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MONTAUK, N.Y. — Those who see Bernard Madoff as an evil purveyor of excess might be disappointed by his beach house: It's not that palatial. At 3,014 square feet, the home is cottage-size by superrich standards. Its faded furnishings look as old as Madoff's epic fraud. There's no garage. Not even a walk-in closet. But the 1.2-acre lot sits closer to ...

Profits are down at Sotheby’s and Christie’s, but business in their private sales departments has doubled. Selling privately is very attractive now since it is quick, confidential, and avoids the inherent production costs and time delay of selling at auction. Carol Vogel wrote an article in The New York Times,“More Artworks Sell in Private in Slowdown,” that captured this rising trend ...

With sales and customers harder to come than in the past, it can be easy to lose grasp on what we have to be grateful for, especially those of us with easy Internet access and leisure time to peruse it. Let's take a moment to be grateful for the abundance that comes to us in ways beyond our material lives.

When I was still in college studying graphic design, Professors and guest professors taught me problem solving skills and design theories that helped me create better design. I thank them. There is one tip, however, that has had the most impact on me. It actually influences the way I work even now: pick the most interesting idea, concentrate on it and ...

LYNCHBURG, VA - First Fridays is back. After a quiet August, most of the Hill City's galleries are returning from their summer hiatuses with a roster of interesting shows that should keep your Friday jam-packed. John Morgan's Rivermont Gallery will feature an installation, ceramic and copper sculptures and mixed media drawings from Gordonsville artist Aggie Zed, as well as abstract color ...

Religious texts have inspired artist of all media for thousands of years. R. Crumb, a famous comic artist, has created a new illustrated Book of Genesis. It is a creative work within the graphic novel genre, however the story may be a familiar one to you. What do your think of his work? See how he has illustrated the Book of ...

SAGAMORE BEACH, MA -- As students of the new Bournedale Elementary School entered the building yesterday for the first day of school, they were greeted in the lobby by an alligator. Perched on a flower petal, the pastel-colored reptile wears red heels, lipstick and a cartoon-like smile -- the centerpiece of a sculpture hand-crafted by local artist Alfred Glover that also ...

Paris, FR—If its name is irrefutably, drolly straightforward, the Nouveau Festival’s program — as glimpsed during its opening days last week — is anything but. The opening night of the Centre Pompidou’s new five-week art and performance festival (timed to coincide with the ever-elegant FIAC) included an orchestra of accordionists outfitted in theatrical black eye masks; a guitarist in a black-and-gold ...

New York, NY - In 2006, Art+Auction magazine ran an article on the most pressing matters in art law. Lawyer Peter Stern weighed in that the most prevalent disputes he saw in his own practice, in terms of litigation, were those over title. Perhaps not coincidentally, that was the same year ARIS Insurance began offering what is now the only program ...

Orphan Works: A Lame Duck Countdown, Part III 215 Letters Nearly 300 million people live in the US. How many of them does it take to make an “orphan works problem”? Apparently 215 (give or take a few). That’s the only conclusion we can draw from the Report on Orphan Works released by the Copyright Office in 2006. In their testimony ...

HOLLYWOOD, FL - Nearly seven years after Hollywood secured a $5 million grant from Broward County to help launch the ArtsPark, the innovative downtown park has yet to reach its potential and will cost twice the initial estimate to complete. An amphitheater, central to the park's blueprint, has yet to be built. A green light from city commissioners Wednesday could move ...

New York, NY —“A party with Jennifer Rubell can happen anywhere, any time, and at a moment’s notice,” renowned chef Mario Batali has been quoted as saying. “She’s the perfect modern hostess.” On Oct. 30, to open the Performa 09 performance art biennial, Rubell will be displaying that skill on a scale that maybe not even Batali could imagine. [widget:artinfo] As ...

The Copyright Office received about 215 relevant letters to their Orphan Works Study. From this they deduced a claim of widespread market failure in commercial markets and concluded that government should "incentivize" creators to register their work with for-profit registries as a condition of protecting their copyrights. Officially, this goal is expressed benignly on page 106 of the Copyright Office's Report ...

Grants are a great boon to artists. They can help you reach your career goals. The money awarded from grants can support you while you work on a specific project. Do you have a great idea, but cannot afford to make your work? This is what grants are for. There are travel grants to enable you do research for you work. ...

Zürich kicks off its fall gallery season with three days of summery pursuits.

You have heard of the Orphan Works Bill that has passed in the House of Representatives, but what is going on now with the bill during this Lame Duck Session of Congress? This is an inititive that takes away artists (defined broadly) automatic rights to the work that they create. Under this bill individuals would have to register every work in ...

The artist claims the socialite showed up hours after a scheduled meeting and took his artwork without paying.

The artist will be honored at a ceremony in New York next month.

The art fair’s major sponsor is declining to renew the partnership, perhaps in an effort to dissociate itself from the luxury sector.

Two decades after the artist’s death, the Andy Warhol brand is stronger than ever, as collectors continue to pay top prices for his work, curators study obscure aspects of his career, and consumers snap up products—from candy to condoms—plastered with his imagery by Eileen Kinsella