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Estimated: $500-$1000, Realized: $13,000

Bang Bang! Christie’s Silver Hammer Nets $361,938 For Unseen Beatles Photos

Beatlemania is alive and well! In the auction houses, anyway.

On Wednesday night, Christie’s brought in $361,938 for 46 previously unreleased photographs documenting The Beatles’ first US visit, well-surpassing a collective estimate of $100,000 and shocking photographer Mike Mitchell, who was just 18 when he took the pictures.

“I wasn’t expecting this, when I took Read More

Art World

Jonah Bokaer at

They Loved Jonah Bokaer's Paperwork at the Guggenheim

At the Guggenheim’s rotunda on Thursday evening, five dancers, accompanied by John Cage’s solo cello piece One8, performed On Vanishing, a new work by the young New York-based choreographer Jonah Bokaer that the museum had commissioned in conjunction with its current exhibition, Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity.

Audience members, including Mr. Bokaer’s mother, leaned against the museum’s low, spiraling Read More

Fighting Back

Hollaback! Campaign to end street harassment

Creeps Beware, Hollaback! is Here

When Samuel Carter’s female friends told him about their experiences on the streets of New York City — taking a roundabout route to dodge areas where creeps frequent, being afraid to go out at night, and not taking a job because of feeling unsafe in an area — he was blown Read More

Art Openings

Ai's self-portrait outside Tomkins Square Park, 1986. c/o Asia Society Museum.

Ai Weiwei Captures a Bygone New York

Three decades before his arrest and subsequent release last week by the Chinese government incited a media firestorm, Ai Weiwei worked as a Times Square street portraitist.

Enrolled at Parsons and living on the Lower East Side, he encountered drug dealers in abandoned buildings, a gritty underground arts scene, and police brutality at Tomkins Square Read More

Concerts

The Les Nubians on their makeshift stage

Les Nubians Brings a Nü Revolution to Brooklyn

Yesterday, The Observer was in the unfamiliar territory of the Walt Whitman Housing projects of Greene County, Brooklyn, where a Nü Revolution was taking place in the form of a musical performance by Les Nubians, a band led by the French-born Afropean sisters Célia and Hélène Faussart.

As The Observer walked through the neighborhood to Read More