Stuck in Vermont 30: Got eBay?

5/31/07, Shelburne Museum's "Got eBay?":

"Got eBay? Celebrity Collections Created Online" is a new exhibit at Shelburne Museum from May 20 -- October 28, 2007.

8 celebrities were given $1000/each to curate their own show using items purchased on eBay. When the exhibit is over, the items will be re-sold on eBay.

Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888-1960) was a pioneering collector of American folk art and founded Shelburne Museum in 1947. She purchased about 120,000 art pieces in her lifetime and one can only wonder what she would have thought of eBay and how it might have affected her life as a collector.

The participants in Got eBay? are: Jerry Seinfeld (comedian), Bianca Jagger (humanitarian), Kevin LePage (racecar driver, NASCAR circuit), John Lurie (musician, artist, actor), Carter Foster (curator, Whitney Museum of American Art), Beth Rudin DeWoody (collector, real estate executive), Quy Nguyen and Fritz Karch (editors, Martha Stewart Living magazine), and Vermont Governor Jim Douglas.

Featured:
http://www.shelburnemuseum.org/

Music: Avi and Celia, "Bud n' Mary," Off the Floor
http://aviandcelia.com/index.cfm
http://www.myspace.com/aviandcelia

Location: Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT

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[anthonysprott]

I've bought so many things on Ebay. But the coolest thing is one that someone bought me from ebay as a birthday president was a blue lamp that was a prop in the movie Amelie signed by the cast and director.

[StuckinVermont]

Ooh good present! And happy belated birthday Tony! Loving the mix CD!

[pushover1]

Oh my god this illustrates why I have to get the fuck out of vt

[Suzbekistan]

Thanks Eva! My brother's always selling stuff on Ebay...I haven't evolved that much yet...