“Yo, Mona Lisa, could I get a date on Friday?” sang Wyclef Jean on the Fugees’ debut album, in 1994. Around half a century earlier, Nat King Cole had crooned about Mona Lisa as the lady with the mystic smile in an Oscar-winning song. Fast-forward to 2018, when power couple Beyoncé and Jay-Z punctuated their music video filmed in the Louvre with views of the pair standing before the famous portrait that perpetually—as per the song’s title—sees crowds going “Apeshit.” And just a few months ago, the painting cameoed in another music video, this time with Lady Gaga (playing the…
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Hauser & Wirth’s $575,000 sale of Avery Singer’s Poker Players (study) (2024) leads the reported sales at FOG Design+Art Fair 2025 in San Francisco. The 11th edition of the fair kicked off with a VIP preview on January 23rd and ran through this past weekend at the Fort Mason Center piers on San Francisco Bay.This year’s fair invited 59 galleries from around the world to showcase an array of sculpture, painting, installation, and design objects. Participants hailed from major art centers across the United States, such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, as well as international hot spots,…
This Star Wars action figure was the star of the auction. It sold for $105,182.13, the highest selling price ever for a Ben (Obi-Wan) figure. Anyone who is a fan of Star Wars action figures and toys has likely heard about the auction handled by WorthPoint Industry Partner Hake’s Auctions. It’s the first part of a massive collection from Colorado home builder and collector Jeff Jacob. Jacob has been collecting toys and action figures for 32 years and recently decided to sell his collection. WorthPoint spoke to Jeff about his collection; check out this interview to see his thoughts on…
Any fan of the Star Wars films knows that the movies have generated millions of bits of merchandise for collectors and fans. Licensed clothing, décor, artwork, and more are available. Not every fan has thousands of pristine collectibles sealed in boxes, on display, and cataloged, but Jeff Jacob, a home builder in Littleton, Colorado, is not your average collector. Jeff Jacob, a home builder in Littleton, Colorado, decided to sell his massive toy collection. Photo: Hake’s Auctions Jacob has been collecting for 32 years, so deciding to let thousands of pieces go under the hammer wasn’t an easy decision. WorthPoint…
Will Seippel, CEO of WorthPoint, enjoys watching the items sold at auctions held by our WorthPoint Industry Partners. We thought it would be a great idea for him to select some of his favorite sold items and explain why those sales stood out to him. Gaining insights from Will is an excellent way to learn about buying and selling trends in our industry. We want to empower you to buy and sell with confidence. Take a look at his thoughts on a few of our partners’ recent sales. On January 23, 2025, WorthPoint added a whopping 202,367 items to its…
Daisy Ridley’s Star Wars film is to be written by George Nolfi.The scribe, who previously penned The Bourne Ultimatum and Ocean’s Twelve, is set to write the script for Star Wars: New Jedi Order, which will see the return of Ridley’s character Rey.The upcoming movie was initially due to be penned by Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson, though the pair left the project in early 2023 due to creative differences with Lucasfilm.When New Jedi Order was announced at Star Wars Celebration in April 2023, Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight was revealed as the new scribe for the movie, though he…
The most difficult of all subjects in the world of fine arts is the subject of running waters and the effect they have on light, and on rocks, and on air, etc.. And yet, there’s nothing like a master artist flexing their art superpowers and delivering exceptional work. Lori Niland Rounds does that and more in “Colors of the Creek II.”She notes:Colors on the Creek II is an encaustic monotype that I created after viewing the colorful waterlilies of downtown Frederick’s Carroll Creek Linear Park. I composed a ‘birds-eye’ perspective to capture the vibrant colors of the lilies and lily pads…
This year’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition features three films all about characters on spiritual, physical, and sexual journeys toward new versions of themselves. Nadia Fall’s “Brides” follows two girls as they travel from the U.K. to Syria in order to join an extremist group they think will offer them freedom from religious persecution and a sense of shared community. In Amel Guellaty’s “Where The Wind Comes From,” two wayward youths hope an art competition will offer them a life raft in post-revolution Tunisia. Lastly, director Chloé Robichaud and screenwriter Catherine Léger’s “Two Women” traces the sexual liberation of two unfulfilled…
The true discovery of this year’s Sundance so far for this viewer has been Sierra Falconer’s lovely and delicate “Sunfish (and Other Stories on Green Lake),” a series of connected vignettes around a Western Michigan body of water that gives it a title. Knowing almost nothing about movies in Park City other than title, location, and time because we cover almost everything can be a gift in that I had no idea that Falconer’s film would speak to me so directly, a man who grew up not far from Green Lake and spent summers on one nearly identical to it.…
You’ve likely never visited Kazakhstan. You probably live at least 10,000 kilometers from Almaty, the largest city in the country, and may not even know its name. Is there modern jewelry-making there? (Spoiler: there is now!) Can jewelry art combine the past and the present? (Another spoiler: it can!) Ilya Kazakov, Art, 2020, ring in silver, paintbrushes, copper, bone, brass, wood, hot enamel, jade, chrysoprase, 2 x 1 ¾ inches (50 x 45 mm), photo: Kamilla Barysbekova Once upon a time, there was a remarkable jewelry tradition in Kazakhstan. Highly symbolic, it reflected the nomadic essence of its people, their…
