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Marilyn Monroe

October 2024

Le Baiser de l’Hotel de Ville, 1950, by Robert Doisneau, carries a pre-sale estimate of $US 10,000 to 15,000 in Phillips’ Photographs auction in New York on October 9, 2024. It is signed in ink in the margin.

Iconic images of life, death and football fetch top dollar

A series of auctions suggests the market for big-name photographers is alive and well.

  • Elizabeth Fortescue

March 2024

The Oscars are the film awards by which all others are judged.

Spurned, slighted, rejected: Oscar snubs critics will never get over

There are some movies and artists that memorably – and some would say outrageously – got the brush off from the academy.

  • Brooks Barnes

November 2023

Cast and writers from “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul” on a picket line outside Sony Pictures studios.

Hollywood actors end multibillion-dollar strike

George Clooney and other stars lent support to the months-long work stoppage, which resulted in studios pulling movies and losing billions of dollars in ticket sales.

  • Brooks Barnes, John Koblin and Nicole Sperling

October 2023

A miniature model called “Red Leader,” a X-wing Starfighter from the 1977 film “Star Wars, Episode IV, A New Hope,” on display in Texas.

A 55cm X-Wing model from the original ‘Star Wars’ sells for $5m

The model, discovered in a cardboard box owned by a Hollywood visual effects artist, headlined at a sale of movie props that brought $21 million.

  • Michael Levenson

June 2023

At PJ Clarke’s on that fateful April day, a high-powered New York attorney glanced at the five-second grab of Trump arriving at the courthouse and, between gulps of Guinness, lamented that foreigners must regard the US as a “joke”.

In America there are two Trump truths: mine and yours

Veteran writer Andrew Clark experiences Donald Trump’s impact on the US through a famous New York bar.

  • Andrew Clark
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May 2023

Bruce Springsteen, left, and Steve Jobs, right, rocked 501s, but Marilyn Monroe looked best in 701s.

Happy 150th birthday to Steve Jobs’ favourite jeans

Levi’s is celebrating the anniversary of its oldest style, the 501. Its appeal, says the company’s design director, is that it refuses to change.

  • Lauren Sams

February 2023

Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch, actress and ’60s sex icon, dead at 82

When Playboy in 1998 named the 100 sexiest female stars of the 20th century, Welch came in third – right after Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield.

  • Anita Gates

December 2022

Brad Pitt: “We weren’t going to do this unless we found like-minded partners.”

Sale values Brad Pitt’s Plan B at $440m

The actor’s independent production house is ready to go “grander and more global” after a deal to sell a stake to France’s Mediawan.

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  • Alex Barker and Leila Abboud

November 2022

“Lucinda Colourburst” necklace, by Stefano Canturi, from the collection of Melissa Caddick, estimate $60,000 to $70,000, being sold by Smith & Singer next Wednesday night in Sydney. 

Will buyers pay a premium for Melissa Caddick’s lavish jewellery?

Smith & Singer have taken the unusual step of publishing the eye watering prices the fraudster paid, and the much lower estimates.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

October 2022

Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger, 1975, sold for $85,000 (hammer), at Menzies’ prints and multiples auction in Sydney last week. 

Andy Warhol and Mick Jagger save the day

Andy Warhol’s prints of Mick Jagger and Ingrid Bergman found buyers, but Tracey Moffat’s set of 10 giant-sized photos proved a bridge too far for the market.

  • Gabriella Coslovich
Tracey Moffat, Body Remembers, 2017, image (i) Spanish Window, part of the complete suite of 10 images being sold at Menzies’ prints and multiples sale on Wednesday October 12, with an estimate of $350,000 to $450,000.

Record expectations for Tracey Moffatt photo series

The Indigenous artist’s suite of 10 works has been consigned from the Balnaves Collection and has an expected range of $350,000 to $450,000.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

May 2022

Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn”.

Warhol painting of Marilyn sells for a record $280m

The Marilyn Monroe painting became the most expensive 20th century artwork to sell at auction.

  • James Tarmy and Chris Rovzar

August 2020

Waldorf Astoria New York. The hotel is undergoing a $US1 billion refurbishment.

Now you can call New York's Waldorf Astoria home

A $US1 billion revamp is adding uber-luxury residences to the mythic Manhattan hotel, but the city is facing a glut of apartments already.

  • Edwin Heathcote

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