WALK INTO THE MUSEUM AND BOOM, IT WAS WHAT YOU SAW, ALONG WITH A WHITE-UP ABOUT THE MURAL AND THE REASONS BEHIND IT AND THE MAN IT WAS GIFTED TO', SHE SAID. 'WE HAD TO DIG AND FIND EVERY ARCHIVE WE COULD, BECAUSE WE HAD IT SO LONG. HAVING SOMETHING THAT'S THE CENTER-POINT OF A COLLECTION FOR 23 YEARS, IT'S SOMETHING THAT HAS TO BE RESEARCHED. THAT WAS THE ONLY RELUCTANCE WE HAD. WE THOUGH IT WAS A TRAGEDY BECAUSE WE'VE GROWN SUCH TIES TO IT', SHE ADDED. AT FIRST, THE MUSEUM CHALLENGED THE STATE TO PROVE OWNERSHIP. THE STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE WAS ENLISTED, DOING RESEARCH ON THE MURAL'S PROVENANCE AND CONTACTING AYRES' GRANDSON, WHO WANTED IT RETURNED TO THE STATE AND OFFERED TO SUE THE MUSEUM TO RECLAIM IT IF ALL ELSE FAILED. LAST WEEK, IT WAS HUNG IN A SECOND-FLOOR HALLWAY OF THE AGENCY OF AGRICULTURE'S OFFICE BUILDING, ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE STATE HOUSE. 'THE MURAL IS LOVELY AND AN AUTHENTIC REPRESENTATION OF SUGARING IN VERMONT, OUR SIGNATURE PRODUCT', ALLBEE SAID. HE'S THRILLED TO HAVE IT BACK IN THE CAPITAL. THE MUSEUM'S CURATOR ISN'T. 'IT'LL BE SEEN MORE AT THE ROCKWELL MUSEUM THAN IT WILL BE OVER AT THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. BUT IT'S NOT MY PLACE TO SAY EITHER', SHE SAID.

GUERLAIN ABEILLE IMPERIALE


WORLD RENOWNED FRENCH BEAUTY AND FRAGRANCE HOUSE GUERLAIN HAS RECENTLY RELEASED A NEW FRAGRANCE FOCUSING ON THE LIGHTNESS OF SENSUAL FLOWERS. THE ABEILLE IMPERIALE IS BUILT AROUND FRESH RARE ACACIA NOTES AND USES UNIQUE GREEN JASMINE AND ALMONDY NOTES SURROUNDED BY THE MUSKINESS ESTABLISHED IN THE CURRENT INNOVATIONS OF THE HOUSE. THE FRAGRANCE IS EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE FROM GUERLAIN.

5.1.11

CANADIAN MINT ISSUES FIRST COLLECTOR COIN FOR 2011


THE ROYAL CANADIAN MINT HAS NOW ANNOUNCED ITS FIRST COLLECTOR COIN OF THE NEW YEAR, THE 2011 SILVER DOLLAR, WHICH COMMEMORATES THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF PARKS CANADA. THE NEW SILVER DOLLAR HAS BEEN MADE AVAILABLE IN A PROOF AND BRILLIANT UNCIRCULATED FINISH, AND IN A SELECT GOLD-PLATED VERSION FOUND EXCLUSIVELY IN THE MINT'S 2011 PROOF SET. IAN E BENNETT, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN MINT, SAID THAT THE FIRST 2011 PROOF SILVER DOLLAR HONORS PARKS CANADA'S PRICELESS ROLE IN PRESERVING CANADA'S NATURAL WONDERS OVER THE LAST 100 YEARS. THE 2011 SILVER DOLLAR HAS BEEN DESIGNED BY QUEBEC ARTIST LUC NORMANDIN, AND IT SHOWS THE IMAGE OF A YOUNG CANADIAN HOLDING FOUR ENDANGERED ECOLOGICAL TREASURES IN HIS HANDS; A WHOOPING CRANE, THE SOUTHERN MAIDENHAIR FERN, A WESTERN FRINGED PRAIRIE ORCHID AND A KENTUCKY COFFEE TREE. LIMITED TO A MINTAGE OF 40,000, THE 2011 PROOF SILVER DOLLAR IS MADE OF STERLING LIVER AND RETAILS FOR $55.95 CDN.

