A Gallery sold Mark Cuban the World Trade Center Drawings which he Donated to the Smithsonian
Carlos Diniz, the most famous architectural illustrator of the 20th century, drew the original World Trade Center drawings, ten years before the Twin Towers were built, and his drawings helped persuade the NY Port Authority to allow the construction of the buildings.
Carlos Diniz's family approached A Gallery to place these drawings in a museum so we secured the help of Mark Cuban, who purchased the 68 drawings and donated them to the Smithsonian Museum, as part of the US National Collection, in time for the 20th anniverssary of 9/11.
Read about it here: www.dallasnews.com/arts-entert ... -design-museum/
See the 45 drawings by Carlos Diniz that Mark Cuban bought via A Gallery and donated to the Smithsonian (as well as 23 works by illustrators from the Carlos Diniz company) here: www.si.edu/search/collection-images?edan_q=carlos diniz&
World's Youngest Self-made Billionaire Buys Carlos Diniz's CAA Drawing
The world’s youngest self-made billionaire, Austin Russell, CEO of Luminar Technologies, bought Carlos Diniz’s drawing of the CAA headquarters via A Gallery for $25,000.
As well as the CAA building, Carlos Diniz helped create much of modern Hollywood and Los Angeles, working on MCA Universal Studios, Disneyland and Disney World, The Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Pacific Design Center and much more.
Todd Graves Buys Union Station Drawings to Gift to Museum
Todd Graves, owner of Raising Cane's (#307 on Bloomberg Billioanires), bought 12 original Union Station drawings by Carlos Diniz from A Gallery, first to display them in Union Station where his new restaurant has opened, and then to gift to a museum.
Christy Lee Rogers Wins Sony World Photography Award
Christy Lee Rogers beat 274,000 entires to win the Open Section of the Sony World Photography Award with her artwork "Harmony" from her Muses series.
The Times of London Joins A Gallery's Call for Bond Drawings to Be Placed in Museum
A Gallery's director was quoted in The Times of London calling for the drawings by John McLusky that were the first visual representation of James Bond, to be placed in a museum. The Times said:
"Fraser Scott, director of A Gallery, said the cartoons deserved to be bought by a philanthropist and placed in a museum for future generations to enjoy.
“There’s only a handful of British cultural icons that represent us around the world and James Bond is one of the most recognisable, long-lasting and well known”, he said.
“What’s less well known is that the first Bond book only sold 3,000 copies and even after three Bond stories had been released by Fleming, they didn’t take off, particularly in America, until they were serialised as comics, illustrated by John McLusky.
“Not only may we never have had the Bond films without these drawings, they led Sean Connery to be cast due to his likeness to McLusky’s first ever face of Bond, and so are an essential part of our cultural heritage.”"
See the Times article: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/james-bond-cartoons-that-caught-sean-connery-s-eye-2tnwr356c
See John McLusky's Bond drawings: www.agallery.uk/gallery/john_mclusky.php?pg=1
Fraser Scott hosts major Backstreet Boys Album Art Show in New York
A Gallery's sister company Album Artists hosted a major album art show for The Backstreet Boys in Manhatten, to support a hurricane relief charity. See: www.musictimes.com/articles/86 ... s-talks-nyc.htm
The Evening Standard & Independent Feature A Gallery's Show for Raoof Haghighi
Raoof Haghighi's dedication of his A Gallery exhibition "Painting is Like Breathing for Me" was carried in over a hundred news articles across England, including The Evening Standard and Independent as well as the UAE's The National.
THE INDEPENDENT: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/london-iran-persian-reading-adam-and-eve-b2304074.html
THE EVENING STANDARD: www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/persian-artist-raoof-haghighi-london-exhibition-iran-women-mahsa-amini-b1068432.html
Mila's Art Inspires World-Wide Super Hit - A Sky Full of Stars
A Gallery hung Mila Fürstová's "Other Skies IV" in Coldplay's London studio and it inspired Chris Martin's lyrics for A Sky Full of Stars, a world-wide super hit.
Coldplay asked Mila's permission for the artwork to be official inspiration for their video for The Hunger Games song Atlas, which has received 25 million views on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh3TokLzzmw
Blue Dream III, another of Mila's works which we hung there, inspired Chris Martin to dream up the idea for the album art for the world-wide number one hit album Ghost Stories - the wings in Mila's Blue Dream III reminded him of a broken heart, so he asked Mila to make her now iconic angel wings album art.
Pictured: Mila's Other Skies IV and Blue Dream III in Coldplay's studio.
Carlos Diniz's Walt Disney Concert Hall Drawing in University of California Museum
Carlos Diniz worked with legendary architect Frank Gehry over a fourty year perid, including on a series of drawings to help raise funds for the architectural masterpiece Walt Disney Concert Hall. The Carlos Diniz estate donated these drawings, along with 2,300 of Carlos Diniz's work which helped create the landscape of America, to the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The Killers Commission Paul Normansell for album and video art
A Gallery got Paul Normansell's art in GQ which was seen by The Killers' frontman Brandon Flowers, who then commissioned Paul Normansell to make their album art. Pauls' paintings of the 4 members of the band won Rolling Stone's Best Album Art of the Year Award, was nominated for the same by NME and MTV called it the Best Album Art of the Decade.
The Wikipedia on the album and single are here:
Day and Age: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_&_Age Human: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_(The_Killers_song)
(copyright info: This image is copyright of Universal Music and can only be used to illustrate a discussion of the music or art itself)