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...Artists whose work sold to lone bids included Damien Hirst, Francis Bacon, Christopher Wool and even social media sensation KAWS....
...True, there is an Oakland section in Jonathan Franzen’s Purity. But then the story moves to Germany....
...old and new, such as Rubens and the 29-year-old painter Jordan Casteel....
...Rayyane Tabet’s “Steel Rings” replicates an American pipeline from Saudi Arabia to Lebanon; disused, it still runs across now impassable borders between Syria, Jordan and Lebanon....
...Grimes, analysis editor, picks: • China's great game by Charles Clover and Lucy Hornby• The big drop: Riyadh’s oil gamble by Anjli Raval• Paris attacks: Notes from a wounded city by Simon Kuper• ICYMI:...
...Purity, by Jonathan Franzen, Fourth Estate, RRP£20/FSG, RRP$28 So it’s not Franzen’s finest — not up there with The Corrections (2001), say....
...The country’s best architects were dragooned into service, with Christopher Wren designing the central Figure Court (so-called because of its Grinling Gibbons statue of Charles II in the guise of a Roman...
...The King’s Pictures: The Formation and Dispersal of the Collections of Charles I and His Courtiers, by Francis Haskell, Yale, RRP£30/$60 A connoisseur’s volume: the story of the European dispersal of Charles...
...Christopher Fowler …………………………………………………………….....
...Nearly all of them were drawn from a pool of long-established favourites: David, Paul, Andrew, Mark, John, Christopher and so on....
...More than £800,000 was raised for Clic Sargent, the children’s cancer charity set up by Eddie Jordan of Formula One fame....
...After all, the wise thing would have been to declare herself a champion of young British fashion, thus avoiding unfortunate Caroline Charles/ Robinson Valentine-inspired comparisons to her predecessors,...
...Also on the board as non-executives are Charles Dunstone and David Ross of Carphone Warehouse and Eddie Jordan, who founded the Jordan Formula 1 team....
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