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• NEW WORLD AUCTION RECORDS WERE ESTABLISHED: FOR MILTON AVERY, WILLIAM KEITH, IRVING RAMSEY WILES

  Sotheby's American Art Auction totals $28.1 million in New York.

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  Posted In: Auction, Art News on 5.29.2013

• Beardenmania

  Art News - by Gail Gregg The sight was a curator's dream. Carla Hanzal, curator of contemporary art at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, looked in at her exhibition "Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections" on closing day to find the...

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  Posted In: Museums, Art News, Art Events on 7.21.2012

• 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

• 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

• David Hockney: aged 74, the painter is as prolific (and perverse) as ever

  On the eve of a new Royal Academy exhibition, Martin Gayford - the writer who knows him best - profiles Britain's greatest living artist.

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  Posted In: Exhibitions, Art News, Gallery Feature, Art Events on 1.2.2012

• A Supercharged FIAC Returns to Paris, Surprising Dealers With Fierce Competition and Million-Dollar Sales

  Has FIAC beaten out Frieze to take second place on the podium of the world's contemporary art fairs, nipping at the heels of the granddaddy of them all, Art Basel? Opening at the Grand Palais on Wednesday to VIPs, the Paris fair saw a long-absent first-hour rush for works -- leaving dealers to be somewhere between gobsmacked, elated, and irked by a controversy over early access to the event's crème de la crème.

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  Posted In: Art News, Lifestyle, Art Fairs, Art Events on 10.21.2011

• Christie's Once Again Defies the Market, Pulling Off a $60 Million Triumph in Its London Contemporary Art Sale

  After a rocky week of auction sales and art-fair activity, Christie's postwar and contemporary evening sale sounded an unmistakably triumphant blast for the art market Friday, realizing £38,070,350 ($59,998,872), whisker-close to the £39.4 million high estimate. Forty-seven of the 53 lots sold for a crisp 11 percent buy-in rate by lot and eight percent by value. Seven artist records were set, one work sold for over £10 million ($15.7 million), and ten hurdled the million pound mark ($1.6 million). Fifteen of those 47 lots sold for over a million dollars.

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  Posted In: Auction, Art News, Art Events on 10.21.2011