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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On

Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On

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  A Banksy mural is heading to auction early next year. The catch? The buyer must purchase the entire building upon which Well Hung Lover was painted by the anonymous street artist.   Banksy’s Well Hung Lover Heads to Auction Well Hung Lover by Banksy, 2006. Source: Adrian Langtry/CNN.   In 2006, Banksy painted Well Hung Lover on the side of a sexual health clinic in Bristol, England. It depicts a naked man hanging from an open window. Another man, dressed in a suit and standing next to a woman in underwear, looks out the window, seemingly unaware of his partner’s dangling lover. This Banksy mural is technically the United Kingdom’s first legal piece of street art after a survey by the Bristol City Council granted permission retrospectively. Well Hung Lover was defaced by a paintball gun in 2009, after which the City Council partially restored the mural. It was defaced again in 2018 with black spray paint.   The sexual health clinic has since relocated from the building with the Banksy mural. Now, Bristol real estate agent Hollis …

Banksy Mural Will to be Sold with the Building It is Painted on

Banksy Mural Will to be Sold with the Building It is Painted on

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A Banksy mural of a man hanging out of a bedroom window as he tries to evade his love rival is being sold at auction with the building it is painted on. Titled Well Hung Lover, it was painted on the wall of a sexual health clinic in Bristol, UK, in 2006. Banksy, who is from the city, said he wasn’t aware of the building’s coincidental use at the time. Real estate agent Hollis Morgan is auctioning the property – and therefore the artwork – with a new 250-year lease next year. The Grade II-listed Georgian building has five floors and is located close to Bristol Cathedral and the University of Bristol. A nightclub operates in the basement. Hollis Morgan is promoting the property’s potential to be converted into student apartments. As for the fate of the artwork, the real estate agent pointed to the fact that Bristol city council has no official policy on street art, no matter who it is by. “It is recognised that street art is created not as a permanent work of …

Royal Hotel on IoW sold through Christie & Co

Royal Hotel on IoW sold through Christie & Co

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The independently owned and successful ‘Royal Hotel’ on the south coast of the Isle of Wight has been sold, via Christie & Co. The hotel in Ventnor was built in 1832 and features 51-ensuite bedrooms, an extensive bar and a restaurant with panoramic sea views over the English Channel. It has been independently owned and operated by William Bailey since 1994, who has been responsible for upgrading the facilities and significantly widening its customer base. The hotel has numerous accolades including a four-silver-star 2023 AA hotel accreditation and a 2023 AA two Rosette award for culinary excellence. William Bailey, said: “Whilst it is of course sad to have sold a business with which we have been involved for almost 30 years, now is the right time to step back. “We wish the new owners every success during their ownership of this great and profitable hotel in a picturesque location on the Isle of Wight. Most importantly we would like to thank the staff, with whom we have shared this memorable journey, for their hard work …

West Sussex site with permission for 80-bed care home sold to developer

West Sussex site with permission for 80-bed care home sold to developer

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A development site in West Sussex which comes with planning permission for a care home has been sold for an undisclosed price. The site spans 1.31 acres and is located north of the coastal village of Pagham. The care home scheme, delivered by Frontier Estates, comprises an 80-bedroom property with 100 per cent en suite wet rooms and a private patio terrace for each resident. Accommodation will be spread across three wings and two and a half storeys, surrounded by secure landscaped gardens. Following a confidential sales process with Sara Hartill at Christie & Co, the site and scheme have been purchased by Scotland’s Simply Develop UK, which plans to open the home in the first quarter of 2026.  Harriet Spain, development manager at Frontier Estates, said: “Frontier was delighted to secure this site due to its excellent prominence and ideal demographics. “The wider Pagham market continues to demonstrate robust potential, making this location particularly promising for this new care development. “We’d like to extend our thanks to Christie & Co and Simply Develop UK …

The conservatives who sold their souls for Trump

The conservatives who sold their souls for Trump

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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Today, Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review (the flagship conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley Jr.), published an article claiming that Donald Trump could win the 2024 election “on character.” No, really. But bear with me; the headline wasn’t quite accurate. Trump could beat Kamala Harris, Lowry wrote, not by running on his character but by attacking hers. According to Lowry, you see, one of Trump’s “talents as a communicator is sheer repetition, which, when he’s on to something that works, attains a certain power.” Thus, he argued, Trump could hammer Harris into the ground if he called her “weak” enough times—50 times a day ought to do it, according to Lowry—and especially if he gave her a funny nickname, like the ones he managed to stick on “Crooked Hillary” Clinton and “Little Marco” Rubio. All of …

How ‘eunuch maker’ livestreamed extreme body modifications and sold body parts | UK news

