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Atlanta Magazine
Illustration by Max-o-matic
If you want a definitive history of
Atlanta magazine’s early years, you’ll have to read Robert Coram’s epic 14,000-word story that took up the entire feature well of our 35th anniversary issue in 1996. (We recently posted it online, though if you can find a hard copy, you’ll notice that it’s followed by a story on Anne Quatrano and Clifford Harrison’s Cartersville farmhouse written by yours truly.) Owned by the Chamber of Commerce until 1977, Atlanta was at the forefront of a wave of city magazines that swept the country in the 1960s. Its founding editors were an audacious bunch. Editor-in-Chief Jim Townsend, from Lanett, Alabama, went on to launch at least 30 city magazines, causing
Round XV, Rocky IV (1985), LeRoy Neiman courtesy LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation
LeRoy Neiman’s sketches pack a punch quite literally. The late US artist known for his kitsch expressionistic paintings of bruised boxers dodging jabs or throwing hooks spent hours on the set of the
Rocky films starring Sylvester Stallone, sketching the stars and the scenes from this popular cinematic tale of triumph over adversity. Neiman’s action-packed, rather bloody drawings of the
Rocky saga are on show in Gleason’s of Brooklyn, a legendary boxing gym (
Age Before Beauty, until 10 January). Fans of Stallone’s sporting hero can also browse the works online, from violent fight scenes (
Andy Warhol signed pen and ink soup can drawing to be sold July 23rd
LYNBROOK, New York
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This original pen and ink soup can drawing by Andy Warhol, signed by the artist, will be sold Wednesday, July 23rd.
Philip Weiss Auctions
LYNBROOK, N.Y. â A summer sale spectacular featuring over 700 lots of historical items, militaria, posters, rare books, rock ânâ roll, ocean liner memorabilia, aviation collectibles and more will be held Wednesday, July 23rd, by Philip Weiss Auctions, online (at Proxibid.com and Invaluable.com) and in the firmâs gallery at 74 Merrick Road, beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern time.
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