“Art worth $4.5m found hidden in Brazilian shipping container.” [The Art Newspaper]
Sotheby’s won the estate of Rachel Lambert Mellon, who was known as Bunny. Her collection includes paintings by Rothko and Diebenkorn. [NYT]
Linda Yablonsky at the Whitney’s Koons reception, and at openings all over town (and up at Bard). [Artforum]
Brett Gorvy thinks that Damien Hirst’s shark could make more than $70 million on the auction block. [FT]
Bruce Cole on Kenneth Clark. [WSJ]
Judith Bernstein discusses her show at London’s Studio Voltaire. [Artforum]
Talking El Greco. [New York Review of Books]
Carlo McCormick offers an “insider’s guide to the deer-hunting, pig-farming, mushroom-foraging hickster artists of the Catskills.” [ARTnews]
Katie Pfohl named curator at the LSU Museum of Art. [Plaquemine Post South]
