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...Another AI show opens in London next week, this time looking at its interplay with paintings — and one lightbox — curated by gallerist Virginia Damtsa at Gabriel Scott (May 3-September 10)....
...Her bullishness is echoed by economists....
...The population of Florida grew by 707,000 between 2020 to 2022, according to US Census data, just as California and New York shrank by more than half a million each....
...The last thing I bought and loved was 3,000 Eremophila nivea plants to fill the garden I’m cultivating at my home in Ibiza. They have this silken texture and purple flowers....
...This includes some first-time Art Basel participants such as London’s Addis Fine Art, Galería Nora Fisch from Buenos Aires and Gallery Vacancy from Shanghai....
...Prices range from $3,000 for a main booth to $1,500 for a solo. Six galleries, which were identified as meriting support, have not been charged....
...The Baker-led consortium’s offer gives HBC an enterprise value of C$3.64bn....
...The cover lot, an imposing “Christ on the Cross” (1635-40) by Francisco de Zurbarán and estimated between £2.5m and £3.5m, failed to find a buyer....
...For a practice that is both subversive yet secretly classical, consider the collages by British artist Bobby Dowler at Madrid’s Galeria Alegria, priced between £1,700 and £3,000....
...Frieze London, October 3-6, frieze.com Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...What A seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom villa surrounded by jungle, with 165 metres of waterfront and direct access to the beach and sea in the cove below, which is home to a coral reef....
...As part of the deal, Signa will also acquire 50 per cent stake in the Canadian company’s German real estate assets, which it valued at €3.25bn....
...The project has succeeded — Meyer’s educational initiative, Manq’a Food Schools, has so far taught basic skills in cookery and bakery to 3,000 graduates, while 600 Bolivian students now have stable jobs...
...Most of the works sold well under De Pury’s gavel, making a total $3.5m against a presale high estimate of $1.8m....
...Shares in the group fell 3.45 per cent to €30.83 on the news....
...“Since 2010 revenues have fallen by 10 per cent. And if you include disposals, then revenues have at best stagnated. Worse, for us, the operating margin has fallen from 3.6 to 2.7 per cent....
...See page 3 for more details. Photographs: Marlborough Gallery; Alamy; Steven Brooke; Di Donna; Alan Cristea; Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte...
...Sales were lower at its Cash & Carry stores but grew by 3.6 per cent at its Media-Saturn unit, which has been transformed from a bricks-and-mortar consumer electronics business into a “multichannel retailer...
...Metro was advised by JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank. Bank of America Merrill Lynch advised Hudson’s Bay. Shares in Metro were down 4.3 per cent at €29.67 in Frankfurt....
...Until April 3....
...Shares in the company, which have halved in value since the beginning of 2011, were up 1.3 per cent at €27.39 in midday trading in Frankfurt....
...To April 3. calvert22.org Photographs: Yevgeniy Fiks; courtesy of Galeria Filomena Soares; courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town-Johannesburg...
...Metro was also boosted by the sale of Galeria Kaufhof to Hudson’s Bay Company in September, a deal from which Metro received a cash payment of €1.75bn, exceeding the group’s forecasts of €1.6bn in June....
...One is phallic, one is vulval, the last is a pair of icy buttocks overflown by a white bird. They hang, yearning but separated, side by side on my wall....
...The results hang in the Galería de la Oficina. In a café round the corner, Aristizábal explains why drawing is so central to Medellín’s art....
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