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...niece Marian (Louisa Jacobson) is debasing herself by teaching painting instead of finding a suitable suitor....
...In the 1916 election, between Woodrow Wilson and Charles Evans Hughes, the size of prediction markets reached the equivalent of $280mn in today’s dollars, according to a paper by the economists Paul Rhode...
...Three of five paintings by Paul Klee sold for below their low estimates while an early painting of Marie-Thérèse Walter by Picasso, estimated at between $15mn and $20mn, sold for $8.4mn ($10mn with fees)...
...The 18-wheelers the company wants to replace are immortalised in a painting that hangs in a corridor of the Bentonville headquarters....
...The oval-shaped painting depicting cows and sheep resting in a pasture now hangs near his desk....
...Future colonies, including Maryland, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania, would mix religious toleration with business aspirations....
...More than one-third of the total sale figure — $54.5m, including premiums — was a single painting by Edvard Munch, “Girls on the Bridge” (1902), snapped up by a single bidder....
...Last year Sotheby’s sold a rediscovered John Constable painting for $5.2m, which had sold in 2013 at Christie’s for $5,200....
...- Today in tech land: a 5 foot tall panda statue made of chrome that (supposedly) cost about $100k for Dropbox, and Evan Spiegel has a painting of Jobs hanging in his office....
...When Christie’s and Sotheby’s battled for market share in the last decade, it “really eroded margins in the core business” of auctioning paintings, said Evan Beard, US head of Deloitte’s arts and finance...
...Michael Platco is a former art teacher who has taken to Snapchat’s simple tools and colour palette, which he describes as like “finger-painting”....
...Christopher Isaac “Biz” Stone, 40, co-founded Twitter in 2006 with Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams. From under 200 tweets a day in the first year there are now over 500 million a day....
...Many of the brightest hopes in the West Coast tech industry are led by the design savvy, from Airbnb – where two co-founders met at the Rhode Island School of Design – to Square, where chief executive Jack...
...… A Way of Living: The Art of Willem de Kooning, by Judith Zilczer, Phaidon, RRP£59.95/$100 “Any kind of painting, any style of painting – to be painting at all – is a way of living . . ....
...Creativity, Inc – a finalist for FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year – explains the failures, the tensions and the ultimate accolades from Finding Nemo to Toy Story....
...It made 3D light paintings using an iPad during work for ad agency Dentsu....
...Although the bursts seem to arise in the universe far beyond our Milky Way galaxy, “there are many mysteries to unravel” about their origins, says Evan Keane of the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy...
...Reynolds adds that while people would traditionally hang paintings and photographs to elevate a space, such an investment is not an option for everyone....
...I have been friends with her since the 1970s, when she was Brian Eno’s girlfriend,” Rhodes says. Other paintings by Duggie Fields add more colour and interest to the room....
...Evans, a prolific writer on Algerian history, sets new standards in weaving together the metropolitan French and north African threads of the story....
...Some of the pieces are really mixed – we picked up the sofa from a flea market, and we integrated it with some contemporary B&B Italia chairs, a Paul Evans table and a 1940s Jean Prouvé daybed.”...
...Artists will love this. 10:43 – Next is Brushes, an iPhone painting app, let’s see how this looks on the tablet. 10:42 – Now Martin Nisenholtz from the NYT is showing off his paper on the tablet....
...For those with wider horizons, Vic Reeves’ Vast Book of World Knowledge, an exquisitely illustrated alphabet of educational paintings, has the potential to be this year’s coffee-table sleeper hit....
...One of those dealers was Lelands founder Josh Evans, who offered Heffner a job when he finished college....
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