News featuring Madonna
The following news stories mention Madonna. Stories are compiled from a hand-picked selection of popular music news sites based in Great Britain, Europe and the United States. Updated less than 9 hours ago.
’13 May 8 Wed
Wednesday 8th May
“Madonna sells Leger painting for $7.2 million”
Madonna has sold her Fernand Leger painting for $7.2 million - which she will give to charity.The 'Girls Gone Wild' hitmaker first bought the Cubist...
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“Madonna Leaves Little To The Imagination In Punk Get Up At Met Gala 2013”
Madonna went all out at the PUNK: Chaos to Couture exhibition during the Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She...
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“Impressionist and modern art works fetch $230m at Sotheby's – in pictures”
Works from the collection of Alex and Elisabeth Lewyt sell for $88.6m at a New York auction, while a painting from Madonna's collection fetches $7.2m with proceeds going to her Ray of Light Foundation
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“Madonna Sells Abstract Painting For $7 Million”
Pop superstar Madonna generated $7.2 million (£4.6 million) for charity by auctioning off a painting by French cubist artist Fernand Leger on...
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“Madonna's French painting sells in NYC for $7.2M”
NEW YORK (AP) — A French painting owned by Madonna has sold at a New York City auction for more than $7 million.
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’13 May 7 Tue
Tuesday 7th May
“Beyonce, Madonna, Psy Go Punk At Met Gala”
MTV News checks in with gala-goers like Miguel and Karlie Kloss to get their take on 'punk.'
By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Maude Deitch
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’13 May 6 Mon
Monday 6th May
“Madonna Auctioning Off Fernand Leger Painting For Charity”
Madonna is expected to raise at least $5 million (£3.13 million) for charity by auctioning off a painting by French cubist artist Fernand Leger.The...
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“Club 8 – “I’m Not Gonna Grow Old””
Where Club 8′s first single from their forthcoming LP Above The City “Stop Taking My Time” pushed them into icier Italo climes, “I’m Not Gonna Grow Old” is a warm slice of Madonna. Very specifically: “Holiday” with a tiny side of “Material World.” This is not music-crit flexing and straining for reference points; this is [...]
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’13 May 4 Sat
Saturday 4th May
“What I see in the mirror: Sophie Ellis-Bextor”
'I didn't feel attractive as a teenager and boys were never interested in me. In a way it was a blessing…'
How I look is pretty much based on how much sleep I've had. I have three young children and my four-year-old, the middle one, is an early bird. When I do get to look in the mirror, I'll sometimes put on a bit of makeup – mascara, blusher and tinted lip balm.
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’13 May 3 Fri
Friday 3rd May
“Ziggyology by Simon Goddard – review”
The latest chapter in the history of Bowieology sets out to identify Ziggy Stardust's true antecedents and legacy
"Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual." This is David Bowie, back in 1973, a couple of decades before he was writing 8,000-word articles about Balthus and Julian Schnabel for Modern Painters. But the one-time ad agency employee, seasoned veteran of underachieving bands such as the Konrads, Riot Squad and folk trio Feathers, and voracious acquirer and skimmer of books (he once described himself as "a born librarian with a sex drive") understood early on that one of the best ways to generate mystique was to deny that it existed. "It was just the songs and the trousers," he later claimed. "That's what sold Ziggy."
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