Art News Etc. #6

Rather a mixed bag of things this week! Enjoy!

• Standing Up vs Sitting Down at an Easel: pros and cons of both.

• The never quite finishing by De Kooning of a seven-foot painting, in article reprinted from 1953: De Kooning Paints a Picture

• The Problems Selling a Stolen Painting

• New York's Art District After the Storm Damage from Art News

• Meanwhile, in art-auction-land, records are being broken: Over $375 million at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Auction

• Obituary: Will Barnet from New York Times

• If you find who's connected to who in modern art confusing, the visual Mapping Out Modern-Art Connections makes it instantly clear that it is complex!

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