Tag: Sotheby’s
Today at 10am, collectors and hoarders alike will get the chance to bid on New York City memorabilia as upscale auction house Sotheby’s partners with lowbrow online marketplace eBay for its first ever sale on the website. The items include art, signs, and even a 9-foot tall Statue of Liberty that is estimated to fetch […]
Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery is hosting an exhibition called “Beyond the Paper Screen: An Exhibition of Japanese Erotic Prints from the Uragami Collection” which will feature 60 sexual woodblock prints, or “shunga” (“spring pictures.”) The woodblock prints feature scenes such as a naked fisherman’s wife being intimate with an octopus. Also, aristocratic groupsex. Shunga have a long tradition […]
By the tender age of 20, NYC art scene up-and-comer Jean-Michel Basquiat was well aware that it’s who you know — not silly things like experience, education, or fancy resume templates — that counts. With references like Andy Warhol, Blondie, Tennessee Williams and Dick Tracy (huh?), we can only imagine young SAMO’s amusement as he […]
Sotheby’s Inc. posted a Craigslist ad for “a Skilled and dedicated Administrative Assistant” last night and failed. Indeed they do need an administrative assistant, because this one doesn’t know how to ctrl+c ctrl +v. The post contains an entire gchat conversation of Employee 1 attempting to instruct Employee 2 on how to copy and paste text into a document. […]
