News Flash: Has the Recession Hit the Art Market?
11Nov08

The exception: L.A. based collector Dean Valentine sold John Currin's Nice N'Easy above the pre-sale estimate for $5.4 million at Sotheby's contemporary art auction, in an otherwise slow sale
A Dreary Night for Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s (NY Times)
Christie’s Impressionist Sale Falls Short; 44% Fails to Sell (Bloomberg)
Art Auctions Come Down to Earth (IHT)
New York Impressionist Sales Fall 37% Since 2007 (Bloomberg)
New York Gallery Shows in November (ARTINFO)
Frankenthaler’s New Way of Making Art (WSJ)
Maya Lin: Once Inspired by a War, Now by the Land (NY Times)
Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World (NY Times)
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