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...Before I experienced Barkley L Hendricks’ revelatory retrospective at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2008, I had never seen more than a couple of his works at a time....
...Christie’s total, up 17 per cent on last year, was boosted by 25 Surrealist works, which included the week’s top lot, René Magritte’s late “L’ami intime” (1958), hammering to little fanfare for £29mn (£33.7mn...
...“For cabinets and beautiful, small side tables, it was a way of making wood look like a jewel,” says L’Objet founder Elad Yifrach....
...and L-histidine....
...These shapes have many facets to play with, and everyone from the Lebanese L’Atelier Nawbar to William Welstead, Alice Cicolini to Gucci, has been seduced....
...[Gallerist] Nina Johnson once gave me a Nicola L piece; it’s called Forest, and it was from a show that Nina had of Nicola’s work....
...By 1966 the carnival proper had come into being, on the back of a parade from Earl’s Court to Ladbroke Grove arranged two years earlier by community organiser Rhaune Laslett....
...Established by Crispin Odey in 1991, the hedge fund firm was renowned for hiring “earls and girls” and for fund managers who brought shotguns to the office before dashing off on weekend shoots....
...Works by Willem de Kooning, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cy Twombly join Magritte’s “L’Empire des lumières” (1951, est $35mn-$45mn) and “Le Domaine d’Arnheim” (est $15mn-$25mn)....
...Rep Earl L Carter You know about the milk crate. You know about the blackout challenge. You know about the NyQuil chicken challenge....
...L-I-B-O-R. Harriet Clarfelt As the acronym kind of suggests, it started off in the UK. So it started the 1980s with the British Bankers’ Association....
...Denise L Ramos, a director on its sustainability committee, has a surprising side gig: chair of the public policy and sustainability committee at Texan oil refiner Phillips 66....
...Phillip Hennche, the brand’s director of channel innovation, says the partnership generated “huge” interest....
...art Just announced for early December, the inaugural TimeForArt auction will see a raft of art-inspired watches auctioned at Phillips New York....
...£199 A mohair blanket woven in Spain. rebeccaudall.com Linen bedding bundle by Bedfolk, from £149 Made from Belgian and French flax linen, available in six colours. bedfolk.com Nerumae sleep spray by Earl...
...The top price was £59.4mn for René Magritte’s “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s....
...“There are no equivalent 100 per cent mortgages in the standard market,” says David Hollingworth of UK mortgage broker L&C....
...A Hard Rock International hotel joined Times Square earlier this month while developer L&L Holding and its partners are on track next year to open a $2.5bn tower with a luxury hotel, theatre and sprawling...
...Gauguin’s “Pêcheur et baigneurs sur l’Aven” (1888) is a Brittany scene, painted with the colours of Martinique, which Sant bought for $2.9mn at auction in 2000 and now has a $6mn-$8mn estimate....
...The pre-cubist structure of staggered houses on a hill, “Sea at L’Estaque behind Trees”, belonged to Picasso, and a vibrant, tightly organised “Gulf of Marseilles” to Gustave Caillebotte....
...Alexandre Ghotbi, head of watches at Phillips for continental Europe and the Middle East, suggests service watches are largely a “thing of the past”....
...On May 18, Phillips hit its highest ever sale total of $192mn ($225mn with fees)....
...The highest price paid was £51.5mn (£59.4mn with fees; est £45mn, guaranteed), for René Magritte’s surrealist showstopper “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s on March 2, a record for the artist....
...The seasonal fruit gelati includes bergamot and jasmine-scented Principe di Calabria and Regno delle Due Sicilie, made using pistachios from Bronte (the village in Sicily) known as L’oro verde (green gold...
...Also in the lot is a version of Magritte’s masterpiece L’Empire des Lumières, which the Belgian artist gifted to his muse Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet....
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