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Sparks - When Do I Get To Sing My Way

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Christi.. Cat-don..? 😅

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Sparkstember Day 15: 'Christi Haydon IS... The Toughest Girl In Town!'

I was pleased to see Christi credited for photography in the Interior Design liner notes so she that made her a legit candidate for the role in Toughest.

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Sparks hanging out

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gifset part 2 - Sparks on MTV's Most Wanted - 1/6/1995 (source)

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L-R: Ron Mael, Christi Haydon, and Russell Mael of Sparks photographed promoting their album, Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins, 1994

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drummers :3

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I'm at the Hollywood bowl for sparks and my girlfriend met christi haydon!!!!!!!!!!! And she was so fucking cute!!!!!!!!!! And my girlfriend is so fucking cute!!!!!!! And I'm drunk

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Little minnesota girl flies out to hollywood for autistic reasons. The results are disastrous and wonderful. Holy fuck is it hot here. Im wearing a sparkly green dress with a hello kitty badge/pin (One of the cashiers asked if I had won a prize. He sounded like he hated his job and life.) and we show up and this guy is like “YOU GUYS ARE HERE FOR MEGADETH RIGHT” What if I was a huge megadeth fan bitch . Anyway we go in i see christi haydon like five fuckin times all night I dont say anything i dont wanna be weird. She is so cool though. We buy the saddest most expensive pizza. It was such a disappointing pie. Miserable thing. We get to our seats we wait foreverrrr but theyre such good seats. Tmbg rocks so hard I think they were a little nervous at first but I feel like around the time number three got some rhythmic clapping they gained confidence. Insane spy, insane istanbul for how short it was. Damn good times is a damn good opener. Miller shreds forever. I dont even think they planned when will you die and it ruled. Cute set! And then they get the curtain that was behind them down and our seats change from pretty great to kind of shitty? See now heres the thing about sparks: I don’t know all the lyrics to any of their songs. I dont think i could even sing this town all the way through from memory. The other thing is that they put on such a fucking good show and I love them anyway and it turns me into a dancing machine. The only songs I stood up for were birdhouse and this town (shocking) and it was much more comfortable than constant standing from mtycdt to the end. Dancing in your chair is so special. So beaver o’lindy rocked me out of my mind for the second time. I cant even take live balls it ignites me like a firework i love it i go crazy i am a huge balls lover. Im SO grateful for this the bon voyage solo ripped so hard. It was mixed like nothing in milwaukee. I think the whole time in milwaukee it was mixed like nothing I dont remember any SICK FUCKIN SOLOS LIKE THAT. Massively talented lead guitarists in both these bands <3. I still couldve started a mbtmh (is this an acronym people use) moshpit sitting down. And all that brought Genuine sobbing it was the prettiest sight looking at all those lights .

I gave my phone to my mom to capture things and I dont think she understands concert videos the second she realized they were playing balls she recorded until the end. Which i do get the idea but then my phone died during a more regular length mtycdt clip. A billion people got a billion better videos of this show anyway.

I genuinely think they might be giants and sparks are the greatest bands in the world. In that order. I dont regret coming all the way out here (for that i do regret other things its So Hot). Also I never did do a milwaukee writeup, and this may just be what i term Row Four Delusion but russell had to have looked at me a thousand times Were dating now okay. Shouldve worn the hello kitty badge to that show dammit. I actually still for bad for not paying enough Ron Attention….i only got two compliments here compared to 8 in wi? That one was more official angst style . Thank you all! Thank you sparks and thank you they might be giants!! I love you both more than anything!!!!

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photos from the Interior Design vinyl

(photography by Christi Haydon, scanned by me)

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"And now - the answer to... When Do I Get to Sing 'My Way'"

gifset part 3 - Sparks on MTV's Most Wanted - 1/6/1995 (source)

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Sultry Klimt Portrait Smashes European Auction Record, Selling For £85.3m in London

The night's star lot made up nearly half of the £199m total for Sotheby's Modern and contemporary evening auction

— Kabir Jhala | 27 June 2023

Helena Newman, Sotheby’s chairman for Europe and worldwide head of Impressionist and Modern art, at the rostrum to sell Gustav Klimt's Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan) (1917). Photo: Haydon Perrior; courtesy of Sotheby's

To some fanfare but little surprise, the last portrait ever painted by Gustav Klimt has sold for a record auction price in Europe, fetching £85.3m (with fees) at Sotheby's Modern and contemporary art evening sale in London this evening (27 June).

Klimt's Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan) (1917), executed the year before the artist's death, was the night's star lot and accounted for close to half of the Modern and contemporary evening auction's £199m total (with fees), which narrowly surpassed the upper end of its £155.5m to £197.5m pre-sale estimate (calculated without fees). This is Sotheby's second-highest total for an evening sale in London, after one in March 2022 that made £222m.

Lady with a Fan's consignment made headlines when it was announced earlier this month: its estimate, "in excess of £65m", was the highest of any work offered at auction in the UK and in Europe. Guaranteed by both an irrevocable bid and a third-party guarantee, it was sure to sell. And so it did, hammering at £74m to the well-known adviser Patti Wong—formerly chairperson of Sotheby's Asia—bidding live in the New Bond Street salesroom on behalf of a Hong Kong-based client.

