Saturday, July 23, 2011

Andy Warhol Self Portrait Sells For $17 Million As London Art Boom Continues


Last month, an Andy Warhol portrait of Mao Zedong from late actor Dennis Hopper's collection sold for $302,500.
While that seemed like a lot of money at the time, it's NOTHING compared to what art dealer Larry Gagosian paid for a Warhol self portrait at Christie's on Wednesday.
Gagosian dropped 10.8 million pounds, or $17 million, on [...]

paris-hiltons-stolen-birthday-cake-makers-respond-to-controversy


Well, they're taking the news pretty well!


In light of the news that Paris Hilton's $3,200 birthday cake was stolen by a drunken party crasher, the company that baked it, Lucid Absinthe, has issued the following statement:


“It is very unfortunate that someone stole the cake from Paris’s birthday party. We had the cake designed especially for Paris with Lucid in the batter and a beautiful representation of Lucid's artwork on it, which she had requested to meet the Moulin Rouge theme of the party. We’re happy that Paris and her guests were able to enjoy a night of Lucid cocktails, including the Paris Lemonade / Paris frozen Lucid Sorbet – and only wish that the guests could have tried her delicious cake. As for Paz, feel free to connect with us on the Lucid Absinthe Facebook page, where we would love to hear your side of the story and thoughts on the cake!”


Wowza! Sounds like they're just more concerned about getting feedback about how it tasted!


Ha! We still don't condone what happened, but at least there aren't too many hard feelings - at least on their end!


Thoughts??


[Image via WENN.]



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