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MOCA gala stuff for sale, Scott Rothkopf to Whitney Museum, Baldessari at Fendi, more.

GALA GALA GALA Photos by Patrick McMullan

Out at the Museum of Modern Art "Tribute to Tim Burton" and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art "New 30th Anniversary Gala"

MAGAZINE RACK by Grant Mandarino

November issues of , and .

GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley

Race in depictions of music and pleasure in 18th- and 19th-century American painting.

ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL

MFA open studios at Parsons Fine Arts.

MERRY AMERICA by Michèle C. Cone

Race in depictions of music and pleasure in 18th- and 19th-century American painting.

SMALL BEER by Charlie Finch

The conflicts of interest in l’Affaire Joannou are all too familiar.

WHO WANTS MORE? An interview with Olaf Breuning by David Coggins

Olaf Breuning on zombies, corporate advertising and discount travel.

ARTNET NEWS

"Tim Burton," Man Ray Award to Cindy Sherman, Pinta 2009, and Jarvis Cocker.

CHICAGO A GO-GO by Brook S. Mason

Windy City news update, Richard Gray “pop-up,” SOFA art fair, more.

ALICE’S WONDERLAND by Walter Robinson

"Alice Guy Blanché: Cinema Pioneer" at the Whitney Museum

A SHORT HISTORY OF MASTURBATION by Charlie Finch

Art’s primal secret, found in Sterling Ruby’s "The Masturbators."

ARTNET NEWS

L’Affaire Joannou. Plus, Prospect.2 New Orleans, road kill as tourist attraction, and Tom Sanford’s The Assassination of Dimebag Darrell.

ART MARKET WATCH

$134.4 million at Sotheby’s contemporary sale.

ARTNET GOSSIP by Rosetta Stone

Good stuff at Artnet Auctions. Plus, cakes, meat, bullfights and more.

ART MARKET WATCH

$74.1 million at Christie’s contemporary.

PARTY SAN FRANCISCO Photographs by Ruth Fruehauf

Out at the opening of the San Francisco Fall Antique Show.

GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley

George Grosz, Fernell Franco, Sally Mann, Justine Kurland, Hellen van Meene and Keizo Kitajima.

ARTNET NEWS

Kanye West, art critic. Plus, Warhol Polaroids, the rise of abstraction, Eric Fischl tennis lesson, Will Cotton pajamas, more.

THE UNFORBIDDEN by Charlie Finch

Richard Hell, Brigitte Engler and some other guy at Bowman/Bloom Gallery in the East Village.

A WHOLE NEW MUSEUM by Jerry Saltz

The Urs Fischer-izing of a four-story institution.

MAKING "HEAT WAVES" by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

An interview with artist Robert Gober, curator of a new Charles Burchfield show.

A WRINKLE IN TIME by Charlie Finch

Silvia Sleigh’s portraits of art-world notables from the 1960s and ’70s.

PAPER CHASE by Deborah Ripley

Prints in New York in fall 2009, at auction and at the fairs.

A WALK IN THE WOODS by Charlie Finch

The refreshingly bucolic David Hockney.

LOST IN TIME by Ben Davis

Josh Gosfield imagines the life of completely made-up French pop star "Gigi Gaston."

ART MARKET WATCH by Stewart Waltzer

The recession is over -- $181.7 million at Sotheby's Impressionist and modern sale on Nov. 4, 2009.

ARTNET NEWS

Piffle Tower in London? Plus, Print Week in Manhattan, San Francisco gallery shuffle, Damien Hirst’s bike, Ben Vautier, Franz West, more.

ART MARKET WATCH by Stewart Waltzer

$65.7 million at Christie’s Impressionist and modern sale on Nov. 3, 2009.

TUNA FISCH by Charlie Finch

Andy Warhol’s Tunafish Disaster meets Urs Fischer at the New Museum.

LITTLE THINGS MEAN A LOT by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy

The Brothers Quay, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt and John Evans, Robert Kinmont and Jacques Henri Lartigue.

THE FIERY FOREST by Charlie Finch

An environment worth watching by Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen.

ARTNET NEWS

Bankrupt law firm puts art collection on the block, Stuart Sherman in retrospective, Will Cotton bakery, more. Plus, Nancy Spero, RIP.

ARTNET DESIGN by Brook S. Mason

Glamour, super gilt and some drop dead chic at the 21st Haughton International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show.

HOT TAMALE! by Walter Robinson

El Museo del Barrio reopens with "Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis."

A NEW KIND OF BOOM by Jerry Saltz

Despite the dire predictions, galleries and artists are busting out.

WEEKEND UPDATE by Walter Robinson

Joe Brainard, Alfred Gescheidt, Mary McConnell, Simone Lucas, A.R. Penck, more.

A LACK ATTACK by Charlie Finch

Paintings by the legendary polysexual sybarite Stephen Lack.

ENDLESS SUMMER by Lara Taubman.

Bruce Nauman, Kenny Scharf, Zoë Sheehan Saldaña, Sanford Biggers, William Leavitt, Gustavo Artigas, Brian Bress, Neïl Beloufa, June Wayne, Titus Kaphar, more.

ARTNET NEWS

Culture wars hit MOCA Tucson. Plus, the International Fine Art & Antiques Show, public art at MAXXI, Christian Marclay’s Ephemera, more.