At Sotheby’s, 43 works from the collection of Bunny Mellon sell for $158.7 million. Every piece on offer sold! [The New York Times]
Cindy Adams endorses Leonard Lauder’s new “age appropriate” marriage. [New York Post]
Steve Cohen bought that $101 million Giacometti at Sotheby’s last week. “Steve is a very serious, very astute collector,” dealer William Acquavella said. “He also has just the right instincts, ones that can’t be learned from reading art history books.” Okay! [The New York Times]
Former Frick director Everett Fahy comes out against the museum’s expansion plans. [Bloomberg]
The Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia is suing the estate of Maurice Sendak, claiming that it is withholding rare books that had been promised to the museum’s collection. [The New York Times]
The Museum of the Moving Image has tapped film exec Michael Barker to be the new cochair of its board of trustees. [Artforum]
Andrew Butterfield on Rembrandt’s late works. [The New York Review of Books]