Peter Brant News
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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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A monumental Barnett Newman canvas fetched a record $43.8 million at a $294 million Sotheby’s auction last night, as contemporary art prices rose with stocks.
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Peter Brant, a one-time billionaire and an early patron of artist Andy Warhol, is using part of his contemporary art collection to help recapitalize the family newsprint business, according to state regulatory filings and people familiar with the matter.
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The head of a water buffalo, a blue Marilyn by Andy Warhol and various polo awards are among the trophies with which Peter Brant has decorated the library in his Greenwich, Connecticut, mansion. Only that isn’t where I am or what I’m seeing.
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Christie’s threw a party on the plaza of the Seagram Building Saturday night, next to the giant yellow Urs Fischer teddy bear it is auctioning on Wednesday, with an estimate of $10 million.
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As wet snow started falling around 11 p.m. yesterday, an art party was just ending at the Ace Hotel in Manhattan with the help of a performer who calls himself Jealous Orgasm.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. managing director Henry Cornell, at the Whitney Museum American Art Award dinner last night, talked about art and work.
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Washington Mutual Inc. told the bankruptcy judge in a court filing yesterday that the parties to the global settlement agreed to an extension of the confirmation deadline until Jan. 31.
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Billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad hasn’t made scheduled payments to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles because the institution has $2.1 million in grants it hasn’t put toward exhibitions.
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the city’s struggling Museum of Contemporary Art are exploring merger plans, quelling speculation that Eli Broad would step in and take over MOCA.
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