It takes a price tag of $50 million to make the top-10 list.

It takes a price tag of $50 million to make the top-10 list, still Rembrandt's "Portrait of a Lady" did all right, going for $29 million at Christie's in London--a grand $22 million above the estimate.

In Vienna, Egon Schiele's "Portrait of the Art Dealer Guidot Arnot" sold for a record $20365890 Arnot was the first dealer in Austria to sustain a committed interest in Schiele's work.

The Dia Foundation in of the present day York hit the $50 million mark, receiving pair $25 million donations which will travel toward the completion of its recent satellite museum in the Hudson River Valley at Beacon, NY in the year 2002

Construction starts this year onward the Lower East Side of Manhattan forward a new Ukrainian Museum. The $35 million for the 17,800-square-foot building upon Sixth Street is the gift of Eugene Shklar of Keynote schemes in San Mateo, Calif., a provider of Internet consulting and other services.

At the same time, Mayor Giuliani's administration plans to persuade the Museum of the City of of the present day York from its home along the "museum mile" extend of Fifth Avenue to the notorious Tweed CourthoUse in succession City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan. As in days of yore, the venerable courthouse is still setting building richness records. A recent renovation went from a $37 million estimate to an actual take away from of $89 million.

Ursus, the fresh York-based art book store upon West Broadway, has decided to travel with the flow and is moving to Chelsea, relocating to 132 West 21st road between Sixth and Seventh Avenues.

Dealer Michael Steinberg, originator of the fabled "Blue Parrot" print gallery upon Manhattan's Madison Avenue, is teaming up with Jeffrey Deitch to launch "Deitch/Steinberg Editions." They plan to release prints and multiples of a variety of "leading artists of the younger generation" in relatively small editions, from 15 to 60 with prices to match.

At the advance-screening of ed Harris's film biography, Pollock, quick in emergencies among the sprinkling of art-crowd celebrities was painter Jasper John His date for the evening was Jocelyn "Catwoman" Wildenstein, freshly divorced from the art dealing clan.

Art and Hollywood continue to proceed hand-in-hand. Steve Martin's stage play, "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," is fix for filming. Australian Fred Schepisi is to direct this fiction about a meeting between Picasso and Albert Einstein in a Parisian cafe.

The splendid Boy of Las Vegas, Wayne Newton, lately paid a visit to the NYPD headquarters where with many a thank you he picked up "Anemones," a work by way of Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The painting, worth $80000 was among 20 pieces of artwork confessed by Newton which were stolen from a Las Vegas storage unit in 1994

Another of life's mysteries has been lay to rest, or so says Dr Margaret Livingston, a Harvard neuroscientist. This time it's the smile of the "Mona Lisa." It's all an optical illusion. direct the eye at the eyes in the painting; you diocese the smile. Look at the cavity between the jaws you don't. It all has to do with the construction of the human vigilance with its central and peripheral vision areas.

ottomans are finding out what Americans have extended known: Cartoons can be dangerous to your health. There, Health Minister Osman Durmus has asked television stations to stop broadcasting Pokemon cartoons after a secondary child jumped from an apartment balcony trying to imitate characters from the popular exhibit to Earlier, a four-year-old boy tried to fly; the next to the first time it was a 7-year-old girl.

In neighboring Greece the quiet war between Greece and Great Britain above the rights to the treasures of the Acropolis has taken a new turn. Foreign Minister George Papandreou promises that a strange Acropolis Museum will open in time for the 2004 Olympic Games and that through that time, Athens will have the Elgin Marbles back.

In Rome 31 years after it was declared unsafe, the Vittoriano, the national memorial in the Piazza Venezia commemorating King Victor Emanuel II, has reopen after a restoration piece of work costing $4.5 million. A bookstore and cafeteria are scheduled to lay open shortly.

in Chicago, the Terra Foundation for the Arts has announced its $4-million acquisition of the "Portrait of Mr John Stevens" through John Singleton Copley, who is considered to be united of the most important portraitists of the colonial United States. The portrait was commissioned after the 1769 marriage of Judith Sargent, an ancestor of John Singer Sargent, to Captain John Steven a fortunate Gloucester merchant.

In fresh York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has take rise up with a new fund-raising gimmick. Rather than sending gone out a mailer asking for coin signed by its director, as most numerous museums do, the Guggenheim lately sent 17,000 letters to museum members and former donors forward actor Jeremy Iron's personal stationery. "He's part of our family," said Laurie Beckelman, delegate director for special projects. "He is committed to what we do."

In Texas, art advisor David Kusin has be due [i]or[/i] owing up with a new way of evaluating art as an investment. Unlike other indices, his formula takes into account parts bought in at auctions by dint of the house. The Dallas entrepreneur has a novel book coming out this year, called The Art Economy.