Cher items snapped up at auction
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Possessions belonging to singer and actress Cher are sold at a sale in Los Angeles.
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Strong sales for Impressionist and modern works were evident this week at New York&#39;s premier auction houses, with Paul Gauguin&#39;s &quot;Maternite (II)&quot; bringing in $39.
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Unseen photos of former Clash singer Joe Strummer go on display in an exhibition that includes his personal archive.
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Bidders flipped their wigs Thursday at a Manhattan auction where one of pop art icon Andy Warhol&#039;s signature silver hairpieces sold for &#36;10,800.
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Bidders shelled out $90.2 million in a contemporary art sale at Sotheby's on Wednesday, the latest in a record-breaking week of sales for London auction houses.
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By Gus G. Sentementes, The Baltimore Sun  Dec. 14--The lengthy list of pilfered items from storage rooms at Camden Yards reads like an inventory from a baseball memorabilia collector's garage:   A Melvin Mora bobblehead doll: $3. Six Orioles warm-up jackets: $360.
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The online auctioneer has a hot -- if not grilled -- item on its hands.
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Come October, the highest bidder can sleep in Cher's bed. It's one of 700 items from the superstar's Malibu home that will be auctioned beginning Oct. 3. The sale includes furniture, artwork, jewelry, a 2003 H2 Hummer and original costumes by Bob Mackie.
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Rock 'n' roll fans with deep pockets can buy a Beatles guitar or a mugshot of the pop star formerly known as Cat Stevens at what Christie's said on Wednesday was its biggest auction of show business memorabilia.
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A gold-plated gun and a pill bottle owned by Elvis Presley, an umbrella twirled by Marilyn Monroe and Alfred Hitchcock's passport were among items that attracted bidders at an auction Saturday.
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More than 650 items belonging to Johnny Cash and his wife June Carter Cash are being auctioned in New York.
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Johnny Cash's guitars, his black leather boots and a tin cup from Folsom Prison are among the memorabilia from the late country music star displayed on Tuesday ahead of an auction at Sotheby's.
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A Valentineâs Day charity auction at Sothebyâs in New York raised more than $42.5 million to benefit H.I.V./AIDS relief programs in Africa, far above the presale estimate of about $29 million, The Associated Press reported. Organized by Sothebyâs, Bono, Damien Hirst (whose âWhere Thereâs a Will Thereâs a Way,â above, was among the works sold) and the Gagosian Gallery, the event set sale records for 17 artists, including Howard Hodgkin, Marc Quinn and Keith Tyson, and included pieces by Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons and Ed Ruscha. Proceeds will go the United Nations Foundation and will support programs run by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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'Lucy' goes for the soft sell NSFW Thanks very much to reader Nick L for alerting us to a rather strange eBayer who has decided to deploy her not inconsiderable assets as a sort of mammary display stand. Try this "auction" for a Panasonic CD player front panel:â¦
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SACRAMENTO, Calif.  - Thousands of bargain hunters  flocked to a California state garage sale on Saturday, snapping  up unwanted property from confiscated penknives to cut-price  laptop computers.
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Fashion icon and award-winning singer  and actress Cher is clearing her Malibu home of its Gothic  contents and reshaping her life in a giant garage sale.
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Contemporary art collectors opened  their wallets on Thursday and shelled out $42.6 million at a  Valentine's Day charity auction spearheaded by rocker Bono and  British artist Damien Hirst to benefit the fight against AIDS  in Africa.