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June 25, 2008

Pop Stars Make Art Splash
(BBC News, June 11, 2008)

Venerable new romantics Duran Duran played the first-ever pop concert at the Louvre, performing in the museum's I.M. Pei-designed Pyramid. The unlikely event was a fundraiser to restore a Louis XV drawing room in the museum's 18th-century Decorative Arts Gallery, which is due to reopen in 2011. Meanwhile, U2 are putting Jean Michel Basquiat's Untitled (Pecho/Oreja) (1983) up for auction at Sotheby's, with the painting expected to fetch as much as $12 million. Bassist Adam Clayton snagged the piece in 1989, and it has hung in the group's Dublin studio until now. In a related story, Swedish art collector Gerard de Geer has filed a complaint against Basquiat's estate for refusing to offer an opinion regarding the authenticity of the painter's Fuego Flores.

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