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DiCaprio Shopping, Dealers “Killing It” at Art Basel Miami Beach

"Leonardo DiCaprio just came by and bought a 1973 Frank Stella painting," Ricky Manne of Marianne Boesky (New York) reported. "It was priced at slightly under a million dollars."

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  Brian Boucher
• Dec 3, 2014 5:48 pm

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Ten Creative, Disorienting, Enlightening, and Sometimes Frightening Monographs and Catalogues

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, Marisol, Lygia Clark, and Lee Bontecou are among the subjects of major books this season

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  Zoë Lescaze
• Jun 11, 2014 11:00 am

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Back on the Train Doug Aitkens Station to Station

Several months ago I met the video and multimedia artist Doug Aitken, who told me of his plans, years in the making, for a three-week cross-country trip aboard a specially outfitted train, with seve…

• By
  Gregory Volk
• Sep 18, 2013 4:48 pm

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Doug Aitken Demolishes 303 Gallery

As an addendum to his show "100YRS," which closed on Saturday, Aitken has devised a work around the razing of the Chelsea gallery, which is moving temporarily to make way for a new building on the…

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  Brian Boucher
• Apr 2, 2013 11:28 am

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Seattle Art Museum Commissions Permanent Work by Doug Aitken

For his first permanent museum commission, L.A.- and New York-based artist Doug Aitken will create a work for the facade of the Seattle Art Museum.

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  Brian Boucher
• Apr 4, 2012 4:51 pm

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Doug Aitken: Infinite Regress

Doug Aitken is a master of cinematic atmospheres. In his video works, most of which are essentially plotless, he creates environments that have a sort of moody, romantic, nostalgic, strange ambience.

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  Andrew Berardini
• Jun 1, 2011 10:00 am

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Video Stars at Art Basel

The 1979 New Wave song "Video Killed the Radio Star" kept running through my head as I made my way around the cavernous maze that is Art Basel 41's intermingled Art Unlimited and Art Statements sectio…

• By
  Quinn Latimer
• Jun 17, 2010 2:46 pm