ART100% Sold!: The up-and-down art market hit...

ART

100% Sold!: The up-and-down art market hit another high point Wednesday night when Christie’s New York auction of the Ralph F. Colin Collection set two records and found buyers for all 76 works offered. The night’s top lot was Amedeo Modigliani’s “Seated Nude With Necklace,” which went for $12.43 million, setting a record for the artist and greatly exceeding Christie’s pre-sale expectations of $7 million to $10 million. Joan Miro’s “The Poetess” set a record for a work on paper by the artist when it sold for $4.73 million, topping the pre-sale estimate of $2 million to $3 million. The evening’s total take was just over $38 million, well above Christie’s expected $24.7 million to $34.4 million. The week’s auctions of Impressionist and modern works concludes tonight at Christie’s, where items on the block include Picasso and Renoir paintings from the collection of Pamela Harriman.

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Subway Art: Putting a new twist on the adage that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, French artist Christian Boltanski has turned New York’s Grand Central subway terminal into a gallery by putting more than 5,000 objects from its lost and found department on display. Along with the ubiquitous raincoats and briefcases left behind on the commuter trains, there’s a pornographic video, musical keyboard, football helmet, ready-to-paint clay figurines, bicycle, coffee grinder, Swahili dictionary, scuba mask and Bibles. The items, which went on view Wednesday, are set on shelves and surrounded by an eight-foot chain link fence. After one month on display, they will be donated to charity. Boltanski says the items “evoke the absence of those who have lost them, of those who have lost themselves.”

MOVIES

Seoul Man: Actor Bruce Willis will near the battle zones in real life when he performs this month for American troops stationed along the demilitarized zone separating South Korea from its communist neighbor to the north. Willis will be in Seoul for the May 22 opening of the latest Planet Hollywood location (he and wife Demi Moore are among the chain’s co-owners), and will venture to the DMZ the following day with his blues band, the Accelerators, which features Willis on vocals and harmonica. Willis promised to return with his band when he went to visit the troops last year during the Planet Hollywood groundbreaking.

POP/ROCK

Bail Set: Rapper Tupac Shakur, who is serving a one- to four-year prison sentence for sexually abusing a woman in a New York City hotel room, may soon be out of jail. Shakur, who was convicted by a Manhattan jury Dec. 1, was granted $1.4-million bail on Wednesday by an appellate judge who ruled that the rapper can be freed while he awaits a decision on his appeal. According to court papers, Atlantic Recording Corp. has offered to post a $850,000 bond for Shakur, and his associate Bert Padell will ante up a $250,000 treasury bill. The remaining $300,000 bail will be produced by Shakur’s insurance company.

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Palimony Suit: A woman who claims that she lived for more than two years with Dr. Dre, has filed a $10-million palimony lawsuit against the rapper, seeking damages for alleged breach of contract, fraud and emotional distress. Vivian Leone Morgan claims in her Los Angeles lawsuit that she lived with Dre, whose real name is Andre Young, from February, 1993, through March of this year, and that Young had assured her that if they broke up, “she would always be financially compensated and secured for the rest of her life.”

NEW MEDIA

Game Time: Steven Spielberg’s nonprofit Starbright Foundation is joining with several Silicon Valley high-tech companies to create a network of bedside computer games for sick children. Spielberg envisions a “virtual playground”--complete with 3-D special effects and interactive cartoon characters--in which sick youngsters can compete without being hindered by their limitations. . . . Disney Interactive is planning to release a home version in 1996 of its virtual-reality attraction “Aladdin’s Magic Carpet.”

QUICK TAKES

Services for Los Angeles jazz master Marshall Royal, an alto saxophonist/clarinetist who died Monday of cancer at the age of 82, will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Inglewood Mortuary, 3801 W. Manchester Blvd. . . . Actress Julia Roberts is in Haiti on a six-day visit as a new goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. Roberts’ agenda includes a meeting with Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. . . . The Mark Taper Forum has announced the final three plays of the 1995-96 season: Oliver Mayer’s “Blade to the Heat” (March 28-May 5), which was produced this season at New York’s Public Theatre; John Patrick Shanley’s “Psychopathia Sexualis” (May 23-June 30, 1996) and Marivaux’s “Changes of Heart,” (July 25-Sept. 1, 1996).