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Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines

November 14, 2008 |  8:35 am

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-- Damien Hirst's 2007 "Beautiful Artemis Thor Neptune Odin Delusional Sapphic Inspirational Hypnosis Painting" fails to sell at auction. It had been expected to go for $3 million.

-- Melora Hardin of "The Office" will make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in "Chicago," beginning Dec. 29

-- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Hugo Boss have named Palestinian American artist Emily Jacir, who won the Golden Lion Award at the 2007 Venice Biennale, the winner of the $100,000 Hugo Patti_lupone_2Boss Prize.

-- The Broadway revival of "Gypsy,"starring Tony winner Patti LuPone, will close on March 1, 2009.

-- Los Angeles is among the seven cities represented in "Design Cities," a exhibition now at the London Design Museum after a run at the Istanbul Modern. Via LA Cowboy

-- The Columbus Symphony fires its music director.

-- Works by Marc Masterson and Adrien-Alice Hansel, Zoe Kazan, Charles Mee, Allison Moore, Naomi Wallace and the group Universes are selected for the 33rd Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays, which takes place March 1 to April 11, 2009.

-- The Autry National Center of the American West receives a $1-million grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation to expand and renovate its Griffith Park campus.

-- In an effort to cut costs, New York's Metropolitan Opera will drop next season's highly anticipated revival of John Corigliano's "The Ghosts of Versailles."

-- Jury deliberations expected to commence today in the trial of arts donor Alberto Vilar.

-- An exhibition of works by playwright Edward Albee and Brooklyn artist John Beech goes on display at a New York gallery.

-- Lisa Fung

Top: Damien Hirst's "Beautiful Artemis Thor Neptune Odin Delusional Sapphic Inspirational Hypnosis Painting." Credit: Phillips de Pury & Co. via Bloomberg News.

Inset: Patti LuPone. Credit: Ari Mintz / Newsday


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