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Where has all your stuff gone, Joe DiMaggio? More than 1,000 items owned by the slugger, who died at 84 in 1999, are up for auction May 19-20 in New York City. Fans can see all the memorabilia, including this sampling of our favorites, here with their estimated prices, at a show near Times Square this week...
...Islander achievements," says Paul Sweeney, manager of Papunya Tula Artists, the oldest and most successful of the desert art centers, "and it's getting knocked about a bit at the moment." Industry observers blame a small number of rogue traders working outside the art-center system; others cite skyrocketing auction prices; some accuse the artists themselves. Says Sarra: "It's much more complex than it seems...
...unnoticed. When the exhibition "Dreamings" toured to New York in 1988, "all of a sudden taxi drivers and carpetbaggers from the desert were rocking up with works by the same artists rolled up under their arms and flogging them to na?ve collectors," Tim Klingender of Sotheby's auction house recalls...
...when Rover Thomas' All That Big Rain Coming Down from Top Side created an auction record for an Aboriginal painting, the market had evolved into a highly sophisticated industry with the best work being sourced from the community art centers where provenance was assured. But rogue dealers wanted a piece of the action, approaching in-demand artists direct. "Some artists I'm convinced will never paint enough paintings to satisfy the number of people who want them," says Sweeney. "So you've got something that's just exploded...
MARIO BATALI Dinner for 10 cooked by the chef went for $50,000 at an auction benefiting Little Red Schoolhouse in N.Y.C...