HOSMER MORSE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART TO PRESENT TIFFANY EXHIBITION


THE LAST MAJOR ART WORKS FROM THE ESTATE OF AMERICAN ARTIST LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY WILL GO ON PERMANENT DISPLAY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FEBRUARY AT FLORIDA'S CHARLES HOSMER MORSE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART IN ORLANDO. A NEW 6,000 SQUARE FOOT GALLERY AT THE WINTER PARK MUSEUM WILL BE OPENED ON 19.FEBRUARY, NEARLY 54 YEARS AFTER A FIRE DESTROYED LAURELTON HALL, THE TURN OF THE CENTURY NEW YORK HOME OF TIFFANY, WHO WAS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS LEADED GLASS WORKS. THE GALLERY WILL HOUSE THE SURVIVING COMPONENTS OF THE ESTATE, INCLUDING THE REASSEMBLED DAFFODIL TERRACE, AN OUTDOOR ROOM MARKED BY EIGHT 11 FOOT MARBLE COLUMNS TOPPED WITH WREATHS OF GLASS FLOWERS AND COVERED BY A CEDAR, TILE AND GLASS CEILING. OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS, THE MUSEUM HAS BEEN DEVELOPING THE NEW GALLERY DESIGNED TO DISPLAY TIFFANY'S REMAINING LARGE-SCALE WORKS IN A MANNER THAT SUGGESTS THEIR PLACEMENT AT HIS ESTATE, AS WELL AS HIS LOVE OF NATURAL BEAUTY AND HIS STYLE OF BLURRING THE LINE BETWEEN INDOORS AND OUTDOORS. THE GALLERY WILL ALSO INCLUDE 250 OBJECTS FROM OR RELATED TO THE ESTATE. THE DAFFODIL TERRACE WILL BE DISPLAYED IN A GLASSED-IN ALCOVE TO RECREATE THE FEEL OF TEH ORIGINAL OUTDOOR SPACE. AS IT DID AT LAURELTON HALL, THE TERRACE FLOWS DIRECTLY INTO A RECREATION OF THE ESTATE'S DINING ROOM, WHICH INCLUDES A NEARLY 14 FOOT HIGH MOSAIC MANTELPIECE, 25 FOOT LONG ORIENTAL CARPET AND A SUITE OF SIX LEADED-GLASS WISTERIA TRANSOMS. THE ADJOINING LIVING ROOM FEATURES FOUR LEADED-GLASS PANELS DEPICTING THE FOUR SEASONS, WHICH WON A GOLD MEDAL AT THE EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE IN PARIS IN 1990, AND FIVE TURTLEBACK-GLASS HANGING LAMPS. HIGH F MCKEAN, AN ARTIST WHO HAD BEEN A FELLOW IN RESIDENCE AT THE ESTATE, RESCUED THE WORKS FROM THE WRECKAGE OF THE 1957 FIRE ALONG WITH HIS WIFE JEANNETTE, WHO FOUNDED THE FLORIDA MUSEUM NAMED FOR HER GRANDFATHER, CHARLES HOSMER MORSE. THE MCKEANS SPENT FOUR DECADES TRACKING DOWN AND BUYING MISSING PIECES THAT HAD BEEN SOLD, AUCTIONED OR GIVEN AWAY. THE TERRACE AND MANY OF THE OBJECTS WERE WAREHOUSE UNTIL 2006 WHEN THE MORSE MUSEUM COLLABORATED WITH THE NEW YORK METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART TO UNPACK AND RESTORE THE COLLECTION AND CREATE A SIX MONTH TEMPORARY EXHIBIT THAT HAD BEEN SEEN BY ABOUT 350,000 PEOPLE AT THE MET. THE MORSE MUSEUM ALSO HOUSES THE TIFFANY CHAPEL, A BYZANTINE-INSPIRED INTERIOR CREATED FOR THE 1893 WORLD'S COLOMBIAN EXPOSITION IN CHICAGO, AND AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF TIFFANY POTTERY, JEWELRY, ECCLESIASTICAL WORKS AND LEAD-LINE DRAWINGS WHICH SERVED AS PATTERNS FOR HIS GLASS WORKS.

