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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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 | Star-studded L.A. MOCA 30th Anniversary gala raises $3.5 million
Wall Street Journal Blogs - November 16th, 2009 18:37
Attended by artists such as Jeff Koons, and Hollywood stars including Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, a lavish benefit for the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art raised over $3.5 million on Sunday night. Famously on the verge of collapse less than a year ago, before a $30 million bail-out by billionaire-philanthropist Eli Broad, L.A. MOCA displayed its Rothkos, Warhols, and Pollocks and auctioned off a pink Damien Hirst-painted grand piano for $450,000 to art dealer Larry Gagosian after a ...Read more | |
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 | $7.5 million wine auction bullish on Burgundy
Bloomberg - November 16th, 2009 18:53
The world’s oldest charity wine auction, held every year in France for the Hospices de Beaune, Sunday night raised a hammer total of 5 million euros ($7.5 million) with fees, the second-highest in its 150-year history. Demand was boosted for the new vintage when a record 802 barrels were offered. Prices for the 654 lots of red wine were 31.1 percent higher than last year; whites, contributing 145 lots, were down 2.8 percent from 2008, said auctioneer Christie’s. A European ...Read more | |
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 | Bidders deem Madoff's stuff great holiday gifts, office decor
CNBC - November 16th, 2009 19:00
Bernard Madoff’s knick-knacks and personal effects raised about $1 million for his Ponzi scheme victims at a New York weekend auction. Ruth Madoff’s baubles were among the items that sold for the highest prices: an Edwardian-era diamond and emerald bracelet garnered $65,700. The ring buoy from Madoff’s yacht that said “Bullship, N.Y.” got $7,500 — 50 times the estimated sales price - and destined for a hedge funder's office.Read more | |
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 | Maxxi: Italy's new contemporary art museum
NPR 1 - November 16th, 2009 11:40
In the city of the ancient Romans and Michelangelo, architecture buffs got a preview over the weekend of something decidedly modern: Rome's new museum of contemporary art. It was designed by Iraqi-born Zaha Hadid. The Maxxi is a rare example of the avant-garde in what's known as the Eternal City. But the style Hadid seems most inspired by is baroque - fluid and sinuous forms, concave and convex spaces, and white curving lines that mysteriously disappear and reappear.Read more | |
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 | The American Art Fair
November 30 - December 3, 2009
To be held at the National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts
New York, New York
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