Updated 17th March 2021Credit: Courtesy Sotheby'sChinese bowl bought for $35 at a yard sale sold for over $700,000An exceptionally rare 15th-century Chinese antique that wound up at a yard sale has sold for $721,800 at auction by Sotheby's, exceeding its top estimated sale price of half a million dollars. Bought for just $35 near New Haven, Connecticut, last year, the small blue-and-white floral bowl is now worth nearly 29,000 times that price. It features motifs of lotus, peony, chrysanthemum and pomegranate blossoms, and was originally commissioned by China's imperial court during the...…Updated 17th March 2021Credit: Courtesy Sotheby'sChinese bowl bought for $35 at a yard sale sold for over $700,000An exceptionally rare 15th-century Chinese antique that wound up at a yard sale has sold for $721,800 at auction by Sotheby's, exceeding its top estimated sale price of half a million dollars. Bought for just $35 near New Haven, Connecticut, last year, the small blue-and-white floral bowl is now worth nearly 29,000 times that price. It features motifs of lotus, peony, chrysanthemum and pomegranate blossoms, and was originally commissioned by China's imperial court during the...WW…

Published 7th April 2021Credit: Annie Liebovitz/VoguePoet Amanda Gorman featured on the cover of VoguePoet Amanda Gorman has another accolade to her name: She's the first poet to be featured on a cover for Vogue. The 23-year-old Harvard graduate and youth poet laureate was photographed by Annie Leibovitz for the May issue. For the cover, she wore a Louis Vuitton blanket, styled as a dress, cinched with a wide and intricate gold belt. The garment's vibrant pattern is inspired by African textiles and was designed by Virgil Abloh -- Louis Vuitton's ."The first poet ever on the cover of...…Published 7th April 2021Credit: Annie Liebovitz/VoguePoet Amanda Gorman featured on the cover of VoguePoet Amanda Gorman has another accolade to her name: She's the first poet to be featured on a cover for Vogue. The 23-year-old Harvard graduate and youth poet laureate was photographed by Annie Leibovitz for the May issue. For the cover, she wore a Louis Vuitton blanket, styled as a dress, cinched with a wide and intricate gold belt. The garment's vibrant pattern is inspired by African textiles and was designed by Virgil Abloh -- Louis Vuitton's ."The first poet ever on the cover of...WW…

Updated 24th March 2021Credit: From Christie'sA Banksy painting celebrating nurses as superheroes sells for a record-breaking $23MA painting by the artist Banksy honoring UK healthcare workers has set a new record for the artist, selling for £16.7 million ($23.1 million) at Christie's in London. "Game Changer," which the enigmatic street artist donated to the University Hospital Southampton (UHS) in May of 2020 during the first wave of the pandemic, depicts a young child playing with a toy nurse wearing a Red Cross emblem, a cape and face mask. In a nearby basket, figurines of Batman and...…Updated 24th March 2021Credit: From Christie'sA Banksy painting celebrating nurses as superheroes sells for a record-breaking $23MA painting by the artist Banksy honoring UK healthcare workers has set a new record for the artist, selling for £16.7 million ($23.1 million) at Christie's in London. "Game Changer," which the enigmatic street artist donated to the University Hospital Southampton (UHS) in May of 2020 during the first wave of the pandemic, depicts a young child playing with a toy nurse wearing a Red Cross emblem, a cape and face mask. In a nearby basket, figurines of Batman and...WW…

Updated 4th January 2021Credit: Courtesy the artist and MACKA photographer secretly snapped strangers' text messages and turned them into artBefore social distancing, it was easy to catch a glimpse of someone's text messages while waiting on a crowded subway platform or standing in line; allowing your eyes to linger a second longer than you should. Photographer Jeff Mermelstein has used this common impulse to create a series of photos, surreptitiously taken over the shoulders of strangers.Now featured in a new book titled "#nyc," after the hashtag Mermelstein used on his Instagram posts of...…Updated 4th January 2021Credit: Courtesy the artist and MACKA photographer secretly snapped strangers' text messages and turned them into artBefore social distancing, it was easy to catch a glimpse of someone's text messages while waiting on a crowded subway platform or standing in line; allowing your eyes to linger a second longer than you should. Photographer Jeff Mermelstein has used this common impulse to create a series of photos, surreptitiously taken over the shoulders of strangers.Now featured in a new book titled "#nyc," after the hashtag Mermelstein used on his Instagram posts of...WW…