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Penn Badgley

Penn Badgley

Gossip Girl star Penn Badgley was among the stars who turned out for the opening night feast of Performa 09, which runs through November 22.

Performa 09: Food for Thought

Performa 09: Food for Thought

Presumably, artist and party planner Jennifer Rubell rested after reinterpreting the story of creation at a benefit for Performa 09, New York’s three-week biennial of performance art. The festivities took place on three floors of the X Initiative in Chelsea, bringing in nearly 600 guests including artist Cindy Sherman, David Byrne, Alan Cumming ...

Lost Warhol

Lost Warhol

If ever there was incentive to finally clean out your closet, it’s Cathy Naso—the former part-time receptionist at Andy Warhol’s Factory recently found a self-portrait of the famed pop artist in a forgotten closet after 40 years. Sotheby’s will auction off the print that Warhol ...

Madoff Scheme

Madoff Scheme

Ads have been appearing in local newspapers across the country promoting “Bernie Madoff Auction” sales, promoting art by Peter Max, Salvador Dalí, and Norman Rockwell as a result of the Ponzi schemer’s financial losses. But auction attendees have since learned what’s been billed as a Madoff auction may actually just be another scam. “They all thought it was Madoff ...

Caravaggio

Caravaggio

Renaissance master Caravaggio may have put a little bit of himself into his work as new technology reveals a miniature self-portrait hidden in his famous 1597 painting of Bacchus. The image revealed itself in the ...

Degas Sale

Degas Sale

Christie’s Impressionist and modern art sale on November 3 may have been a disappointment, but a painting by Degas brought in a half-million dollars more than its $9 million high estimate. Ken Yeh, deputy chairman of Chrisite’s in Asia, took in the winning bid on “Danseuses,” the 1896 pastel of ...

Alma Thomas

Alma Thomas

The art collection Michelle Obama selected for the White House from various national museums received some skepticism from critics, but one particular work from Alma Thomas garnered serious negative attention. The African-American artist was targeted as a plagiarist by right-wing bloggers, who claim one of her compositions is ...

Highlights
Bruce Davidson's True Grit

From photographs of a Brooklyn gang to civil-rights workers in the South, a powerful new retrospective celebrates 50 years of a groundbreaking social documentarian. VIEW OUR GALLERY

TRACEY EMIN

Britain’s Bad Girl Reveals Her Softer Side

ED RUSCHA

The King of California Cool's Painted Words

MARILYN MINTER

A Gallery of Pamela Anderson Nudes

JAMES CASTLE

An Outsider Artist's First Major Retrospective

NEIL WINOKUR

An '80s Art Flashback

Screening Room
Beautiful Minds: Stephen Wiltshire

October 29, 2009
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L.E.A.D. UGANDA AUCTION

Following the controversy surrounding his iconic Barack Obama poster, Shepard Fairey has moved onto a good cause. He will be auctioning off his newest mixed media collages to support L.E.A.D. Uganda, an educational leadership program that locates vulnerable children with natural artistic talents and harnesses those skills. Fairey's works, along with work by Joyce Tenneson, Dan Winters, Michal Chelbin, and others, will go on the block on November 12 at New York's Steven Kasher Gallery. Preview the works here.