Roy Lichtenstein's painting “Electric Cord,” which surfaced last month after being missing for 42 years, can remain unplugged and in storage for another four months, a Manhattan judge ruled Friday. full story ![]()

NEW YORK — A Jean-Michel Basquiat (zhahn mee-SHEHL' BAH'-skee-aht) painting has set a new auction record for the graffiti artist at a sale of postwar and contemporary art in New York. Christie's says "Dustheads" sold for $48.8 million on Wednesday. His "Untitled," a painting of a black fisherman, held the previous record when it sold for $26.4 million last November. Also...
huffingtonpost.com (2 days ago)

Cartoonist Peter Duggan shows that even cave girls get the blues, as Lichtenstein's heroine is submerged in a work deemed simpler than the earliest art
guardian.co.uk (2 months ago)

By blending high and low art, Roy Lichtenstein tested the contradictions at the heart of our ideas about art. He was labelled a heretic, but half a century later, we get the jokeIn November 2011, Roy Lichtenstein's 1961 I Can See the Whole Room … and There's Nobody in It! was sold by Christie's for $43.2 million. The painting depicts a large back square, out of which a...
guardian.co.uk (2 months and 24 days ago)

The custodians of North Yorkshire stately home Castle Howard have won a tribunal battle to avoid paying tax on the £9.4m sale of a painting, after a judge ruled it a piece of "plant or machinery" integral to attracting visitors.
telegraph.co.uk (2 months and 1 day ago)
Kansas judge blocks sale, use or discussion of investigator's 'In Cold Blood' files
msn.com (24 days ago)

First full-scale retrospective of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein in 20 years
bbci.co.uk (2 months and 27 days ago)

This monotonous retrospective reveals Roy Lichtenstein, the Pop Art pioneer, to have been rather a one-trick wonder, says Alastair Smart.
telegraph.co.uk (2 months and 25 days ago)

The first major retrospective of Roy Lichtenstein’s work since his death in 1997 travels to the Tate Modern, and holds some surprises.
nytimes.com (2 months and 26 days ago)
By David Jones NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - A federal judge has temporarily blocked an auction house from selling basketball great Kobe Bryant's jerseys, championship rings and other memorabilia worth up to $1 million in a case stemming from a dispute between the Los Angeles Laker and his mother. The All-Star guard has asked the courts to halt the sale of his belongings,...
yahoo.com (7 days ago)
The painting of actress Bea Arthur was one of the pieces of the art sold Tuesday.
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