A Dallas collector is suing Sotheby’s auction house over the disclosure of what was supposed to be the private sale of a Mark Rothko.  Marguerite Hoffman, widow of soft-drinks bottling magnate Robert K. Hoffman, filed a lawsuit against the auction house when the work was resold several years later, and used her name heavily in the work’s marketing materials.   (more…)

Artist Miranda July has launched her email project We Think Alone, a curated series of quotidian emails from celebrities, artists, and other public figures on a variety of themes.  Including emails from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lena Dunham, Kristen Dunst, Etgar Keret and more, the piece welcomes an intimate peek into the sender’s day to day life.  “Privacy, the art of it, is evolving. Radical self-exposure and classically manicured discretion can both be powerful, both be elegant. And email itself is changing, none of us use it exactly the same way we did ten years ago; in another ten years we might not use it at all.”  Says July. (more…)