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Hot in the city: Townhouse next to Auckland motorway nudges $1m in first auction
16 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Patrick Gibbs and Elaine Chen own a central city apartment, but wanted to buy a home with some outside space so they can start a family. Photo / Hayden Woodward
Patrick Gibbs and Elaine Chen own a central city apartment, but wanted to buy a home with some outside space so they can start a family. Photo / Hayden Woodward
A new year hasn t taken the heat out of Auckland s property market, with a three-bedroom townhouse next to a busy motorway selling for almost $1 million in the first Saturday auction of 2021.
Updated on January 14, 2021 at 5:58 pm
You don t need to be at trivia-ruling mastermind to love poring over the items in an enormous auction, but possessing some nostalgia, or at least a bit of knowledge, for what will be on the block is helpful.
And if you know toys, movies, Disneyland, and television, well, pop culture maven, your dream auction is coming up, virtually, at Van Eaton Galleries.
For the Sherman Oaks-based nexus of niftiness will host its very first auction of 2021.
It s called A Celebration of Pop Culture, and the hundreds of treasures set to stand in the spotlight cover decades of headline-making films, TV shows, playthings, and more.
Surrealism library gifted to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Theo van Baaren, Offrande (Offer), 1989, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 2018, Rotterdam. Gift from the artist to Laurens Vancrevel and Frida de Jong 1989.
ROTTERDAM
.-Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is to receive a unique and impressive library of Surrealist works. It represents an important addition to the museums world-famous Surrealism collection.
The gift from the collectors Laurens Vancrevel and his partner Frida de Jong includes monographs, catalogues and literature on Surrealism, ranging from poetry and prose to essays, published in several languages. More than four thousand, mostly unique, titles from the beginnings of Surrealism up to the present day will be transferred to Boijmans at a time to be agreed. The gift means that the museum will have a very extensive Surrealism library in the future. With this in mind, the museum has conceived the idea of opening a study centre to focus on Surrealism, which will be