Indigenous beadwork flourishes on Instagram
A pair of earrings, beaded onto smoked hide, by the Cherokee artist Tayler Gutierrez. Photo: Tayler Gutierrez.
by Anna V. Smith
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.- Last year, after the museum that Tayler Gutierrez worked at in Salt Lake City closed temporarily because of the coronavirus, she turned to her beadwork.
A citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Gutierrez, 24, had been practicing beadwork for years after learning from a mentor, Diné poet Tacey Atsitty, and she already had a modest following on her Instagram page, where she posted her custom hat brims, earrings and leather pouches.
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Once a marginal part of the market, online-only auctions now account for 14% of total sales worldwide. Photo: AFP
The world has changed since the pandemic hit, and so has the art market.
Auction houses have ramped up online sales, while collectors are much more at ease with the idea of buying artworks without seeing them in the flesh.
The phenomenon is such that global online-only auction sales surpassed the record sum of US$1bil (RM4bil) in 2020, according to a new report from ArtTactic. Online-only auction sales increased by 524% to reach US$1.05bil (RM4.24bil), topping this significant milestone for the first time.
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Rare Tintin comic book art expected to sell for millions at Paris auction The 1936 work in Chinese ink, gouache and watercolour was destined as a cover for The Blue Lotus, but it never sat on any book store shelves because it was rejected for being too expensive to reproduce on a wide scale.
The inked and water-painted original panel of the comic character Tintin from the 1936 The Blue Lotus album drawn by Belgian creator Herge, is displayed at the Artcurial auction house in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
FFDP Bassist Chris Kael Auctioning Off A Piece Of His Beard
We can add this to the list of strange things we never thought we d see for sale. Five Finger Death Punch bassist, Chris Kael took to Instagram to share a photo of a lonely piece of beard hair lying in the floor. Turns out, Chris has put that piece of beard hair up for action on eBay.
In the Instagram post (see below) Chris details how he lost the piece of his beard when he stood up to quickly without realizing that part of his beard was actually under his leg. He points out that luckily, he has a whole chin full so there s no need for us to mourn the rogue dread left behind. The eBay listing itself is a little more tongue in cheek suggesting that you can now have just the tip.
2004 Lincoln Town Car With Less Than 8,000 Miles Is Old-School American Luxury 14 Jan 2021, 7:07 UTC ·
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Describing a 2004 car as old is pretty zoomer of me at first glance, but I don’t really agree with that point of view. You see, the Lincoln Town Car is old-school American luxury in my mind because of the Panther platform, introduced by Ford in the late 1970s with the LTD and Mercury Marquis. 58 photos
It boggles my mind how the Blue Oval kept the Panther going for 33 years even though it was close to being discontinued in the 1980s. I’m similarly surprised by the Lincoln lineup for the 2021 model year because the MKZ and Continental have both been discontinued in favor of sport utility vehicles. In other words, the Town Car marks the end of an era for the American luxury brand, and it doesn’t get more luxurious than the Ultimate trim level.