Out with the (very) old at Sotheby’s.
Would you like a statue? Made in the 1610s, this can be yours for an estimated $8 million to $12 million.Credit.Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times
By Alex Pappademas
Jan. 14, 2021
In one of his earliest visual memories, Michael Diamond is 2 or 3 years old, crawling around on the floor of his parents’ apartment on Central Park West, looking up at massive canvases he now knows were paintings by Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman.
“These very intense paintings, and they’re big in scale,” he said.
Despite this exposure, Mr. Diamond, 55, did not grow up to be a painter, and he collects only records. In the early 1980s he helped found Beastie Boys, a hardcore punk band that evolved first into a tongue-in-cheek rap group and then a somewhat serious one. (We know him as Mike D.)
January 7, 2021
One of Gary Diamond’s last requests was a final ride atop a Molino fire engine.
Wednesday afternoon, he took his last ride atop the Molino Station’s new Engine 18 to his final resting place in the Highland Baptist Church cemetery.
Diamond was a longtime firefighter, serving during his career as the volunteer chief in Molino, a captain at Navarre Beach and fire service instructor at Pensacola State College.
“He was more than just a man. He dedicated his life to serving and protecting others,” Diamond’s son Joseph Diamond said.
Firefighters, family and friends from across the area gathered for Diamond’s funeral Wednesday at Olive Baptist Church and a graveside service at Highland Baptist. In the cemetery, a fireman’s bell tolled in his honor, “Amazing Grace” was played on a bagpipe, and an Escambia County Fire dispatcher conducted a “last call” over the county’s fire radio system.
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