Providing some welcome punctuation to a largely flat portion of the auction that saw thin bidding and several works passed or sold below estimate, the Klimt received initial attention from two bidders in the room and two more on the phones. This four-step quickly turned into a two-way tussle between Wong and the underbidder, liaising on the phone with Sotheby's Asia deputy chairman Jen Hua. After a heated ten minutes steered by auctioneer Helena Newman, Sotheby’s chairman for Europe and worldwide head of Impressionist and Modern art, Hua dropped out of the race at £73.5m.

Klimt's Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan) (1917). Courtesy of Sotheby's

The Klimt painting surpasses the previous title holder of Europe's most expensive work sold at auction—Alberto Giacometti's 1961 sculpture L'Homme Qui Marche I, which made £65m (with fees) at Sotheby's London in 2010. Historic auction records are not adjusted for inflation, nor fluctuations in currency strength.

Depicting a woman with her kimono slipping off her shoulder, the sultry portrait is "Klimt experimenting and pushing the boundaries", Newman previously told The Art Newspaper. After the sale, she said that she was "unsurprised" by the amount of attention it received from Asian bidders considering its Chinese and Japanese motifs.

Sotheby’s last sold this painting almost 30 years ago, in 1994, for $11.6m (with fees), as part of the collection of Wendell Cherry, the American entrepreneur and art collector. It was consigned by the same family who bought it in 1994; Sotheby's did not disclose their reason for selling it.

Klimt's auction record stands at $104.5m, achieved at Christie's New York last November by the 1902 landscape painting Birch Forest, which came from the Paul G. Allen's collection.

Saving face

The Modern and contemporary art sale opened with a specially themed 24-lot sub-auction—Face to Face—focusing on portraits from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, tied to the recent re-opening of London's National Portrait Gallery. This included two paintings by the 92-year-old German-British artist Frank Auerbach, one of which broke his auction record when it sold at £5.6m (with fees).

But tonight's successes are largely those of the headline-grabbing Klimt, which kept a middling sale afloat: just two other eight-figure lots came to the block, both paintings carrying £8m to £12m estimates. A nude portrait by Lucian Freud, consigned by the same owner of the two Auerbachs, received just two bids, one likely from its third party guarantor via specialist Tom Eddison. It hammered to a bidder in the room at £8.1m. Meanwhile Cy Twombly's Untitled (1970) went with just one bid to its third-party guarantor, for £7.8m. More than one in every three lots tonight was guaranteed.

Just prior to the record-breaking Klimt, the sale suffered a slump that saw a several works hammer below their low estimates, including a 2016 acrylic on PVC panel painting by Kerry James Marshall. Shortly after, two seven-figure oil paintings, one by Edvard Munch and the other by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, failed to find homes, contributing to a less-than-stellar 86% sell-through rate.

"Buyers for several seasons have been more price sensitive," Newman said after the sale regarding the question of whether the market is undergoing a correction. But "tonight was a strong affirmation of strength in the market", she continued, adding that the imperfect sell-through rate was due to a relatively large volume: "The results were still strong for an evening sale, one of our best yet."

Arthur Jafa's Monster (2016)

The Modern and contemporary evening auction was preceded by The Now sale, featuring 14 works made in (or almost in) this century, many by rising market stars such as Julien Nguyen and Caroline Walker, as well as more established names like Günther Förg. That sale achieved £8.7m (including fees) against an estimate of £6.6m to £9.9m; three lots were withdrawn and one was passed. One of the two guaranteed lots from this sale, a 2018 painting by Mark Bradford, hammered with just one bid at its £2.5m low estimate.

In this leg, bidders were offered some exciting and intriguing works, such as Sarah Lucas's humorous and idiosyncratic painted bronze sculpture Tit Cat Down, which was shown in her 2015 British Pavilion show at the Venice Biennale. Another Venice star, Simone Leigh, who won the Golden Lion for her best participation in the 2022 biennial's central exhibition, saw her sculpture Mandeville hammer at £380,000, near its £400,000 high estimate.

New auction records were also set for two critically acclaimed artists: Arthur Jafa, whose arresting photographic self-portrait Monster (2018) made £110,000 against a £60,000 high estimate, and Michel Majerus, whose 1999 painting referencing Jean-Michel Basquiat, MoM Block Nr. 57, made £520,000 against a high estimate of £300,000. Majerus, who died in a plane crash in 2002, has recently been the subject of numerous exhibitions across Germany and the US, spearheaded by his galleries Matthew Marks, neugerriemschneider and Max Hetzler, which hope to position him as one of this century's greatest artists—and with a market to match.

But hammer prices at ten times the estimates were not seen during this The Now sale, as has previously been the case for this category. While this suggests a continued cooling of a once-red-hot market that reliably front-loaded evening sales, it is difficult to discount the pull of The Now altogether. As a Sotheby's spokesperson says: "Not a single lot with a low estimate of $1m or more by a young contemporary artist has failed to find a buyer at auction over the past five years."