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The Week That Was (May 9 – 16, 2008)

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AUCTION REPORTS

Explosive Auction Week Culminates at Phillips

By Robert Ayers

No one expected Phillips to achieve the sorts of numbers seen at Sotheby's and Christie's this week, but the boutique firm achieved impressive results at last night's sale, further confirming the health of the art market.
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IN THE STUDIO

In the Studio: Ernesto Neto

By Dan Horch

Rio de Janeiro informs everything that the local artist Ernesto Neto creates.
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WEEKEND PICKS

Nan Hoover in Salzburg

By Robert Ayers

Though a native New Yorker who had solo shows at MoMA in 1977 and 1980, the 77-year-old Hoover has conducted most of her career in Europe.
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AUCTION REPORTS

Sotheby’s Contemporary Sale Smashes Records

By Judd Tully

A stunning group of postwar masterpieces from a storied German collection and a terrifying Francis Bacon triptych powered the house to its highest auction tally in history.
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ART TRENDS

Meet the Turner Contenders

By Jillian Steinhauer

This year's shortlist includes three women, one Brit, and no one working in traditional media.
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AUCTION REPORTS

Spectacular Results at Christie’s Contemporary Sale

By Judd Tully

The auction quashed speculation that the market’s in trouble.
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BOOKS

Myth Understood

By Peter Plagens

"Diego Rivera: The Complete Murals" reminds readers that despite the overshadowing of Rivera's work by his larger-than-life persona, he truly is one the greats.
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NEWSMAKER

Leng Lin on Pace Beijing

By Kris Wilton

A Chinese insider interprets an American brand.
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  Todays News
Movers+Shakers
Asian Import
The latest sign that contemporary Korean art is gaining serious ground in the West is the Seoul-based Gana Art taking up residence in Manhattan’s Chelsea.
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Comings & Goings
Robert Rauschenberg Dies at 82
Also, Garry Garrels returns to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Datebook
Ferrari Capital
Among the lots hitting the block in RM Auctions’ second annual Ferrari Leggende e Passione auction on May 18 are two of the most desirable cars of the late 1950s and early ’60s.
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Datebook
Home, Sweet Home
Chicago auction house Wright is offering Louis Kahn's Esherick House, in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania (est. $2–3 million), a rare example of a residential work by the influential architect.
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Art Parties
Awards Season
City arts organizations handed out statues to a number of big names over the past two weeks.
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In the Air
On the Short List
Rumor has it that Frieze copublisher and art fair cofounder Matthew Slotover ranks high on the Dia Art Foundation's list of nominees for director.
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Datebook
Gray Area
The Essl Museum of Contemporary Art stages “Overlapping Voices,” an exhibition presenting 16 varying perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by artists from both groups.
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Datebook
Talent Show
As part of UK/Japan 2008, Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum joins with the Tate to organize “History in the Making: A Retrospective of the Turner Prize.”
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Movers+Shakers
Art of the Diehl
Berlin gallerist Volker Diehl is bringing his program to Russia with Diehl + Gallery One, Moscow’s first and only Western gallery.
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Art Parties
Superstars and Superheroes
The art world has finally caught on to the superhero craze.
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Datebook
International Flair
Contemporary art fairs may be stealing the spotlight these days, but for historical material, collectors and museums look forward each May to the International Fine Art Fair.
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