It Seems No One Wants Michael Jordan’s Custom 1996 Mercedes-Benz S600 Lorinser 15 Feb 2021, 6:52 UTC ·
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Celebrity provenance can add thousands of dollars to the value of an otherwise common, not at all extraordinary item, whether it’s a piece of clothing or a pair of shoes, a car, a house, or a piece of napkin. This doesn’t seem to work here. 21 photos
A most interesting piece of automotive history and celebrity memorabilia is back in the spotlight, a little over six months after first breaking cover: a car owned by basketball legend and ultimate GOAT Michael Jordan back in the ‘90s. It’s the 1996 Mercedes-Benz S600 Coupe customized by Lorinser that he and then-wife Juanita bought in 1995 and held on to until 2003.
Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art announces digital publication The Strangeness of Beauty
The Metamorphosis, 2020. Oil and mixed media on canvas, 46 x 55 x 10 cm.
LONDON
.- Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is presenting The Strangeness of Beauty, an online project examining the notion of aesthetics in contemporary art. Curated by Ziba Ardalan, Founder, Artistic and Executive Director of Parasol unit, the project takes place on our website and each week we present a new issue of contributions from invited artists, writers, curators and art professionals responding to questions surrounding the phenomena of beauty and strangeness within contemporary art practice.
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft opens an exhibition of sculptures by Anna Mayer
Anna Mayer, detail of Upside-Down Mourning Ware Vessel with Mourning Ware Coral and Funeral Fringe, 2019. Inherited crushed dinnerware embedded in Obsidian clay, cut-up discarded inner tube. 32 x 16 x 21 inches. Photo by Esteban Pulido.
HOUSTON, TX
.- This spring, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft presents Forms of Inheritance: The Work of Anna Mayer, an exhibition of ceramic and bronze sculptures that explores humanitys reckoning with mortality and demonstrates the fragility and fierceness of the natural world.
Anna Mayers social and sculptural practice explores the impact of humanity throughout geologic time, with a focus on the temporal relationship between humans and the land beyond an individuals life span. Her work in the exhibition reflects deeply upon the realities of death and decay. Drawing upon a language of mourning and burial practices, she uses materials like raw cl
Out of sight, out of mind. This seems to have been the case with a considerably rare MG MGA Roadster discovered in a barn, where it’d spent the past 20 years covered in all types of garbage.