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Acquavella To Show Wynn's Damaged Picasso

By Bloomberg News
September 29, 2008

A $139 million Picasso painting damaged by billionaire owner Stephen Wynn when he somehow poked his elbow through it will be publicly shown for the first time since the 2006 mishap.

China's new rich in $256 million auction

Art Deco Shows Its Roots

Modular Modernism Reborn

Fleming, Mattila, and Damrau Ignite the Opera Season

London Street-Art Auction Disappoints

Those Who Can, Teach

Bring Back the Venetian Lollipops

The Magical From the Mundane

By LANCE ESPLUND

Woody Allen Makes Opera Debut

A Visit to the Venice Biennale of Architecture

Reading Between the Linens: Cecily Brown at Gagosian Gallery

Rare Female Portrait by Francis Bacon Up for Sale

Six Centuries of Theatrical City Scenes at N-YHS

Great-Granddaughters To Lead Wagner Festival

Monet Thief Sentenced to Five Years

Director: Half of Gagosian's Sales Are to Russians

Elton John's Brooch Up for Sale

Rem Koolhaas's Lou Costello Tower

Munch's 'Vampire' Heads to Auction

Armstong Officially Elevated by Guggenheim Foundation

Frozen Instants of Failure

Fantastical Form in TriBeCa: Herzog & de Meuron's 56 Leonard St.

Victorian Never Looked So Good

Sotheby's to Sell Works From a Neglected Field

Titian Showcased in Athens

The Conceptual Provocateur: Rirkrit Tiravanija

A Park Avenue Tower Stands Corrected

Christie's Adds $130M Fall Auction

Pompeii Transported to Washington, D.C.

The Origins of Abstraction: 'Order and Intuition'

Jerusalem's Hip, Historic 'Hood'

What Treasures Hide in Dusty Piles

Painting's Post-Feminist Form & Sculpture's Matron Saint

Hirst's Shark Sells for $17m at Auction

At 150, Central Park Is a Perfectly Balanced Masterpiece

Van Gogh in a New Light

Sotheby's Stands Tall With Hirst

Robert Bordo, the Heady Hedonist

The Little Elephant That Could: 'Drawing Babar'

Sotheby's Stock Falls Prior to Hirst Sale

Small but Sumptuous: The Watercolors of Romare Bearden

Morandi's Subtle Spectacle

By LANCE ESPLUND

Damien Hirst's Fear of Failure

An Auspicious Launch for New York's Haunch of Venison

Note to Museumgoers: Beware Spectacular Sensory Overload

By LANCE ESPLUND

Freud's Bacon Portrait Could Fetch $12M

Trevor Winkfield, the Conceptual Collagist

Wall Street Woes Endanger Funding for the Arts

Pledges by Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch Are Now Uncertain

By KATE TAYLOR

Bits and Pieces Brought Together: Ashbery and Naves

Christie's Will Have Dedicated Contemporary Design Sale

Picasso Show To Highlight Influences

Report: Hirst Auction Critical To Market Confidence

Germans, Russians in Art Stalemate

Taking It From the Streets

Landscapes as Labors of Love: Wang Hui at the Met

By LANCE ESPLUND

Versailles 'Welcomes' Koons

When the Virtual Trumps Reality: 'The Prayer Book of Claude de France'

Tearing Down the Walls of Their World: MoMA's 'Looking at Music'

Commanding the Romantic Century: 'Liszt in Paris'

A Gray Area From a Red Revolution

By LANCE ESPLUND

Tate Unveils Acquisitions, Exhibition Schedule

Guggenheim Eyes Armstrong as Its Director

By KATE TAYLOR

Museum of Arts & Design Thinks Outside the Box

By KATE TAYLOR

Rubin Museum Finds a New Focus

By KATE TAYLOR

Hirst Dealer: No 'Mountain' of Unsold Works

Political Ephemera Through the Ages

The Art World Embraces the Wow Factor

By LANCE ESPLUND

To Venice: Some Unsolicited Advice

Venice's Famed Piazza San Marco Could Use Some Focus