STAN LEE GIVEN STAR ON WALK OF FAME


THERE'S A NEW SUPERHERO ON HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD. COMIC BOOK LEGEND STAN LEE, CREATOR OR CO-CREATOR OF SUCH MARVEL COMICS CHARACTERS AS SPIDER-MAN, THE INCREDIBLE HULK, X-MEN, THE FANTASTIC FOUR AND IRON MAN, HAS NOW BEEN ENSHRINED IN CONCRETE. THE 88 YEAR OLD LEE UNVEILED HIS WALK OF FAME SIDEWALK STAR ON TUESDAY IN FRONT OF THE LIVE NATION BUILDING ON HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD. IT'S THE 2,428th STAR DEDICATED ON THE FAMOUS AVENUE OF DREAMS. LEE IS FOUNDER, CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF OFFICER OF POW! ENTERTAINMENT. MORE THAN 2 MILLION OF LEE'S COMIC BOOKS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN 75 NATIONS AND IN 25 LANGUAGES. HIS CHARACTERS HAVE BEN FEATURED IN 24 ANIMATED TELEVISION SERIES AND SEVERAL LIVE ACTION FILMS. IN COLLABORATION WITH SEVERAL ARTISTS, MOST NOTABLY JACK KIRBY AND STEVE DITKO, HE CO-CREATED SPIDER-MAN, THE FANTASTIC FOUR, THE X-MEN, THE AVENGERS, IRON MAN, THE HULK, THOR, DAREDEVIL, DOCTOR STRANGE AND MANY OTHER FICTIONAL CHARACTERS. INTRODUCING COMPLEX, NATURALISTIC CHARACTERS AND A THOROUGHLY SHARED UNIVERSE INTO SUPERHERO COMIC BOOKS. IN ADDITION, HE HEADED THE FIRST MAJOR SUCCESSFUL CHALLENGE TO THE INDUSTRY'S CENSORSHIP ORGANIZATION, THE COMICS CODE AUTHORITY, AND FORCED IT TO REFORM ITS POLICIES. LEE SUBSEQUENTLY LED THE EXPANSION OF MARVEL COMICS FROM A SMALL DIVISION OF A PUBLISHING HOUSE TO A LARGE MULTIMEDIA CORPORATION. HE WAS INDUCTED INTO THE COMIC BOOK INDUSTRY'S WILL EISNER COMIC BOOK HALL OF FAME IN 1994 AND THE JACK KIRBY HALL OF FAME IN 1995.

4.1.11

JOHN LENNON'S WHITE SUIT SELLS AT AUCTION FOR $46,000


THE WHITE TWO-PIECE SUIT JOHN LENNON WORE ON THE COVER OF THE BEATLES' ABBEY ROAD ALBUM HAS BEEN SOLD AT AUCTION IN CONNECTICUT FOR $46,000. THE SUIT AND OTHER BEATLES MEMORABILIA WERE SOLD SATURDAY AT THE BRASWELL GALLERIES' ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S DAY AUCTION TO AN ONLINE BIDDER WHO WISHED TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS. OWNER KATHY BRASWELL TELLS THE CONNECTICUT POST THE HOLIDAY AUCTION IS THEIR BIGGEST EVENT OF THE YEAR. THE SUIT WAS CUSTOM MADE FOR LENNON BY FRENCH DESIGNER TED LAPIDUS. HANK GIOIELLA OF DARIEN PAID $5,500 FOR A RUSTED GREEN 1972 CHRYSLER STATION WAGON LENNON AND YOKO ONO OWNED. THE ABBEY ROAD IMAGE IS ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC ALBUM COVERS OF ALL TIME AND THE FAMOUS SHOT FOR THE FINAL BEATLES ALBUM TOOK ON A LIFE OF IT'S OWN. FORTY YEARS AFTER FIRST BEING PUBLISHED, THE FAMILIAR IMAGE IS SO INDELIBLY IMPRINTED ON THE PUBLIC IMAGINATION IT SERVES AS THE CATALYST FOR THOUSANDS OF MULTI-GENERATIONAL BEATLES FANS TO MAKE THE PILGRIMAGE TO THE FAMED SPOT AND PAY HOMAGE.

