Old cassettes are finally back in vogue. This lot sold for $158.12 in February 2025. Collectors of anachronistic media rejoice: what’s old is new again, and VHS tapes and cassettes are now worth checking for value on the secondary market. Read on to learn about the hottest sellers in S.O.S. (Surplus Old Stuff): VHS and cassette tapes. VHS & Cassettes: 1980s Big-Haired Fun VHS and cassette tapes hail from the same neon-colored, big-haired era of the 1980s. While for decades they rotted on shelves with little resale value, today’s hipsters have finally rediscovered the magic of magnetic tape. I’ve been…
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The famed Paul Skenes Topps MLB Debut card sold for more than $1.1 million in March 2025 with Fanatics. Image source: Fanatics When an 11-year-old collector unearthed the Paul Skenes MLB Rookie Debut one-of-a-kind baseball card, speculation about the card’s future quickly ran rampant. That answer came quickly when the card went up for auction with Fanatics. Initially, there was speculation that the bounty offered by the Pittsburgh Pirates, Olivia Dunne, and others would come to fruition. Still, the collector and his family chose the auction block and made bank, to say the least. The auction closed on March 20,…
Suzanne Jackson, an influential painter whose work was a star of the 2024 Whitney Biennial, will get a traveling retrospective that kicks off this fall. The show, titled “Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love,” will first open on September 27 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which co-organized the show with the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. It will then travel in March 2026 to the Walker before finishing out its run at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Across the 80-plus works featured will be early figurative paintings, abstractions from her mid-career period, and more recent works, some…
Before horror movie legend Tony Todd passed away late last year after a battle with cancer, he filmed a final appearance for the Final Destination franchise. Todd had appeared in three prior Final Destination films as funeral director William Bludworth, who emerges as one of the experts on death and its peculiar rules in the long-running series about groups of teens who inadvertently survive accidents that were meant to kill them, only to find grisly improbable fates elsewhere.The latest trailer for the new Final Destination, Bloodlines, features an appearance from Todd as Bludworth. It also lays out the premise of this movie: Once again, someone manages to…
Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-born photographer acclaimed for her fearless self-portraits and incisive explorations of American history, has died at 48. The Brooklyn Museum, which hosted her first institutional solo show in 2024, confirmed her passing. The cause of death was not publicly disclosed.Faustine’s practice centered on reclaiming visibility for Black women in the United States. Often working with self-portraiture, she used images of her own body to address legacies of slavery, gendered oppression, and historical omission. “I live in a city and a country that are filled with monuments and icons of all sorts—mostly to white men,” Faustine told Artsy…
CEO Will Seipell, CTO Antoine Lyseight, and Senior Revenue Manager Nathan Teasdale recently attended the BOSS Reseller Remix in Las Vegas. In the vintage and collectibles space, resellers play an essential role. They have to know both sides of an equation: an accurate idea of an item’s worth and its selling price in current market conditions. Sellers also have to understand shipping costs, storage, and inventory management. That’s why an event like the BOSS Reseller Remix, held yearly in Las Vegas, is such a good opportunity. Community is crucial in the realm of selling vintage and collectibles, and at BOSS,…
Think twice before scrapping your grandmother’s charm bracelet. Once a family heirloom is gone, there’s no going back. Back in the late aughts, gold hit $1,000 an ounce for the first time. People all over the country attended gold parties where they could sell anything made of gold and walk away with cash in hand. Now that prices are topping $3,000 per ounce and climbing, a new wave of gold sellers will likely start pulling out all the gold they’ve had stashed away and look to sell some of it for scrap. Parting with jewelry while prices are way up…
This year’s Ebert Fellows attended the True/False Film Festival, one of the most essential non-fiction cinema events of the year. Here are their reports: KENNEDY CALDWELL The true crime genre has transformed from investigative journalism into a cultural spectacle that blurs the line between justice, entertainment and exploitation. This shift was evident at this year’s True/False Film Festival in Columbia, MO, where two documentaries, “Predators” and “The Zodiac Killer Project,” examined this dynamic from different angles. “Predators” revisits the rise and fall of “To Catch a Predator,” the NBC Dateline series that aired from 2004 to 2007, questioning the ethics…
Rarely does it matter that Ken Burns’ “Baseball,” an immersive ten-part docuseries about the history of America’s pastime, is built on frustrating inaccuracies, fetishizes an East Coast narrative, or runs out of steam once you get to the modern game. All of those weaknesses fade in comparison to the series’ importance as an oral historical document, particularly in Episode 5: “Shadow Ball.” That episode, next to the sixth, which covers Jackie Robinson’s distinctly political act of breaking the color barrier, is about those who paved the way for him in the Negro Leagues. For “Shadow Ball,” Burns gathered some of…
Pharrell Williams has dropped a new hit in Paris, and this time, it’s not a single, but an art exhibition titled “FEMMES” at Perrotin. Curated by the Grammy award–winning musician, the exhibition features nearly 40 artists, including Carrie Mae Weems, Nina Chanel Abney, and Todd Gray. The show, which includes a range of Black artists, aims to spotlight the influence and narrative of Black womanhood. The exhibition will be on view until April 19th.The exhibition follows Pharrell’s first showcase with Perrotin, “G I R L,” in 2014, coinciding with his album of the same name. This first showcase paid tribute…
