Francis Bacon’s Vulture Painting May Fetch $70 Million in N.Y.
March 23 (Bloomberg) — A Francis Bacon painting depicting a man attacked by vultures may fetch a record $70 million when it is auctioned in New York in May, Sotheby’s said.
Bacon’s 1976 triptych, painted while he was living in Paris, is being sold by a European collector who has owned it for more than 30 years, the auction house said in a statement today. Sotheby’s set the current record for a work by Bacon in May 2007, when "Study from Innocent X, 1962," sold in New York for $52.7 million.
"This is undoubtedly the most important Bacon in private hands," Sotheby’s head of contemporary art, Tobias Meyer, said in the statement.
Sotheby’s and Christie’s International are gathering art for their next big impressionist and contemporary sales.
The triptych draws on the story of Orestes being plagued by the Furies for its images, said Sotheby’s.
The seller, who bought the work from Galerie Claude Bernard in Paris, has not been promised a guaranteed minimum price for the work, Sotheby’s said. [article]
DIY iPhone Stand
Posted: March 22nd, 2008
at 1:41pm by orangemenace
Categories: apple,green,cell phones,gear,diy
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Damian Marley - Welcome To Jamrock
The OBAMA IS WHITE Campaign
Today, here on MYNINJAPLEASE, I am officially launching the BARACK OBAMA IS WHITE campaign.
Now, I know this may startle some of you, but I have scientific evidence to support this claim: his moms is white.
Feel free to take a moment to let that sink in.
Now, I’ve gone ahead an applied the same logic that makes him ‘black’ to my figures, and come to the inevitable conclusion that Barack Obama is AT LEAST AS WHITE AS HE IS BLACK. I’ve therefore decided that he’s all white [since it seems that he has to be one or the other], and will be referred to as such from here on out.
Apparently, my ninjas, once you go black you can go back.
::Courtesy of your friendly neighborhood OrangeMenace::
Posted: March 21st, 2008
at 10:02am by orangemenace
Categories: myninjaplease,politricks,fo' real?,real life news
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How it is…
You know how when you’re at a party you sometimes just have to play a decent tune that everybody likes?AA That’s just how it is…
Posted: March 21st, 2008
at 9:07am by Black Ock
Categories: myninjaplease,music,boredom killer
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Project Choice : Ewing Kauffman
Posted: March 21st, 2008
at 6:00am by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: youtube,business,9th dan
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Rhyme to the Reason : Saul Williams
Thus, in the name of:
ROBESON, GOD’S SON, HURSTON, AHKENATON, HATHSHEPUT, BLACKFOOT, HELEN, LENNON, KHALO, KALI, THE THREE MARIAS, TARA, LILITHE, LOURDE, WHITMAN, BALDWIN, GINSBERG, KAUFMAN, LUMUMBA, GHANDI, GIBRAN, SHABAZZ, SIDDHARTHA, MEDUSA, GUEVARA, GUARDSIEFF, RAND, WRIGHT, BANNEKER, TUBMAN, HAMER, HOLIDAY, DAVIS, COLTRANE, MORRISON, JOPLIN, DUBOIS, CLARKE, SHAKESPEARE, RACHMNINOV, ELLINGTON, CARTER, GAYE, HATHOWAY, HENDRIX, KUTL, DICKERSON, RIPPERTON, MARY, ISIS, THERESA, PLATH, RUMI, FELLINI, MICHAUX, NOSTRADAMUS, NEFERTITI, LA ROCK, SHIVA, GANESHA, YEMAJA, OSHUN, OBATALA, OGUN, KENNEDY, KING, FOUR LITTLE GIRLS, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, KELLER, BIKO, PERONE, MARLEY, COSBY, SHAKUR, THOSE STILL AFLAMED, AND THE COUNTLESS UNNAMED
We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter.
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.
We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us.
We are determining the future at this very moment.
We now know that the heart is the philosophers’ stone
Our music is our alchemy
We stand as the manifested equivalent of 3 buckets of water and a hand full
of minerals, thus realizing that those very buckets turned upside down
supply the percussion factor of forever.
If you must count to keep the beat then count.
Find you mantra and awaken your subconscious.
Curve you circles counterclockwise
Use your cipher to decipher, Coded Language, man made laws.
Climb waterfalls and trees, commune with nature, snakes and bees.
Let your children name themselves and claim themselves as the new day for
today we are determined to be the channelers of these changing frequencies
into songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama, photography, carpentry,
crafts, love, and love.
We enlist every instrument: Acoustic, electronic.
Every so-called race, gender, and sexual preference.
Every per-son as beings of sound to acknowledge their responsibility to
uplift the consciousness of the entire fucking World.
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers slain
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers slain
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