Julie Mehretu News
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Colored papers, draperies and packages are some of the unusual subjects explored by realist painter Claudio Bravo in a show spanning the years 1936 to 2011 at Manhattan’s Marlborough Gallery.
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Records were smashed for Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and auctions themselves as Christie’s sold $495 million of contemporary art last night in New York.
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Bidders snubbed a six-foot wide turquoise 1993 Damien Hirst cabinet, estimated to fetch as much as $1.2 million at the Lehman and Neuberger Berman art liquidation sale held in New York on Saturday.
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The American Academy in Berlin said it raised 1 million euros ($1.3 million) at an art benefit auction to fund visits by distinguished artists from the U.S. to the German capital.
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Joseph Perella had his smart phone out last night at the Studio Museum in Harlem gala, showing a photograph of Raymond McGuire’s newborn son, Leo, when Mom one- upped him.
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Choreographer Merce Cunningham sits in a wheelchair, directing his dance troupe in the vast Craneway Pavilion, a former Ford assembly plant overlooking San Francisco Bay.
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Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. , the investment bank liquidating in bankruptcy, may reap more than $10 million from an art sale at Sotheby’s this fall, including a Julie Mehretu painting estimated to fetch a near 40-fold profit.
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Blockbuster Inc. Chief Executive Officer James Keyes said he will evaluate “every single store” in the video-rental chain as it reorganizes to compete with competitors that provide movies online and by mail.
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Andy Warhol ’s painting of a Coca- Cola bottle sold for $35.4 million at Sotheby’s yesterday, making the artist the star of New York’s contemporary art auctions for two nights running as the market recovers slowly from a slump.
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At the Whitney Museum of American Art’s fall gala last night, the honoree was not an artist, a financier or a celebrity. It was Calvin Tomkins, who has profiled 95 artists for the New Yorker magazine.
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