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Francis Brings Home the Bacon ($86.3 Million)
Sotheby’s/Associated Press Francis Bacon’s "Triptych, 1976," auctioned Wednesday night, broke records. Expected to fetch $70 million, it sold for $86.3 million, the most money ever paid for a work of contemporary art. See Carol…
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Really good artist paints Stalin and everybody! The whole gang!
A talented young woman! She also plays the guitar!
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Page meets Stage at the Bowery Poetry Club
left to right: Michael Cirelli, Taylor Mali, David Lehman, Arianne Benfordphoto credit: Marie-Elizabeth Mali At the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC on Wednesday evening May 15, Arianne Benford read her poems followed by a…
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Freud Quiz # 12
At which of these jokes did Freud laugh:(1) Catholic is to wholesale as Protestant is to retail.(2) “A wife is like an umbrella. Sooner or later you take a cab.”(3) “This girl is like…
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My Goal is to Go to Mongolia!
All day yesterday I tried to write a song in the Cole Porter manner beginning "My goal is to go to Mongolia," but the melody of "Columbia, the gem of the ocean" kept getting…
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“Doubting the Doubts” [by David Shapiro]
David Shapiro wishes Jasper Johns a happy birthday (May 15)! Doubting the Doubts A map dropped from my handsAnd a voice cried, From now onYou will proceed in darkness.Alas, he laughed, that is true.…
