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...Retreat themes here have ranged from painting en plein air to perfume-making....
...“I had a dual plan: plan A involved transforming the family home into a guest house and restaurant; and plan B was to sustain a livelihood as a chef, regardless.”...
...Christie’s brother came to stay with us and when he arrived there wasn’t even a bed for him!” His impetuousness comes from forward thinking....
...Heightening the impact are snippets of text, such as a pencil-scrawled sympathy message dedicated to Sean Bell, an unarmed black man killed by police in 2006, in the painting “Homage to a Brother” (2007)...
...Quiet quitting Vinod Adani has begun to retreat from his brother Gautam’s industrial empire as scrutiny mounts on the company, Bloomberg reports....
...The owners of UK supermarket group Asda, brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa and private equity group TDR Capital, have made an initial non-binding bid but it is not clear whether they will now make a formal...
...a canvas to promote a new piano, being played by his twin brother....
...Turner wanted to be a police officer from a young age, following in the boot steps of her dad, two brothers, her uncle and her godfather....
...That will drag down the overall issuer rating to a B level. Analysts at the research group Covenant Review also highlighted some weak investor protections in the deal documents....
...The London gallerist Stephen Friedman has signed up three new artists this month: Holly Hendry (b.1990, London); Marina Adams (b.1960, New Jersey) and Leilah Babirye (b.1985, Kampala)....
...Back then I was making a ring [in exchange] for a painting or a piece of clothing,” she remembers. She must marvel at how influential and successful her old gang has been. “I know!...
...In the libel suit he brought in 1878 against John Ruskin, the Victorian painter James McNeill Whistler was asked under cross-examination how he justified charging 200 guineas for a painting of a London firework...
...The living room in the New York home of Dick Jenrette, who died last weekend at the age of 89, is adorned with paintings of key figures in Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, the trailblazing investment bank he...
...“No, he is named after the outlaw, Jesse James, and Frankie after his elder brother, Frank,” says Zeitz, in all seriousness. “I’m fascinated by the Wild West.”...
..., as well as any proceeds derived from the sale of such painting....
...All I talk about is 1958 when I heard “Long Tall Sally”, when I heard “Johnny B Goode”, when I heard Bo Diddley. That changed my life completely....
...The gallery plans to rectify this with a London show of new large-scale, abstract paintings in July (price range £80,000-£150,000). Albertz Benda continues to represent the artist in New York....
...So I want to be able to read that B from across the street.”...
...9 burger café is a very stylish independent bookshop, Junction, and — dominating a central intersection — a white fortress housing the second-best restaurant in town, the San Maru, home of Korean “Bar-B-Q...
...“It’s G… L… O… B… O… the company you’re after? We used to have a partnership with them, buts it’s not active”....
...Americans worry that (a) the league would fold due to losses and (b) fans would lose interest in an unbalanced competition. Both are unwarranted....
...Tony Barber Science The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters, by Sean B Carroll, Princeton, RRP£18.95/$24.95 Carroll, a molecular biologist and geneticist, describes...
...There are workshops to raise the standard of paintings and it’s a recognised cultural phenomenon....
...After his death in 1991, his younger brother, Marthanda Varma, then aged 69, became head of the family and Lord Padmanabha’s new trustee....
...Soon there were multiple paper routes, a painting business, and a job manning the lift at a nearby ski hill. “I wanted the independence. I wanted nice things....
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