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...Lehmann Maupin opens in three connecting spaces with a group show of new works, including Mandy El-Sayegh, Catherine Opie and Nari Ward, who gets a room to himself....
...Gabriela Hearst leather Eloise boots, $1,490 Courrèges viscose-mix sweater, $660, modaoperandi.com Isabel Marant leather studded belt, £325, mytheresa.com Soledad Christie stoneware Soñar el Agua sculpture...
...We recently picked up a copy of El Croquis 192: 6a Architects, the international architecture magazine’s issue dedicated solely to the London-based practice....
...At the coinciding 1-54 fair, Vigo Gallery sold 19 of 26 small-scale works made on pill packets by the Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi, priced up to $20,000 each....
...With delightful incongruity, the floor is also home to a wood-panelled library straight out of the tense denouement of an Agatha Christie novel....
...This year marks 1-54’s first London pop-up show, Transatlantic Connections: Caribbean Narratives in Contemporary Art, presented by Christie’s, which spotlights artists from the main fair including Sonia...
...Itineraries can be customised along the journey, but the standard Luxor-to-Aswan stops – Edfu and the acropolis at El Kab, Kom Ombo – are not to be missed....
...“I would like a fully fledged fair in Asia but am starting carefully,” says 1-54 founder Touria El-Glaoui....
...This live sale alone made a total £1.2mn — with Christie’s fees waived....
...Some of these coincide with exhibitions in the city: Julianknxx, who is on view at the Barbican Centre, will be at Edel Assanti’s booth at Frieze London; El Anatsui, who opens in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall...
...Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile)” (1983), sold by the fashion designer Valentino Garavani partly to benefit the brand’s staff training facilities, went for $58mn ($67.1mn with fees,...
...These were topped by “Etoile Filante (Falling Star)”, made in the early 1960s by the late Turkish painter Fahr El-Nissa Zeid, which sold above its €50,000-€70,000 estimate for €180,000 (€229,000 with fees...
...Participants include Christie’s, Sotheby’s, The Met and Brooklyn Museum....
...The Pinault family’s holding company Artémis, whose other holdings include a controlling stake in luxury group Kering and auction house Christie’s, plans to use $2.8bn in equity and $425mn in debt to buy...
...Sensing the number of collectors passing through town, the auction houses moved their midseason sales into “Frieze Week”; across Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips, last October’s evening sales totalled...
...A collection of 25 Surrealist works, valued at £13mn-£18mn, will be offered through two sales at Christie’s in London this season....
...At the premium end of the market is El Mirador – a 23,486sq ft, five-bedroom home in Sotogrande on the Costa del Sol, which is on the market with Savills for €17.9mn....
...In the sale are names such as El Anatsui (“Oga 1”, est £60,000-£80,000); Ibrahim El-Salahi (“The Tree”, £20,000-£30,000); William Kentridge (“The Head”, £50,000-£70,000); and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (“Erector...
...With a run of successful fairs — next week’s London edition is at capacity, with 50 galleries — plus ever-growing visibility, an education programme, a partnership with Christie’s and more, does she feel...
...offered at auction, Christie’s says....
...In 2000 she moved to London and completed a diploma in modern and contemporary art from Christie’s Education. It was then that she became interested in Chinese art. “A Saudi collecting Chinese art!”...
...El Hayawan’s atelier is located in the district of Zamalek, which is also home to the Museum of Modern Egyptian Art....
...Its first recipient is El Museo del Barrio, a New York institution for the often-overlooked Latino artists....
...The Renaissance portrait of Christ had drawn comparisons with Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi”, dated around the same time and which sold for $450mn at Christie’s in 2017....
...Did you imagine a country would ever make bitcoin legal tender, as El Salvador did in June?...
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