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...The show, titled Avatar II, took up all four floors of the grand gallery on Grafton Street, and was opening that evening....
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...They also have a resonance with a younger generation of collectors weaned on the contemporary hyperrealist figures of Duane Hanson and the memento mori of Damien Hirst....
...How would native Belgians react if the Turkish community were to collect money to put up a statue of Mehmed II in the centre of Brussels?”...
...The collapse of dialogue could thus trigger a descent into civil war, fanning sectarian flames across the region and inviting external interference....
...That’s the highest level since World War II — when the figure stood at about 80 per cent of GDP — and surpasses the level reached in the Great Depression....
...The latest drama is over legal representation for Bruce Bent Sr, founder of Reserve Management Company, and his son, Bruce Bent II, who also ran the company....
...Basel II is already dead on arrival, too inflexible to deal with the pace of change....
...But Duane Hanson’s “Tourists, 2” (1984) priced at $1.5m remained stubbornly unsold – “just looking” on Christophe Van de Weghe’s stand, like some of those attending the fair....
...But politicians had a big hand in fanning the excessive leverage that lies at the root of the current crisis. Start with a tax system, particularly in the US, that favours debt finance....
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