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Top 10 most expensive works of art sold at auction - in pictures.

Edvard Munch's The Scream set a new record for art auction sales at Sotheby's in New York on Tuesday when it was sold for $119.9m (£74m). Click Here to follow link.

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15 days ago
Jackson Pollock, "The Flame". Courtesy: Hoood Museum of Art.

Heat of History: Art Review: "Men of Fire: José Clemente Orozco and Jackson Pollock," Hood Museum of Art.

By Kevin James (Vermont's Seven Days News). Before the drip came the flame. Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) stakes his claim to being one of the greatest American painters of the 20th century mainly on the basis of the king-size canvases he...

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15 days ago
Janet Lehr's Art Market Recap

AIPAD's gala opening built quickly to a crowded crescendo last evening. Dealers reported healthy sales on works of 19th, 20th and 21st century artists as disparate as Edward Steichen, Carleton Watkins, Irving Penn, Man Ray and Vic Muniz. It's an exhibition, where all the works are for sale. It's certainy worth a special trip into the city. The exhibition, at the 67th Street Armory in NYC runs until 6pm this Sunday.

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Posted In: Art Fairs on 3.29.2012
Matisse - Woman with hat

The Stein's Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde. Metropolitan Museum Feb 23 - June 3, 2012.

In 1905, Leo Stein saw his first Picasso drawing at a furniture store. He bought 2 large paintings by the artist soon afterward. That Fall, Leo and Gertrude, to become the most famous collecting brother and sister of the 20th century, bought Matisse's Woman with Hat - 1905. The American, Leo Stein, then living in France with his sister Gertrude, wrote a friend of his recent purchases, "My recent accessions are unfortunately by people you never have heard of so there is no use trying to describe them. He had purchased "a work that had made everybody laugh plus 2 pictures by a young Spaniard named Picasso whom I consider a genius of great magnitude."

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Posted In: Museums, Exhibitions on 3.24.2012
MoMA

Cindy Sherman Unmasked

That tantalizing sense of mystery and uneasiness are similar emotions viewers feel when they see one of Ms. Sherman's elliptical photographs. Over the course of her remarkable 35-year career she has transformed herself into hundreds of different...

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Posted In: Museums, Exhibitions on 2.25.2012
Janet Lehr

Board Considers If 'Legs' Should Take a Hike

Zoning Board of Appeals has hearing on whether Larry Rivers' "Legs" displayed on Vered Gallery owners' house is a nonconforming accessory structure. By Debbie Tuma

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Posted In: Art News, Lifestyle on 2.22.2012
Controversy over Larry Rivers Legs sculpture continues

The controversy continues. An official notice citing a public hearing on the installation of the Larry Rivers sculpture, Legs, at the Sag Harbor Building Department, Tuesday Feb. 21 at 6:30p in Sag Harbor's Town Hall. The saga of the 16 foot...

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2.13.2012
Illustration by Kerrie Leishman

Sculpture on its last legs

By Charles Waterstreet. The Sidney Morning Herald, January 15 2012. THE New York modern art world, as we know it, will officially end on January 22. The Sag Harbour village zoning board of appeals has ruled that a five-metre tall, deliciously naughty sculpture of a woman's legs be finally parted - from its owners. For now, the Larry Rivers piece is mounted appropriately on the front lawn of art lovers Ruth Vered and Janet Lehr.

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Posted In: Lifestyle on 1.21.2012
Courtesy of the NYTimes.com

Legs That Go On and On, but Maybe Not for Long

Of the sassy pair of female legs in retro stockings stepping out into Sag Harbor's historic district, one can say this: The legs are 16 feet tall, are made of fiberglass and stand on the side of a home that used to be the Bethel Baptist Church. They were constructed by the artist Larry Rivers, who still manages to delight and offend from the grave. Some people love them as the irreverent embodiment of the rare Hamptons village with a sense of humor and values that transcend dollar signs. Some people hate them as the embodiment of too-cool Manhattanites and art snobs who should have more respect for Sag Harbor's fishing village past. And after more than two years of pondering weighty issues of art, taste and land-use law, the village has ordered that they be taken down by Sunday in a classic East End kerfuffle revolving around art, zoning law and the still-charged reputation of the artist buried a few miles away.

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Posted In: Art News, Lifestyle, Gallery Feature on 1.20.2012
This week in Palm Beach the Hamptons' celebrate a host of their finest

Palm Beach the Hamptons' celebrates a host of their finest - Henry Buhl, Joe Cohen, Ray Merritt and Janet Lehr, lenders to FULL OF GRACE, a photography exhibition opening Thursday, January 26th at The Palm Beach Photographic Center, 515 Clematis St. WPB. Pre-opening event kick-off at the Center is a panel discussion Wednesday Jan 25th beginning at 10:30 am, by the photography curators of the Getty Museum, the Norton Museum and Vered Gallery's Janet Lehr.

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Posted In: Exhibitions, Lifestyle, Art Events on 1.28.2012