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• 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

• 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

• 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

• Rivers Rides Again!

  Wall Street Journal ARTSY SAG HARBOR IS UP IN ARMS ABOUT A LONG, SHAPELY PAIR OF LEGS

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  Posted In: Lifestyle on 10.23.2011

• 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

• Armory Arts Week Comes to NYC March 3 - 6, 2011

  Check out the Armory Arts week site to see what's happening all over New York City. Browse links for information on concurrent art fairs like Scope, Pulse, Volta, Fountain and The Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory or see what's happening at the museums and galleries.

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  Posted In: Museums, Lifestyle, Art Fairs, Art Events on 2.26.2011

• The Great Deitch Hope

  It's one thing to put on a wild and wonderful art show. It's quite another to have to sell the art. Kathy Grayson is learning that the hard way.

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  Posted In: Lifestyle, Gallery Feature on 2.24.2011