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...Artists and galleries from Los Angeles and the Bay Area proved their worth among their international peers, with highlights including Diedrick Brackens at Various Small Fires, Max Hooper Schneider at François...
...Christie’s sold £430.9m of Asian art in the first half of 2017, double the figure for the same period last year....
...On the evening of November 15 at Christie’s in New York, history was made when the hammer fell at $400,000,000....
...The other two names on the shortlist — Chris Christie, the New Jersey governor, and Newt Gingrich, former House speaker — would have sent the opposite message....
...Nikolaus Schneider, Chair of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany Bishop Martin Schindehütte, Head of the Department for Ecumenical Relations and Ministries Abroad, Evangelical Church in Germany...
...Julie Christie did great things when she was young but her best work may be as the victim of Alzheimer’s in Away from Her (2006), in which a wife simply forgets her loving husband....
...The power of Chinese buying hit the art and antiques worlds in December, when Christie’s broke its Asian record with sales of HK$3.18bn ($409m) at its six-day Hong Kong auction....
...In Agatha Christie stories, murderers take advantage of power cuts to commit heinous crimes....
...Yet we never see anyone as Schneider stumbles through them....
...Lisa Dawn Schneider, a private dealer in American art, says: “They were the guys who had fantastic things, for which they paid fantastic prices....
...One day her boss said he’d like her to give some friends a tour of the Schneider collection....
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