How ‘eunuch maker’ livestreamed extreme body modifications and sold body parts | UK news

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Marius Theodore Gustavson had just performed one of his signature procedures in his basement flat when a stranger turned up to buy a penis. The man known as the “eunuch maker” retrieved a jar from a small fridge behind his living room sofa before handing it to the buyer, who paid in cash before leaving. It was yet another deal for Gustavson, the mastermind behind a lucrative website where subscribers could watch videos of extreme body modifications such as castrations and penectomies. Gustavson’s former friend Andrew recalled: “My partner and I were there when a sale went down. We’d never asked about the fridge before but when [Gustavson] walked off with what looked [like something] a bit dodgy, we asked and he said: ‘Oh yes, this is someone’s penis, [it belongs to] this nice little twentysomething from Belgium.’ “But he didn’t come back in with lots of cash. He used the money to buy pizza. It wasn’t a lot.” Gustavson, 46, originally from Norway, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 22 …

What is Manor Lords? The medieval city-building game that sold a million copies in a single day | Games

What is Manor Lords? The medieval city-building game that sold a million copies in a single day | Games

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Launched as if from a trebuchet at the end of April, Manor Lords is the latest in a string of explosively successful video games that have been released this year. Indeed, the rise of this unassuming-looking city-builder is arguably more impressive than the enormous launch of Helldivers 2, or the breakout Poker phenomenon Balatro. Developed largely by one person and releasing in an incomplete state, Manor Lords shifted a million copies in its first 24 hours on sale. The scale of Manor Lords’ success is remarkable, but contrary to appearances, it hasn’t emerged from nowhere. Momentum around the game has been building for years, part of a broader surge in popularity for city-building games in general. There’s also more to Manor Lords than meets the eye, as its mundane medieval exterior hides a richly detailed, tangible simulation of feudal life. What is Manor Lords? It’s a city-builder, the latest in a long line of games traceable all the way back to 1989’s SimCity, with more modern examples including 2015’s Cities: Skylines. These games involve building …

Over 16,000 pounds of ground beef sold at Walmart recalled due to E. coli risk

Over 16,000 pounds of ground beef sold at Walmart recalled due to E. coli risk

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The recalled beef products above were produced on April 26 and April 27. U.S. Department of Agriculture hide caption toggle caption U.S. Department of Agriculture The recalled beef products above were produced on April 26 and April 27. U.S. Department of Agriculture Over 16,000 pounds of ground beef produced by Cargill Meat Solutions and sold at Walmart have been recalled due to concerns of a possible E. coli contamination. The contaminated beef was produced on April 26 and April 27 and distributed to Walmart stores throughout the eastern U.S., according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. So far, there have been no confirmed reports of illness linked to the beef products, USDA said. Cargill said it launched a voluntary recall out “of an abundance of caution.” The Pennsylvania-based food distributor became concerned of a possible contamination after discovering that “previously segregated product had been inadvertently utilized in the production of ground beef,” the agency said. The ground beef has been sold at Walmart locations in Connecticut, Washington, D.C., Massachusetts, Maryland, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, …

Frank Auerbach painting seized from money launderer to be sold by NCA | Frank Auerbach

Frank Auerbach painting seized from money launderer to be sold by NCA | Frank Auerbach

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A Frank Auerbach painting estimated to be worth several million pounds is to be sold by the National Crime Agency after it was recovered from a convicted money launderer who worked for organised criminal gangs, including drug traffickers. The work was seized by police after Lenn Mayhew-Lewis, 69, went on the run in March 2023 after being convicted of money laundering, with an investigation discovering that he had also bought a painting by Auerbach in a private sale. The painting – Albert Street, 2009 oil on canvas, 112 x 122cm – is part of Auerbach’s long-running series that depicts a street in Camden Town, north London, where the artist – widely regarded as one of Britain’s greatest living painters – has been based for many decades. The NCA said that they believed that after the painting was bought by Mayhew-Lewis it was then used by another individual as collateral to secure a “£5m loan from a UK auction house”. Mayhew-Lewis has been on the run since failing to appear at a sentencing hearing a year …

Most brain monitors sold to consumers don’t keep your data private

Most brain monitors sold to consumers don’t keep your data private

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Many brain-monitoring headsets and other neurotech devices are available for commercial use Chrissshe (CC-BY SA 4.0) Many makers of brain-monitoring headsets and other consumer neurotechnology devices may be playing fast and loose with their privacy and data-sharing policies. An analysis of these companies’ policies shows many gather users’ neural data and maintain the right to share or sell the information without additional permission from users. The findings come from a report by the Neurorights Foundation, a research organisation based in New York. The foundation looked at 30 companies that sell neurotech devices or services… Source link