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Judd Part of Sotheby’s Best-Ever Sale
"...notable sales included an iconic Donald Judd stack sculpture, which went for $7.4 million to the San Francisco-based collector and Gap founder Don Fisher, who recently announced plans to open a vast private museum in the city's Presidio area."

Marfa Border Patrol Agents Nab a Ton of Marijuana
Filmmaking Brothers Coen Talk No Country for Old Men

You Can’t Hold It, but You Can Own It [NY Times]
"ART can be defined, provocatively, as an intangible quantity that transforms an ordinary object — a urinal, a soup can, an unmade bed — into something worth many times more than its material value. Tino Sehgal seeks to isolate precisely that intangible quantity. His art is completely immaterial; it can be bought and sold without involving any objects whatsoever..."

Marfa Portraits at Thunderbird

The Thunderbird Hotel invites us all to join them Monday evening for the opening of a show of Marfa Portraits by Louise O'Connor. November 19th 6pm – 8pm, complementary cocktails. If you keep a keen eye, you may spot some of the stars mingling with the masses.

Like a Black Bear

Not to worry dear readers. No, I have not fallen off the end of the earth - nor have I been spotted by the blimp doing just those things for which the blimp spots. This year's Open House Weekend was certainly a whirlwind of art openings, performances, lectures and, of course, fun with friends. I guess since then I've been recovering in deep hibernation. (Drinking tequila straight from the Marfa water tower was certainly one of the culprits.)

At any rate, I'm back in action and be prepared for more of the good stuff on a regular basis.

Cheers,

Mark