Picasso’s “Nude on a Black Armchair,” which he painted in one day, sold at auction for $45 million in New York. The art market roars back to life. New York Times
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JIMMY & DOUG’S FARM CLUB
New Seagram website encourages musicians worldwide to upload their music to site for critique by label execs and fans. – Variety
GHOSTSITES
Dead websites drift in cyberspace like so much internet debris. A lost culture, a navigational hazard. LA Weekly
OLIPHANT ON GIULIANI
Cartoonist imagines how great artists would have portrayed New York mayor in their work. Artnet.com
DIGITAL DEMOCRACY
Hollywood is going digital at breakneck speed. What the revolution means to you. LA Weekly
“FIGHT CLUB” opens in Britain –
– but not until after censors cut two scenes. BBC
FALLING MARBLE
Last week a big section of marble fell from the ceiling of the Medici Chapel in Florence. The chapel’s stone has eroded and the structure has now been closed. The Italian press calls it a disaster. ARTnewspaper.com
A MONET FOR $22.5 MILLION
Latest round of art auctions begins in New York. New York Times
ANOTHER NAZI ART CLAIM
Two sisters in North Carolina make claim on a 16th Century Madonna. CBC
NEW JEWISH MUSEUM opens in Berlin –
– ten years after the wall comes down. It’s “one of the city’s most striking new structures.” A talk with the architect Daniel Libeskind. CBC