Arts Digest: Picasso Leads $111 Mil Sotheby's London Sale, Art Ripoff Roundup, Paul Thek Q&A, Battle Over 9/11 Sculpture, and More

Daily Arts Digest Wednesday, February 9, 2011 ADVERTISEMENT Picasso's Radiant Muse Inspired Some — But Not All — Bidders at Sotheby's $111 Million London Sale The portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter fetched $40.7 million in a mixed Impressionist-and-Modern kickoff to the auction season. by Judd Tully | Auction Reports View Slide Show Slide Show of the Day The Palm Beach Art Fair Played to America's Leisurely Tycoons With a Glittering Array of Paintings and Design ADVERTISEMENT Rihanna Rips Off David LaChapelle, Morgan Spurlock Copies the Art Guys, and More Must-Read News (That We Took From Other Sources) by ARTINFO | The Daily Checklist The Forgotten Man: A Q&A With Curator Elisabeth Sussman About Paul Thek and His Decades-Long Disappearance by Andrew M. Goldstein | The AI Interview View Slide Show European Corporation Enters Battle Over 9/11 Sculpture's Fate by ARTINFO | Arts Policy Our Favorite Facebook Post "How many New Yorkers have never visited the Statue of Liberty?" -- in reaction to Does L.A. Care If the Watts Towers Are Saved? Our Favorite Tweet "The Gehry-designed "cloud of glass" museum for collector Bernard Arnault is grounded by a French judge: http://bit.ly/dNShbB" -- from "Philistines!": Frank Gehry and Jean Nouvel Lash Out at Parisians After a Museum Is Delayed Modern Art Notes by Tyler Green Sally Mann's people (and battlefields?) at VMFA LACM on Fire by William Poundstone Mystery Spot: Julian Hoeber's "Demon Hill" The Secret History of Art by Noah Charney Inside the Masterpiece: Pieter Bruegel's "Tower of Babel" ABOUT THIS EMAIL You have received this email because you registered with ARTINFO. To change any of your user information please sign in here. If you would like to stop receiving the daily newsletter, unsubscribe junaldpogi.maggots@blogger.com from this list. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MAGAZINES | ADVERTISE | CHANGE YOUR EMAIL | PRIVACY POLICY | CONTACT Delivered by ARTINFO - Copyright © 2011, Louise Blouin Media. All rights reserved.