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Lucian Freud's portrait of Francis Bacon sold today for rather less than expected. Bacon painted Freud many times. The Tate has an interactive exhibition on Bacon. Here's some Freud to balance things a bit.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Boathouse: a Case Study in the Ontology of Art. In 2000, three rowers from Buffalo's West Side Rowing Club sought the approval of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation for the construction of Wright's design for a boathouse, and it was realized last year. But a new Frank Lloyd Wright building raises some interesting questions -- when is it a FLW building, and when is it a reasonable facsimile thereof? What is needed to make a building a FLW? more inside

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