Victor Reyes California 2010
hyde or die
Call it the lost art of drinking responsibly: A man entrusted with helping to sell a $1.3 million painting said it disappeared while he was in a drunken haze, according to a lawsuit filed by a co-owner of the canvas.
James Carl Haggerty took the painting, noted French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot’s circa 1857 “Portrait of a Girl,” to a Manhattan hotel on July 28 for a potential buyer to examine, Kristyn Trudgeon’s lawsuit said. Then Haggerty hung out at the hotel bar and was seen on security cameras leaving the building with the painting after midnight, according to the lawsuit.
But there was no sign of the portrait on the cameras at his Manhattan apartment building when he got home nearly two hours later, the lawsuit said. And the next morning, Haggerty told painting co-owner Thomas A. Doyle III he “could not recall its whereabouts, citing that he had had too much to drink the previous evening,” according to the lawsuit filed Monday in a Manhattan state court.
Trudgeon is seeking what she says is the roughly $1.3 million value of the painting, which spent years in the collection of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, according to museum spokeswoman Sarah Stifler.
Jean Lowe Partial Installation View of the Loneliness Clinic, Diplomas and George Nelsen Sling Sofa, 2004
The new “Buildings” app for iphones tells you about the local architecture.
A free new iPhone application that shows architecture from across the globe is now available for download from iTunes.
Buildings is an application containing an encyclopaedia of architecture at the user’s fingertips. It supplies information, images and videos on over 2500 historic, contemporary and conceptual buildings. It lets the user find and learn about architecture nearby, across their country or overseas.
Using GPS technology to pinpoint the users location, Building is also a perfect mobile guide for travellers who can use their iPhone to find directions to buildings of interest.
and an excerpt from Archinect’s review:
The app is simply titled “Buildings”, and after playing around with it for the last week, I’ve become hooked. I’m finding myself launching the app as I move around Los Angeles to check which buildings surround me. The database is a little sparse for this user’s city, at the moment, but the open-source nature of this well-constructed platform will inevitably help fill out the gaps quickly.
Seems pretty cool to me.
Sidenote: Peter, please download this. Thanks!
