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Andy Warhol, Self-portrait, 1963-64. Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, via Christie's.

Warhol rules at $301.6 million Christie's sale
New York Times - May 12th, 2011 04:42

A bidding battle over a blue Andy Warhol sent the 1963-64 self-portrait to a final price of $38.4 million—well over the $30 million high estimate—at Christie's on Wednesday night. Bidders also confidently pursued Mark Rothko's “Untitled No. 17,” from 1961, to $33.6 million, above its $22 million high estimate. This previously unknown canvas has not yet been added to the Rothko catalogue raisonne (although it's been given the nod by Rothko expert David Anfam). Of the 65 works on ...

Whitney Museum of American Art. Photo: Flickr user Dom Dada

Metropolitan Museum and the Whitney Announce Collaborative Agreement for Breuer Building
Release Date: 12 May 2011
The directors of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art announced today that their boards of trustees have agreed in principle to a multiple-year collaboration projected to begin in 2015, when the Whitney opens its new museum facility on Gansevoort Street in ...

Charles H. Rathbone, Jr. opens at Martha Richardson Fine Art, Boston
Release Date: 12 May 2011
Martha Richardson Fine Art, Boston and Colleene Fesko Works of Art are pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of works by the Charles H. Rathbone, Jr. (1902-1936). The exhibition (May 14-June 25) includes paintings, watercolors and drawings done in Brittany and Martha’s Vineyard. ...

Roe Ethridge, Thanksgiving 1984, 2009. Private collection. Courtesy of Marc Jancou Contemporary and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York.

THE ASPEN ART MUSEUM PRESENTS 18-ARTIST 'THE ANXIETY OF PHOTOGRAPHY'
Release Date: 12 May 2011
Beginning with a soft opening and AAM Questrom Lecture Series discussion between exhibiting artist Mario Garcia Torres and exhibition curator/AAM Associate Curator Matthew Thompson at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday May 12, 2011, the Aspen Art Museum presents the group exhibition The Anxiety of Photography. ...

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