Abdoune following his purchase of the painting. Photo: Sacha Jafri.
Inside a ballroom at the Atlantis Hotel on a manmade archipelago in Dubai, British artist Sacha Jafri made history. On March 24, he sold his work
The Journey of Humanity for $62 million, making it the second most expensive painting ever sold at auction by a living artist. The price isn’t the only grandiose part: at 17,000 square feet, the equivalent of four NBA-regulation basketball courts, the painting has claimed the Guinness World Record for the largest art canvas.
On a normal day in a normal year, such a mind-boggling price would immediately make waves around the world. But the sale came less than two weeks after an NFT by the digital artist Beeple fetched $69 million at Christie’s, and the art world seems only able to process one historic price fetched by one relatively unknown artist at a time.
Gronkowski catches football dropped from helicopter for world record
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April 26 (UPI) NFL star Rob Gronkowski returned to his alma mater, the University of Arizona, to break a world record by catching a football dropped from a helicopter 600 feet above the ground.
Gronkowski, who was serving as an honorary coach alongside former New England Patriots teammate Tedy Bruschi for the ASU Wildcats game Saturday, donned a jersey bearing his old university No. 48 to make the Guinness World Record-breaking catch.
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneer made the catch on his third attempt, celebrating with his trademark Gronk Spike. Every time you step on the field, you ve got to raise that bar to another level, baby, CNN quoted Gronkowski as saying after the catch. And I just raised that bar to this level.
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Captain Sir Tom Moore worried there wouldn t be enough sponge cake at his funeral
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