A Warhol Leads a Night of Soaring Prices at Christie’s

By CAROL VOGEL

2014 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, via Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

“Triple Elvis (Ferus Type),” taken from a publicity shot for his 1960 movie “Flaming Star,” had been expected to sell for around $60 million.

A 1963 Andy Warhol painting of Elvis Presley pointing a gun sold for nearly $82 million, contributing to an $852.9 million auction total.

Museum & Gallery Listings for Nov. 7-13

A selected guide to exhibitions and installations in New York City.

The Appraisal

A mural of a Bald Eagle, by the Australian artist Peter Daverington, at 3623 Broadway between 149th and 150th Streets.

Where Audubon Found Repose, Sprayed-On Specimens Alight

By MATT A.V. CHABAN

The Manhattan murals, a modern twist on John James Audubon’s prints, have helped the Audubon Society raise awareness about birds threatened by climate change.

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Belal Khaled in his studio at a Gaza refugee camp.

Artists’ Work Rises From the Destruction of the Israel-Gaza Conflict

By JODI RUDOREN and FARES AKRAM

Palestinian artists have gotten attention for their war-inspired creations by posting them on social media networks, where thousands have “liked” or shared them.

November 10, 2014

Steven A. Cohen Was Buyer of Giacometti’s ‘Chariot,’ for $101 Million

Mr. Cohen, the hedge fund billionaire, was the sole bidder for the sculpture, among the artist’s finest.

November 10, 2014

Museum Sues Sendak Estate Over Rare Books

The Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia has sued the estate of Maurice Sendak, claiming that the estate is withholding rare books that Sendak promised to the library.

November 10, 2014

Rothko and O’Keeffe Works Among Highlights of Mellon Auction

Paintings by Rothko, Diebenkorn, O’Keeffe and Fontana will be auctioned at Sotheby’s on Monday, along with other artworks from the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon, known as Bunny.

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Art Review

Bartholomeus Spranger paintings in a Met show include “Hercules and Omphale.”

Artworks of the Flesh Are Manifest

By KEN JOHNSON

The first major exhibition on Bartholomeus Spranger, at the Met, shows him to be a very good painter who had a knack of being in the right place at the right time.

Christopher Williams

By MARTHA SCHWENDENER

Christopher Williams continues his exploration of photography as an art medium in his show at David Zwirner.

Jasper Johns’s “Flag,” signed and dated 1983, sold for $36 million on Tuesday night.

Rothko and Johns Paintings Are Stars of a Sluggish Auction for Sotheby’s

By CAROL VOGEL

Despite some high prices paid for works by Mark Rothko and Jasper Johns, the week of big-money contemporary art auctions got off to a sluggish start on Tuesday evening at Sotheby’s.

A 1932 painting by Georgia O’Keeffe sold on Monday for $3.1 million. It had adorned Bunny Mellon’s Virginia dining room.

All 43 Works From Bunny Mellon’s Collection Sell at Sotheby’s Auction

By CAROL VOGEL

The philanthropist’s collection included “masterworks” spanning 400 years. It brought $158.7 million at Sotheby’s on Monday, topping a high estimate of $121 million.

Frick’s Plan for Expansion Faces Fight Over Loss of Garden

By ROBIN POGREBIN

Preservation groups opposed to the Frick Collection’s plans for a six-story addition say the museum is going back on a 1973 promise to make a garden permanent.

Art

Mickalene Thomas’s “Portrait of Lili in Color.”

Creators Inspired by Ebony and Jet

By ROBERTA SMITH

Magazines and their images are part of everyone’s childhood experience, but that’s especially the case with artists.

A team at the Metropolitan Museum, including its director, Thomas P. Campbell, left, overseeing the reattachment of Adam’s head by Carolyn Riccardelli. The statue fell and shattered in 2002.

Recreating Adam, From Hundreds of Fragments, After the Fall

By CAROL VOGEL

A dozen years after a 500-year-old marble Adam by the Renaissance sculptor Tullio Lombardo broke into hundreds of pieces, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is poised to reintroduce it to the public.

Leaving the Monsters Behind

By TED LOOS

The sculptor Thomas Houseago, who made his name with towering figures, will exhibit a single large installation which he considers his “first proper New York show.”

Graham W. J. Beal, Detroit Institute of Arts director, got good news.

‘Grand Bargain’ Saves the Detroit Institute of Arts

By RANDY KENNEDY

A “grand bargain” to help save pensions also ends a threat to the Detroit Institute of Arts, a danger with roots going back nearly a century.

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Art Review

Independent Projects Unveils New Art Fair Concept: A Show

By MARTHA SCHWENDENER

Independent Projects features work by Yves Klein among its 40 solo shows, which go from art fair to exhibition over the next week.

Art in Review

“Still Life With House Plants and Pink Vase” (2014), by the photographer-sculptor Daniel Gordon, at Wallspace.

Daniel Gordon: ‘Screen Selections and Still Lifes’

By KAREN ROSENBERG

Mr. Gordon’s show at Wallspace comprises two groups: large-scale still lifes and photographs that are enlarged details of the still lifes.

Art Review

Marquee Works Amid Buried Treasure

By KAREN ROSENBERG

The Print Fair rewards visitors willing to poke around, but also has an increasing emphasis on gallerylike solo and theme exhibitions.

Special Section

Picasso and a Great Pyrenees, left, from “Picasso & the Camera” at the Gagosian Gallery and “Jacqueline aux Fleurs” by Picasso, from “Picasso & Jacqueline” at the Pace.

Fine Arts & Exhibits

A special section highlights upcoming events and exhibitions, and surveys new developments in prominent museums.

Interactive Feature

Fall Arts Preview - Times 100

How to wade through the crush of culture coming your way this season? Here’s a guide to 100 events that have us especially excited, in order of appearance.

Inside Art

A digital rendering of Teresita Fernández’s “Fata Morgana,” which is to be installed next spring in Madison Square Park.

The Glow Coming to Madison Square

By CAROL VOGEL

“Fata Morgana,” an installation by Teresita Fernández that features hundreds of polished reflective metal discs, will take up residence in Madison Square Park next spring.

Antiques

Sketches and paintings from the Victorian stained-glass company Clayton & Bell, including this one, have been acquired by Prints Charming in Manhattan from descendants of Alfred Bell.

Conserving Stained-Glass Records at Corning Museum

By EVE M. KAHN

The Corning Museum of Glass library is to start unfurling about 7,000 drawings and paintings from the Whitefriars stained-glass factory; a black film poster collection is for sale.

Museum & Gallery Listings for Nov. 7-13

Multimedia

Video

Tenement Memories

Rita Ascione is one of the last living residents of the Lower East Side building that is now the Tenement Museum. She recently returned with her daughter, Valerie Carmody, to see her old apartment.

Video

Inside Picasso’s Camera

Picasso’s longtime biographer, John Richardson, is organizing a show focused on the importance of photography in the artist’s life and work.

Slide Show

David Lynch’s Paintings and Drawings

A new exhibition of the artist and filmmaker’s work is at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Slide Show

Behold! New Lebanon

A new tourism project in the Hudson Valley town of New Lebanon, N.Y.

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A Model Room Becomes Real

Redesigned patient rooms at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro have more space for patients and families, but some features still frustrate.