Damien Hirst: Bad Boy Makes Good
Thanks to an unprecedented auction, British artist Damien Hirst is about to have the biggest payday in art history...
2008-09-05 13:34:08Damien Hirst Ascendant
Photographer Pal Hansen gets behind the scenes with the hot British artist as he organizes a groundbreaking auction of his work at Sotheby's...
2008-09-05 13:35:08Marubeni consortium wins Senoko auction
A consortium led by Japanese trading house Marubeni Corp won an auction to buy Singapore's Temasek-owned Senoko Power in a deal valued at $2.8bn...
2008-09-05 11:36:08The first guitar Jimi Hendrix set alight sells for 𦉸k at auction
London, September 5 ANI: The first guitar later rocker Jimi Hendrix set alight on stage fetched 280,000 pounds at an auction on Thursday night. The Fender Stratocaster was torched by Hendrix at the end of a London gig in 1967. The flames were extinguished by roadies, and the rock legend was treated for minor burns. Hendrix later became famous for burning guitars.His press officer had kept the original Fender guitar that was sold on Thursday.The guitar was found by the press officer's nephew last year.Music collector Daniel Boucher, 51, is said to have purchased the guitar. Boucher travelled all the way from Boylston in Massachusetts, US, to the auction in Shoreditch, East London. The guitar had been expected to fetch 500,000 pounds. "I thought I'd have to pay a little bit more for it. I'm going to play it - I hope some of it rubs off on me," British tabloid The Sun quoted Boucher as saying. Other items that were also put up for sale were The Beatles' first contract, which sold for 10,000 pounds less than its 250,000 pounds estimate. ANI
2008-09-05 06:00:15New eBay Site Strives For "World Of Good"
The online auction operator eBay is launching WorldofGood.com, a Web site to sell goods produced with social and environmental goals in mind. ...
2008-09-05 04:31:09Hendrix, Beatles, Elvis memorabilia sold
A guitar set alight onstage by Jimi Hendrix during a concert in London was sold at auction on Thursday for $497,557 to a collector from the United States....
2008-09-04 22:44:08Two Canada Wireless Partnerships Expected Soon
Insiders predict Globalive Communications will partner with Quebecor to share wireless spectrum that the two companies acquired in the federal government's auction....
2008-09-04 19:44:05Is this cricket, or cattle fair
For all those complaints about taxing, unimaginatively planned tour schedules season after season you would have thought our suffering cricketers with tired minds and bodies needed a break for rest an...
2008-09-04 13:31:07Community calendar
LESSONS OF LOVE FUNDRAISER for Jo Kapololu, former proprietor of Java Java Cafe and Lizard Loft, who is fighting cancer, 6 to 10 p.m. at Coffee Talk in Kaimuki; pupu by chef Wayne Hirabayashi, wine an...
2008-09-04 11:52:08Man who tried to auction Czech president's hip joint pardoned
Czech President Vaclav Klaus has pardoned a man who tried to sell inan online auction a hip joint he claimed was the president's....
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