Is originality still nurtured in times of stealing, piracy and re-mixing? Thanks to the joys of modern technology, people do not even hesitate for a single moment when clicking on that free download, it’s illegal by the way, or when duplicate copies are burnt on your computer’s CD writer. Yep, illegal music is everywhere.

Perhaps, now original will have a sacred space for once. Because don’t we always like to be different from the herd? Speaking in the same tune, what value will 100 Billboard charts in the form of a record have for us music lovers? Plenty of money, of course, and pride. After all, doesn’t a handwritten letter or card still reaches out to us in times of SMS-ing and e-mailing!

Too many questions, but the answer lies in the single, to-die-for grandcollection of music spanning over 1955 to 1990 represented by Neiman Marcus. The thirty-five year old collection is priceless, even more because they come in the traditional record format. So do hear it out for those 18,400 records.

Beatles, Elvis, Joplin, Hemdrix…just name the name and Marcus has it all for you. That too, in the original as you would find many records personally autographed by the famous singers themselves.

Via lifestylebuzz

Masterpieces and artworks by artists who have passed away are eternal and invaluable. It is one arena that keeps its doors open even for deceased one’s to make their entry into the Guinness book of world records. And lately, this has been exemplified by a celebrated artist Lucian Freud. His depiction of an overweight nude woman (Sue Tilley, 51, Supervisor of Jobcenter) snoozing has summoned more than a few dough notes to be exhausted. The lady masquerade for this 85-year-old painter for long four-years and to say the utmost she tagged herself his muse. She was christened as “Big Sue” and got introduced to Freud by Mr. Leigh Bowery.

The painting overshadowed the earlier mark of $19.3 million and got sold off for $33.6 million.

Via BBC

A three-panel art work by Francis Bacon lately got success in breaking the NYC auction record at contemporary art auction on 14 May. It fetched in sales of $86 million plus after three bidders contended for it. The $86,281,000 price of the masterwork “Triptych, 1976” also set an auction record for the British artist. Another artwork that set an auction record is a 1963 painting “Overdrive” by pop artist Robert Rauschenberg. The painting generated sales of $14.6 million plus. Both the artworks got sold to an anonymous buyer and the aforementioned prices include the commission of the auction house.

Note: Counted 10 artworks from the lot of 83 failed to sell, thereby breaking records for almost 18 artists starting from Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni to Tom Wesselmann and Takashi Murakami.

Via AP