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Backed by an endowment of $2.3 billion, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif., has no need to count the pennies, or even the millions. It proved that again last week at a London auction, where the museum bought Andrea Mantegna's Adoration of the Magi for $ 10.45 million, the highest sum ever paid for a painting at auction, surpassing the $10 million paid for J.M.W. Turner's Seascape: Folkestone last year. Mantegna worked on the deeply spiritual canvas between 1495 and 1505, when he was court painter for the worldly Gonzagas of Mantua. They would have appreciated...
...background--his father was an accountant--collectors tended to see him as the authentic representative of the urban underworld, the new wild child. They came running with their wallets open. They have kept them open too. Last June an untitled Basquiat from 1982, a head with fangs, sold at auction in London for $4.5 million. His record is $5.5 million, for a painting sold in 2002 by Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich. The title? Profit...
...magazine Pride, nurturing her poetry and fiction on the side. When she had a rough draft of 26a, she took it to the Creative Writing M.A. course at the University of East Anglia and honed it there. With a high-powered agent on board, 26a - after a hotly contested auction - went to Chatto and Windus as part of a two-book deal. Ostensibly a chronicle of two decades in the life of the Hunter family in a shabby patch of North London, the novel's real vitality lies in the relationship between twin sisters Georgia and Bessi. Evans...
...winning bid of $2,325 on Wednesday gave him the authority to name the arena on March 1, as corporate owner Delaware North Cos. continued to auction temporary naming rights and donate the proceeds to charity. Bank of America, based in Charlotte, N.C., opted not to renew the naming contract with the arena after it acquired FleetBoston Financial last year...
Since the eBay auction and subsequent backtracking by FleetCenter representatives—one of whom called the “Jeter” name “obscene”—the lawyer has received calls from the New York Times, ESPN, and NBC, among others...