Word: mural
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...Christie's contemporary art sale in New York last month, the top lot was a huge mural painting by Mark Rothko that the auction house hailed as a "masterwork" and "of particular importance." When the bidding was over, No. 9 (White and Black on Wine) had sold for $16.4 million - a record for a Rothko at auction, as Christie's was quick to point out. What Christie's didn't trumpet was the identity of the seller: François Pinault, the self-made French billionaire whose holdings happen to include Christie's itself. The Rothko was in good company...
...debated our act off and on for weeks. We’d considered donning multicolored body paint, organizing a participatory mural and even playing three wise men—but vetoed all these options to indulge our shared fascination with the Square’s living statues...
...years ago in the Galleria area, which has since become the city's prime shopping district. His was one of the first restaurants to move beyond "American chop suey," Huang says, and became a favorite of Houston's oil barons. A white-tablecloth place dominated by a massive copper mural and carved teakwood partition, Hunan is where Vice President Dick Cheney, then CEO of Halliburton, once was host of a contract-signing ceremony with senior Chinese officials...
...order to soften [the system] from within. Somebody has to sacrifice himself." After years of estrangement - Mára once taught and romanced Brecka's wife, now an official of the all-powerful visual artists' union - their paths cross again when Mára is commissioned to design a mural for Brecka's school and a statue of a Soviet general. Mára reluctantly accepts the commissions, awarded to him thanks to generous lobbying of the Breckas, and what follows is a unique lesson in how to survive an oppressive regime without completely giving...
...their first projects, Gogel and the Art Squatters plan to paint a mural on Bow Street during Arts First weekend. And Gogel says their goal of painting murals of every department building at Harvard aims to link the university with the artistic community of Cambridge...