Tuesday Links!

We made an Art Fag City Google+ page. That’s right – there’s another spot online where we can partake in flame wars. LIKE. US. [Google+]
Arkansas River will get it’s first Christo and Jeanne-Claude work. It will cost $50 million, all of which the artist will pay for through the sale of his work. This project was conceived while Jeanne-Claude was still alive but no matter. The Times has already dropped her name from the project. [NYTimes]
How do demographics effect the art market. [The Art Newspaper]
PICA (Portland Institute for Contemporary Art) gets a new permanent home. [Port]
Monday night's contemporary art sale at Phillips de Pury & Company in New York brought $71.2 just over its low estimate of $66 M. Compare: “That feel-good atmosphere, along with the newly installed plush carpeting, contributed to the relative success of the main event, comprising 44 lots estimated to fetch between $66.1-97.3 million.” [ArtInfo] to “Phillips de Pury & Company's auction of contemporary art — which started this week's back-to-back big-money auctions — was a tepid affair, with price resistance on everything from paintings by Warhol and Lichtenstein to sculptures by Jeff Koons and Maurizio Cattelan” [NYTimes]