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...Amanda Blanc, who is doing a great job at Aviva, made a recent comment that takeover speculation was “mainly market chatter”....
...You can see the effort it takes to restrain his impatience with new wife Sibyl’s endless questions about Amanda....
...Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor and Republican presidential contender, slammed the president for souring relations with the Saudi crown prince....
...As co-founder Amanda Sharp recalls, “Our background through the magazine was with the artists, gallerists, writers and curators. We didn’t come to the fair knowing the collecting world.”...
...The latest of her metafictional takes on Christie tropes, The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels (Viper, £16.99), may feature something called “The Cold & Unsolved Murder Club”, but Osman’s Thursday...
...On a November evening at Christie’s New York last year, a poem was presented for auction....
...Their reputations may grow as it is bought and sold, but they do not necessarily gain a direct financial benefit,” says Amanda Gray, a partner at the law firm Mishcon de Reya....
...Amanda Kay Wang is our engineer. Music composition by Pascal Wyse. Fact-checking by Andrea Lopez Casado. Our executive producers are Cheryl Brumley and Jacob Goldstein....
...I use Artprice to check on the market, ARTnews for updates and, of course, Christie’s and Sotheby’s....
...Lara Wardle worked for Phillips and Christie’s auction houses before joining the foundation to oversee the Jerwood Collection....
...We can’t get enough of Amanda Gorman, the 22-year-old poet who stole the show at President Joe Biden’s inauguration last month....
...“This was when I first met him,” says Mothes, who was then with Christie’s, and worked on the valuations for the auction. “I asked him if he was sad to turn the page, and he said he wasn’t....
...A few weeks later, chief executive Maurice Tulloch was replaced by industry veteran Amanda Blanc, who appears much more shareholder-focused....
...I also added to my large holding in Christie — a much undervalued “brand” service business — on continuing signs of recovery....
...It will be particularly interesting to see what Amanda Blanc, Aviva’s new chief executive, delivers in terms of shareholder value given her initial comments which clearly indicate her intention of shaking...
...Amanda Brooks opened her Stow-on-the-Wold lifestyle store Cutter Brooks in 2018, with a focus on the “tabletop” in all its handblock napkin and scalloped place-setting glory....
...Christie’s conducted an old-school sale of works from the collection of late British businessman Jeremy Lancaster on October 1....
...Frieze, majority owned by the media and entertainment group Endeavor since 2016, has changed considerably since its magazine was founded by Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp in 1991....
...Dr Amanda Brown’s The Prison Doctor has sold about 61,000 copies in paperback, forensic pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd’s Unnatural Causes has sold 108,000, while nurse Christie Watson’s The Language of...
...“The luxury pre-owned market and specifically the watch category is a fast-growing segment in the Middle East,” says Amanda Ellison, president and chief operating officer of WatchBox....
...Andrew Wilson continues his ingenious series with Agatha Christie as sleuth with I Saw Him Die (Simon & Schuster RRP£18.99, May)....
...There’s not a raincoat nor a wellington boot in sight at Amanda Brooks’s new store in the Gloucestershire market town of Stow-on-the-Wold....
...Joining Xu as director is Jennifer Yum, who leaves Christie’s postwar and contemporary department after 12 years....
...Going Once: 250 Years of Culture, Taste and Collecting at Christie’s Phaidon £39.95, 496 pages...
...Auction houses such as Christie’s and Sotheby’s pose a potential threat. They sold a total $313m of fine wine in Hong Kong in 2016....
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