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...Investor Craig Duchossois, a No Labels donor, told the Financial Times he would not give to Trump or Biden but would give even more to Republican congressional candidates....
...Art Basel has beefed up its management with the hires of Hayley Romer as chief growth officer — a new role and a job title you don’t hear every day — and of Craig Hepburn as chief digital officer....
...“There is a diversity of museums focused on decorative arts, huge numbers of interior designers,” says Simon Andrews, a design expert who worked at Christie’s for 26 years....
...Last week, the organisers of the Taipei fair, The Art Assembly, announced the appointment of Craig Brown, previously fair director of Masterpiece, as director of gallery relations primarily for its fairs...
...It’s companies’ refusal to accept less than excessive valuations that clogged the pipeline, ex-banker Craig Coben argues in an Alphaville post....
...Daniel Craig reprises his role as Benoit Blanc, a self-effacing, Southern-accented genius of a private detective, and Johnson has a blast building out a luxuriant funhouse of a mystery, which unfolds on...
...Also a lover of murder mysteries, his top lockdown film pick is Knives Out, starring Daniel Craig as the detective, which features an epic will-reading scene....
...To help rebuild the city’s cultural landscape, Christie’s has launched a charity sale....
...Daniel Craig lays it on thickest as a Southern sleuth who comes to probe the killing of prickly paterfamilias (Christopher Plummer) and grill his money-hungry offspring....
...In 2011, Craig McNaught quit his job as a software engineer in South Africa’s Eastern Cape to enter the family wine business....
...Andrew Wilson continues his ingenious series with Agatha Christie as sleuth with I Saw Him Die (Simon & Schuster RRP£18.99, May)....
...Now in its 13th year and rebranded as Neverwold, the early-August festival will host Craig David, the Mystery Jets and Craig Charles....
...Design Miami’s Basel edition is 50 per cent owned by MCH Group, which also has a 10 per cent stake in the Miami event (majority owned by founder Craig Robins)....
...New-build prices are pushing up the figures, says Walt Danley, chief executive of the eponymous affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate....
...Christie’s should make it big with the art collection of singer-songwriter George Michael, who died in late 2016. About 75 of the 200-plus items will be offered at a live auction in London on March 14....
...Now Christie’s has James Bond actor Daniel Craig’s 2014 midnight-blue Aston Martin Vanquish, numbered 007, at its April 20 Exceptional Sale in New York....
...Pablo Picasso designed 633 ceramic works between 1947 and 1971 — one of his plates, “Colombe avec un Rameau”, which was made in 1954 and etched with a dove — reached £62,500 at a Christie’s online auction...
...Artists who have donated works include Tracey Emin, Juergen Teller and Michael Craig-Martin (bidding open until August 1)....
...He mocks Michael Craig-Martin’s “An Oak Tree”, which consists of an ordinary glass of water placed on a glass shelf, an example of which is in the Tate: “It’s not a tree. It’s a glass of water....
...“I’m glad that Leslie didn’t live to see Brexit,” says Craig-Martin. “It would have horrified him....
...Waddington bought many of the works directly from the artists (including Peter Blake, Michael Craig-Martin and Patrick Caulfield) or their foundations; only two works had been on an auction block before....
...Who Jellis Craig, jelliscraig.com.au, tel: +61 03 8415 6100 Shoreditch High Street, London, UK, £3.95m Where On the main drag in Shoreditch, east London....
...Prices have risen 15 per cent in the past two years, according to David Barker, owner of Barker Realty, the Christie’s International affiliate in Santa Fe....
...When Craig Robins and Ambra Medda launched their collectable design fair in Miami three years later, it made sense to appeal as much to collectors from Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina as to a North American...
...Christie’s Part 1 raised just $9.3m, with 31 of the 55 lots failing — for a grim 56 per cent buy-in rate....
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