GINUWINE BECOMES SPOKESMAN FOR ADULT CHOCOLATE MILK


SINGER GINUWINE HAS PUT ON A MILKMAN'S UNIFORM FOR HIS RECENT GIG AS THE NEW SPOKESMAN OF ADULT CHOCOLATE MILK, A 40% VERSION OF THE CHILDHOOD FAVORITE. THE NEW PRODUCT IS BEING SOLD AT COSTCO AND IS THE LATEST TWIST ON SWEET TREATS FOR ADULTS THAT INCLUDE THE INFAMOUS FOUR LOKO ENERGY SODA AND WHIPPED LIGHTENING WHIPPED CREAM. THE NEW YORK DAILY NEW REPORTS THAT ADULT CHOCOLATE MILK WAS CREATED BY CALIFORNIA MOM TRACY REINHARDT AND COMBINES CHOCOLATE MILK WITH 40 PROOF VODKA. THE IDEA LED TO THE CREATION OF THE ADULT BEVERAGE COMPANY WHICH ALSO PLANS TO MAKE OTHER ALCOHOL-FILLED VERSIONS OF CHILDHOOD FAVORITES INCLUDING ADULT ORANGE CREAM, ADULT FRUIT PUNCH AND ADULT LIMEADE. THE PRODUCT HAS A SLOGAN 'RE-TASTE YOUR YOUTH AT 40 PROOF' AND COMES IN A MILK-BOTTLE INSPIRED GLASS BOTTLE WITH A SWING TOP. IT IS NOT REFRIGERATED AND SELLS FOR $23.99.

3.1.11

A HEDONIST'S GUIDE TO ART


HG2 ART IS A HANDBOOK THAT GIVES READERS AN INSIGHT INTO BOTH THE DARKER REACHES OF THE ART WORLD AND SOME OF ITS MORE ENCHANTING POCKETS. REVEALING INSIDER SECRETS, IT ANSWERS THE QUESTIONS EVERY WOULD-BE ART COLLECTOR WANTS TO KNOW. HH2 ART IS A SEMINAL COLLECTION OF ESSAYS THAT WILL NOT ONLY INSPIRE ANY BURGEONING COLLECTOR, BUT ANYONE WISHING TO TAP INTO THE ESOTERIC FORTRESS OF STRANGE THAT IS THE ART WORLD. GILBERT & GEORGE, SARAH LUCAS, WILL SELF, KIETH TYSON, SUE WEBSTER, MARTIN CREED, POLLY MORGAN, AND OTHER INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED ARTISTS, WRITERS, GALLERY OWNERS, ART COLLECTORS AND HANGERS ON, REVEAL THEIR HIDDEN LIVES, THE LIVES OF OTHERS, AND THE SLIGHTLY APPALLING SECRETS THAT ONLY A SELECT HANDFUL OF PEOPLE ARE AS YET A PARTY TO. LEARN HOW TO NAVIGATE THE BEST ART PARTIES, WHY YOU SHOULD BUY THE ART YOU HATE, WHERE THE INTERNATIONAL CURATING AND COLLECTING HOTSPOTS ARE, AND HOW TO BECOME A DEALER. A HEDONIST'S GUIDE TO ART COMPRISES 90+ ESSAYS, AND A FEW PIECES OF NEVER BEFORE SEEN, ORIGINAL ART, ESPECIALLY MADE FOR THE BOOK. SOME OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH OUT LOUD, SOME WILL MAKE YOU TURN A SHADE OF PUCE, WHILE OTHERS MIGHT JUST MAKE YOU CRY. WHATEVER THEIR POISON, THIS UNIQUE ANTHOLOGY WILL BRING A WRY SMILE TO ALL ART ENTHUSIASTS.

2.1.11

CARTIER PANTHERE BRACELET


CARTIER HAS RECENTLY CREATED A STUNNING NEW MASTERPIECE TO ADD TO THEIR ICONIC SIGNATURE PANTHERE JEWELRY COLLECTION. THE PANTHERE BRACELET IS MADE OF EXQUISITE PLATINUM AND IS SET WITH DIAMONDS, EMERALD EYES, BLUE SAPPHIRE SPOTS AND A UNIQUE BLACK ONYX NOSE. THE BRACELET IS A TRIBUTE TO DESTRUCTIVE SEDUCTION, OBSCURE BEAUTY, WILD CHARACTER AND IS EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE FROM CARTIER.