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New York artist Elizabeth Murray (who split her time between Tribeca and Washington County, NY) died yesterday after a battle with cancer at the age of 66. Her husband (with whom she had several children), Bob Holman, is the founder of the Bowery Poetry Club.

READING: We've been gushing over filmmaker, performing artist and writer, Miranda July's new book (and its accompanying website), No One Belongs Here More that You. Tonight she reads from her collection of short stories at Paula Cooper Gallery. There she is at left, typing away, and you can listen to her reading on her MySpace.

We've always been rather drawn to the work of French artist Sophie Calle, mainly because it's just plain weird. Over the course of her career Calle has: called up called up every person in a stranger's address book and then reported their observations of him to a newspaper, posed as a hotel chambermaid to document the belongings of the hotel guests, and followed a random stranger around Venice to record his every move. The voyeurism of these works is creepy and disturbing in its extreme invasiveness, yet despite the specificity of her subjects the results are often moving explorations of the pathos and vulnerability of general human existence.

Incase you aren't into spending your Sunday rubbing elbows with Elton there is another art auction being held today. This one to raise money for the Critical Art Ensemble Legal Defense Fund, in particular artist Steve Kurtz and scientist Robert Ferrell. Kurtz, the founding member of the Critical Art Ensemble artist collective, is at the center of this case and is being prosecuted by the US Government in a mistaken bioterrorism charge. You can read the full story here.