Paddle 8 has a nice selection of works on paper inspired by America and politics. I have a new book, Yes: Transform Your Life with Color By Number that comes out on Election Day, so I thought I’d put the two together. Never have we seen such a contentious election as this that has divided our country in two. I created a HOPE painting for President Obama‘s first run in 2008 (based on a vintage paint by number of the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor) and I just revised it for the book and a commission, VOTE. (You can download the blank with palette here and enter to win a free print and a signed copy of my book.)

Let’s just HOPE that people do exercise their right and let’s also ask that God, PLEASE –bless America in three days.

Let’s say you have $40 million to spend at Christies, just for fun. Last Tuesday, they set a record for the auction house when they sold $857 million worth of art in one evening. Among the big winners that night were these three record-setting graphic works by Ed Rusha ($30,405,000), Roy Lichtenstein ($2,741,000) and Christopher Wool ($6,997,000) which add up to roughly $40 million. But, if you’d rather have a sweet apartment (another good place to plop $40 mill) this penthouse in the West Village, one of Richard Meier’s masterful designs, is being offered by Christie's Real Estate for the first time since its completion. The duplex is 4,550-square-feet, with four-bedrooms, four-baths and dramatic 21-foot ceilings with an 1,800 square foot terrace and spectacular views of the Hudson River (and my own front door a few blocks away.) You don’t have a LOT of wall space but there’s enough for these three works, so if you’ve got another $40 mill, you can have it all. And If You Don't Like It You Can Get The Fuck Out Of My House.

This Ed Ruscha from 1963 set an artist record selling for $30,405,000

Even Lichtenstein would say that $2,741,000 is a lot of dimes... (for a work on paper)

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