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ARTS

Tamayo Trio: Three major contributors to Los Angeles’ art community--artist David Hockney; Richard Koshalek, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art since 1982; and Joy Silverman, considered one of the most influential past directors of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, more familiarly known as LACE--will receive the second annual Mario Tamayo Awards for Outstanding Dedication to the Arts on Monday night. John Walsh, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, will present the award to Koshalek; Stephanie Barron, senior curator of modern and contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, will present to Hockney; and artist Lari Pittman to Silverman. Proceeds from the event--named for Tamayo, a former board member of LACE and of AIDS Project Los Angeles who died of complications of AIDS in 1994--benefit LACE.

Auction Success: A self-portrait by Jean Michel Basquiat, who died of a drug overdose at the age of 27, sold for $3.3 million to an anonymous collector at Christie’s late Thursday, smashing the previous record for the artist who was the subject of a 1996 screen biography. The 1982 work sold for more than five times its high pre-sale estimate of $600,000 at a two-day sale of contemporary art ending Friday. The previous record for a Basquiat was $596,500 for “Unbreakable,” set last May. “We have never seen such strong prices for newer works of art offered at auction,” said Christopher Burge, chairman of Christie’s North and South America. “The success of [the] sale demonstrates that this new market is definitely established and rapidly moving forward.” The total for the sale was $11,949,435, Christie’s said. Among other highlights was the record price paid for a Robert Gober, whose 1993-94 work “Untitled (Man in Drain)” sold for $552,500, and an untitled work by photographer Cindy Sherman that fetched $123,500, also a record for the artist.

POP/ROCK

Stones Rolling In?: The Rolling Stones may be delivering a valentine to their Southern California fans. The Stones announce Monday the schedule of their first full-scale arena tour in two decades, and it is believed to include a Feb. 9 stop at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim. The venerable British band is expected to list about two dozen North America shows on the “No Security” tour, which shares its name with the group’s newest live album. Unlike last year’s “Bridges to Babylon” tour--which was the top concert draw of the year, raking in $89.3 million--this circuit of shows will take the band out of stadiums in favor of smaller venues. But the best seats will cost up to $300, about five times the price of the stadium tickets.

THEATER

‘Masada’ One-Nighter: “Masada: The Musical” will have its world premiere at Century City’s Shubert Theatre in a one-night-only performance Dec. 15. The concert will be hosted by actor Jon Voight, and the cast features “Phantom of the Opera” star Davis Gaines. The musical, with music by Shuki Levy and lyrics by Shell Danielson, is based on the historical account of 967 men, women and children who stood atop the mountain of Masada in defiance of the 15,000 Roman soldiers who sought to enslave them. The evening benefits the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program.

QUICK TAKES

A judge in New York on Friday dismissed an assault charge against filmmaker Quentin Tarantino for allegedly hitting a woman with a punch meant for her boyfriend. Prosecutors said they couldn’t prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. . . . Singer Lauryn Hill, who recently topped the charts with “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” gave birth to her second child, a daughter, Thursday in New York. Hill and her boyfriend, Rohan Marley, also have a son, named Zion. . . . In honor of Veterans Day, actor-filmmaker Edward Burns, who plays Pvt. Reiben in Steven Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan,” will sign copies of the new book “ ‘Saving Private Ryan’--The Men, the Mission, the Movie” and discuss the film tonight from 6-7 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble bookstore on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. . . . To help promote the upcoming release of Universal Pictures’ “Babe: Pig in the City,” the studio has launched the Babe Bookmobile Tour, featuring storytelling, a CD-ROM activity area, giveaways and an opportunity to “Picture Yourself With Babe.” The first of four stops on the tour is Sunday from 1-4 p.m. at Borders Books in Torrance. . . . Due to demand for tickets for the late Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Decalogue,” a 10-part film series about the Ten Commandments, LACMA will also screen Parts 1 and 2 today at 4 p.m.; Parts 3 and 4, Sunday at noon; Parts 5, 6 and 7, Sunday at 7 p.m.; Parts 8, 9 and 10, Nov. 22 at 7 p.m.