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...Following a show he curated at Galerie Chenel – where his art deco pieces were displayed in dialogue with Adrien, Gladys and Ollivier Chenel’s antique sculptures, and which attracted the Parisian tastemakers...
...Wearing a soft Zegna turtleneck, Saint Laurent blazer, Celine jeans and velvet Repetto boots, de Givenchy exudes an understated glamour that matches her genteel demeanour....
...Two works of 43 were withdrawn prior to sale, by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Mark Bradford, while Bradford was also one of two artists whose works went unsold....
...Most recently I listened to someone reading a feature about the artist Mark Bradford in The New York Times....
...I had a marvellous evening last night at the Royal Festival Hall, listening to the Philharmonia Orchestra play one of my favourite pieces of music: Jean Sibelius’s fifth symphony....
...This staggering collection numbers more than 7,000 works — in several dozen separate gallery spaces you can find paintings, sculptures, photographs and videos, many by today’s great names: Jean-Michel Basquiat...
...Jean Fisher, an occupational health nurse who runs a consultancy in Wales, has had people tell her they are “frightened to go for their hospital appointments because they’ll get more [Bradford] points and...
...Bradford, dressed in his customary white jeans and T-shirt (at once workmanlike and debonair) and reclining in an office chair in the middle of his vast studio, is the picture of health and composure....
...Bradford described four of Plymouth’s men sent “fowling” but in all likelihood they returned with duck or geese....
...Here, alongside peers such as Theaster Gates, Mark Bradford and Christoph Büchel, Eliasson is forging a new model of the artist-activist as a potent global force....
...To create the image of the standing man, the Bradford-born artist used earlier photographs of Peter Schlesinger, his former lover, posing in Kensington Gardens, combining them with photos he had taken of...
...Although Carmignac professes to like art more than artists, the show opens with a portrait of him by Jean-Michel Basquiat. The pair met at a party in New York in the early 1980s, and hit it off....
...In France, for example, the economics Nobel laureate Jean Tirole criticises President Emmanuel Macron for not pushing this principle far enough in his ambitious labour market reforms....
...Bonhams, June 29 “Dream Deferral”, a 2009 collage by Mark Bradford, who is representing the US at the Venice Biennale, is a highlight (estimate £1m-£1.5m)....
...But the price gap is narrowing in this field: Julie Mehretu’s auction record stands at $4.6m while Mark Bradford’s is at $5.8m (both artists are African American)....
...The sentence, “I’ve always noticed shadows simply because there weren’t many in Bradford”, is not only blessed with a downbeat, Alan Bennett-like poetry but also reminds us how much art is bred from a painter...
...Paul Rogers, a terrorism expert at Bradford university and the author of a new book on Isis, calls the French security response “political symbolism”....
...Helly Nahmad has reimagined the lunatic asylums that inspired Jean Dubuffet and his espousing of Art Brut. Also on the stand are for-sale Dubuffet works, one asking for £750,000....
...Never mind, the folies de grandeur of past management are steadily being dismantled – or imploding – under current CEO Jean-Paul Chifflet, who is determinedly steering the bank onto an altogether safer course...
...In addition to exercise and beauty treatment rooms, there was a library filled with books on beauty and art from her collection, including sculptures by Elie Nadelman, a Jean-Michel Frank lamp and a carpet...
...Such flexibility on dividends is possible at all because chief executive Jean-Laurent Bonnafé has secured a head start on French peers Crédit Agricole and Société Générale by systematically strengthening...
...“Dungarees have that effortless ‘borrowed from the boys’ vibe that can be seen as incredibly sexy,” says Octavia Bradford, buyer at Net-a-Porter....
...A hop, skip and jump away, White Cube offers Mark Bradford, while Perrotin, in its breathtaking gallery on an upper floor, shows Jean-Michel Othoniel and Ryan McGinley....
...Tonight Erik fitted right in with his suede oxfords and tailored jeans and he bantered easily with the hedge fund manager sitting next to him....
...Fifty-Six: The Story of the Bradford Fire, by Martin Fletcher, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99 Fletcher was 12 when he went with his father, brother, uncle and grandfather to watch Bradford City play football on...
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