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In about two weeks time, one very lucky individual will end up with the winning bid on this splendid 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429, a car that underwent a multi-year refurbishment and seems to be in tip-top shape, at least visually. 73 photos
The story behind the Boss 429 is a very interesting one. It was built as a limited-edition Mustang Fastback for only one model year because Ford wanted to homologate its 7.0-liter V8 engine for NASCAR use. The Blue Oval allegedly sold just 859 Boss 429s through 1969, making this a very rare car.
Built on May 13, 1969, it features a Candy Apple Red exterior, which makes it quite rare. According to its Bring a Trailer ad, only 238 examples were ever offered in this color. Other exterior features include the chrome bumpers, C-pillar trim, pop-out quarter windows, color-keyed racing mirrors, front spoiler, hood scoop, fender decals, and a set of 15-inch Magnum 500 wheels with Goodyear Polyglas GT F
Carvalho Park opens the first exhibition of Paris-based artist Garance Vallée in the United States
Installation view.
BROOKLYN, NY
.-Carvalho Park announces the first exhibition of Paris-based artist, designer and architect, Garance Vallée, in the United States. Portrait de Famille, a solo exhibition, features a suite of paintings, drawings and sculptures of Vallées distinct and indelible language. Portrait de Famille, is on view at Carvalho Park in Brooklyn until March 20.
Vallées scenes are an invitation into her singular vision. Of an articulated Surrealist doctrine, these interior spaces are suspended between representation and non, volume and silhouette, tangibility and fiction, inquiry and play. These are inhabitable, contemplative spaces, filled with precise forms. At once environment and still life, Vallées scenes tilt towards abstraction as forms oscillate between two and three-dimensionality. Vallées objects tempt us to pluck them from the picture
Benita Raphan, visionary filmmaker, dies at the age of 58
Benita Raphan was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019.
by Julia Rock & Miriam Kuznets
NEW YORK, NY
.- Benita Raphan, visionary filmmaker, died in January 2021 at the age of 58. Her life s work about geniuses garnered multiple awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019.
Her visual portraits examined the eccentric and brilliant inner lives of iconic figures, including R. Buckminster Fuller, John Nash, and Helen Keller. Her most recent film, Up to Astonishment, explored the life and work of Emily Dickinson
As Benita told StudioDaily: I am interested in revisiting a life or a career from the very start, from the beginning; the basic concept as initial thought, as an impulse, as an ineffable compulsion, an intuition; to reframe and reinvent an action as simple as one pair of hands touching pencil to paper. Her films appeared on the Sundance Channel, HBO, PBS, and Channel Four Television in the UK, and th
Talk about your yard sale finds. A small porcelain bowl bought for $35 (€29) at a Connecticut yard sale turned out to be a rare, 15th-century Chinese artifact worth between $300,000 and $500,000 (€248,000 and €414,000) that is about to go up for auction at Sotheby s.
The white bowl adorned with cobalt blue paintings of flowers and other designs is about 16 centimetres in diameter. An antiques enthusiast came across the piece and thought it could be something special when browsing a yard sale in the New Haven area last year, according to Sotheby s.
The piece, one of only seven such bowls known to exist in the world, will be up for auction in New York on March 17 as part of Sotheby’s Auction of Important Chinese Art.