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...Top lot at Sotheby’s was Yoshitomo Nara’s “I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight” (2017), reportedly sold by the Hong Kong property tycoon Joseph Lau, for HK$96mn with fees (est HK$80mn-HK$120mn)....
...The significance of the latest Christie’s work goes beyond its large scale and bright colours, Arnold says....
...When Sotheby’s announced its sales results for 2023 this week, the bright spot came not in the activity for which the auction house founded in 1744 is best known, but in a less public place....
...Last week, a verdict was passed down in the case of Walkers Snack Foods Ltd v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, with first-tier tribunal judges Anne Fairpo and Sonia Gable ruling against...
...by Sylvia de Gay for Robert Sloan of New York, made in a textile design called Bright Butterflies....
...His style evokes the late ’70s — Antoinette wanted him to look a bit dated, to reflect the Pacific Northwest’s late adoption of contemporary trends....
...But also something soft and familiar and welcoming about the patches of vineyard, the chestnut woods, the orchards where citrus trees spattered with bright spots of orange and yellow lurked behind a thick...
...These were not clothes for selling on shop floors, but collectors’ items....
...The Ammanns were notable collectors of contemporary art....
...It is a field that has dwindling supply and demand, but there is every name a collector would want: Monet, Degas and Renoir feature, plus three works by Vincent van Gogh....
...Given Procter’s premise that “the history of British art . . . was written by collectors who traded in landscapes and lives”, it’s no surprise that the tours are unofficial....
...Abney’s paintings are disarmingly joyful at first glance, crammed with bright colours, dynamic figures and graphic shapes....
...Among the relocated fare is David Hockney’s bright “30 Sunflowers” (1996), estimated to sell for at least US$10m. But Wong remains confident that China, and its art market, will bounce back....
...“The artistry and combination of materials make his champlevé work stand out,” says Stephen Kelly, an ophthalmologist and art deco collector whose New York townhouse is now a gallery....
...Where to seeMary Quant at the V&A (vam.ac.uk); till Feb 16. Zandra Rhodes: Fifty Years of Fabulous at the Fashion & Textile Museum (ftmlondon.org); Sept 27 2019-Jan 26 2020....
...In his 2008 book, Happy Victims, about luxury‑obsessional Japanese consumers, the photo-journalist Kyoichi Tsuzuki recalls the story of a patent lawyer and Hermès collector who spent a clean Y500,000 (about...
...The South Dakota v Wayfair ruling, handed down last month, will open the door for states to pass legislation to require online merchants to collect and pay sales tax for sales within their borders....
...But unlike Apple, whose chief executive, Tim Cook, introduced the new iPhones last week in a bright white pair of $150 Nike Epic React trainers, Mr Rorsted leaves Adidas’s product launches entirely to the...
...At Araks, Econyl bikinis and cutaway swimsuits come in block colour brights (12)....
...More sober options are available but I admire Fitbit and its developers for trying to do more with the Ionic’s crisp and bright screen....
...“The bright yellow centre — the bright light — that’s Hudson.”...
...These are among over 100 trophy works reunited, for the first time, in the Royal Academy’s stellar, majestic, improbable and utterly engrossing exhibition Charles I: King and Collector....
...Netflix is now making dozens of movies a year such as Bright, starring Will Smith, which it released through its global streaming service rather than in movie theatres....
...While craft beer only accounts for 12.2 per cent of the US beer market in volume terms, in certain cities, such as San Francisco or in areas of the Pacific Northwest , it has won as much as half of the entire...
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
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