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news: eva wonder what a $15.2 million statue looks like? |
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May 17, 2008 - 12:45 PM - by Apache69yell
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http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment...ches_from.html
Takashi Murakami, My Lonesome CowboyCourtesy of Sotheby's
Of the many happy campers at the record-demolishing (and economy-confounding) Sotheby's auction last night, Takashi Murakami may have been the happiest. Drawing stares from art-world veterans — one told us she'd never seen an artist show up to watch his own work on the block — the Japanese Pop maestro sat in the back of the room with a serene smile as My Lonesome Cowboy, his larger-than-life sculpture of a boy waving an ejaculate lasso, brought in $15.2 million — quintupling the artist's previous record at auction. (The signature piece, an edition of which is currently on view at the artist's Brooklyn Museum show, was sold by his former dealer Marianne Boesky.) "Oh, it's not surprising," Murakami said as he huddled with his Paris dealer, Emmanuel Perrotin, after the auction. Pretty gratifying, though? "Yeah, yeah, yeah," he said. "Basically." Another contented observer of the auction, albeit from the astral plane, was Robert Rauschenberg. Two days after the artist's death at 82, his painting Overdrive did, as speculated, set a record, bringing in $14.6 million. (All Sotheby's figures include their commission, which is about 10 percent atop the winning bid.) The big winner of the night, however, was Francis Bacon, whose triptych set a new record for the artist when it went to a phone bidder for a staggering $86.3 million. ("Be brave," auctioneer Tobias Meyer had exhorted the buyers calling in, presumably from oversees. "Look at the Euros.")
There were some surprises at the sale, however. Most notably, a massive Rothko failed to draw a single bidder. (Sotheby's, which devoted a full eight pages to the work in the night's catalogue, had forecast it would earn more than $35 million.) "We've seen an inevitable moving towards bigger and bigger," Nick Lawrence, the Freight + Volume gallerist, said. "When will it get to where the center cannot hold?" But on a night that drew out many of the major players, it appeared that the center was holding just fine for the time being. "At first I wondered whether the famous irrational exuberance might be at work," said writer Anthony Haden-Guest, who is working on a book about the history of the thrumming market. "But no, it started real strong, though it molted a bit towards the end. I think it's certainly remarkable." —Andrew Goldstein
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news: It is now legal to oogle moobs but boobs are still illegal! |
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May 17, 2008 - 12:42 PM - by Apache69yell
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv..._id=1770&boobs
Judges rule it is legal to ogle man boobs (but not women's breasts) as they overturn conviction of swimming pool 'peeping Tom'
By TOM KELLY - More by this author » Last updated at 12:17pm on 16th May 2008  Comments
It is a subject that most men manage to keep under wraps - or at least under their shirts. But yesterday male breasts, or moobs as they are sometimes known, were right out in the open in one of the highest courts in the land.
Three senior judges grappled with the question of whether male breasts could be regarded as having any sexual allure.
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 Jack Nicholson is a proud owner of man boobs - and he doesn't seem to care whether they're ogled or not
The leading legal minds got to grips with the issue after a man who secretly filmed another man's top half at a public swimming pool was convicted of voyeurism.
Care worker Kevin Bassett, 44, was found guilty last year after using a video camera hidden in a plastic bag to take shots of a swimmer.
Yesterday, his conviction was quashed at the Court of Appeal after Lord Justice Hughes, Mr Justice Treacy and Sir Paul Cresswell ruled that a man's bare torso did not count as 'private parts'.
The 2003 Sexual Offences Act specifies that "private parts" must be exposed for voyeurism to have taken place. Only women, it seems, have breasts that can be seen in a sexual light.
Lord Justice Hughes explained: "The intention of Parliament was to mean female breasts and not an exposed male chest.
"The former are still private amongst 21st century bathers, the second is not."
At the original trial at St Albans Crown Court, a bather told how he spotted Mr Bassett as he swam at the Grange Paddock Complex in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire.
"I noticed a middle-aged male on a bench holding a plastic bag," he said. "I noticed a hole at an angle pointing towards myself and my daughter.
"I had visions of my daughter being on the internet. I said to him: 'Have you got a camera in there?' He said, 'No, no'. I was shaking and shouting."
Mr Bassett, from Spalding, Lincolnshire, later admitted to the pool manager: "I did have a video. It wasn't the little girl.
"It was the man I was interested in."
The practising Christian told the jury he had hidden his homosexuality for many years.
"It has made me ill over the years. I want to be like everyone else," he said.
After telling the court he had since received counselling and support from friends and family, he was given an 18-month community order.
Sentencing him, Judge John Plumstead said: "It is by good grace and good luck that you were not lynched that day."
He was also put on the sex offenders' register for five years and banned from using a camera or recording equipment in public unless it was clearly on display.
The Appeal Court judges ruled that although the trial judge had given the jury detailed directions on the question before they retired, he had failed to fully deal with the issue of the meaning of the term 'breasts'.
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news: Myspace wins spam lawsuit |
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May 17, 2008 - 11:10 AM - by Apache69yell
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MySpace has won a $234m (£120m) legal judgement over junk messages sent to members of the social networking site.
Victory in the case was awarded to MySpace after Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines, the men behind the junk mail, failed to show up in court.
The judgement is thought to be the largest ever given against senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail.
However, anti-spam experts said MySpace had little chance of getting the cash it sought.
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