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...When John Quinn, the renowned Los Angeles-based lawyer and art collector, joins our Zoom call, I’m surprised to find he’s in his car. Has he been working from there?...
...Richter’s record at auction stands at the equivalent of $46.4mn, made for a 1986 “Abstraktes Bild” sold at Sotheby’s London in 2015....
...Today, the family firm – which merged first with Chrysler and is now part of the Stellantis conglomerate – is helmed by Elkann’s older brother John, but Lapo has been living up to Gianni’s legacy of fast...
...In many ways, the position of the Conservatives now, John Major in 1997 and indeed, Gordon Brown in 2010 does look similar....
...Gerhard Richter in St Moritz In 1989, German artist Gerhard Richter sought advice on where to go on holiday from the Swiss curator Dieter Schwarz, who suggested the Waldhaus, a very traditional, family-run...
...Hollywood Soundstage Sinfonia of London (Chandos) John Wilson’s Proms concerts of Hollywood soundtracks and Broadway musicals have become annual showpieces....
...Last year one of Swift’s stadium gigs caused a tremor in Seattle measuring 2.3 on the Richter scale due to the combined noise and movement of the show and the spectators. “Wow, she really did it!”...
...Gerhard Richter designed a huge abstract window on Cologne Cathedral, a joyful pixelated mass of colour....
...The collection features artworks from Jasper Johns, Alberto Giacometti, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gerhard Richter, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, David Hockney and Yayoi Kusama....
...The first part of the auction also included pieces by Georgia O’Keeffe, Jasper Johns, David Hockney, Gerhard Richter, Louise Bourgeois, Wassily Kandinsky and Sandro Botticelli....
...Do you acquire what the market boosts or fashion promotes — one each of Koons, Warhol, Richter and Twombly, say? Not if you’re Ronald Lauder....
...You might end up being an artist like Gerhard Richter, who just built and built, but you also might not,” he says....
...In my first Art Basel, I sold a [Gerhard] Richter abstract for $240,000.” At this year’s fair, Richter’s “I.G.” (1993) sold for an undisclosed price, put at “above $10mn” by the gallery....
...Guests at her table ranged from Margaret Thatcher and Elton John to Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, former secretary-general of the UN....
...Jones’s breathtaking resort show in front of the pyramids of Giza last December was accompanied by a live performance by the Max Richter Orchestra; for the recent AW23 show in Paris in January, he worked...
...abstract is better than that Richter abstract, but also the people who ask, ‘Who’s Gerhard Richter?’”...
...Additional reporting by Sarah Neville in London, Silke Richter in Berlin and James Shotter in Tel Aviv...
...Thomas Richter, chief executive of BVI, one of the asset management trade bodies that lobbied for a delay, said that the original implementation deadline would have only left five weeks to comply....
...The strongest tremor measured 2.9 on the Richter scale, with some residents alleging damage to their properties....
...In the summer of 2019 energy company Cuadrilla Resources halted fracking tests at a site in Lancashire after it triggered an earth tremor with a magnitude of 2.9 on the Richter scale....
...Pianists at the 18-hour show included a young John Cale....
...The highest price of the evening was $33mn for Gerhard Richter’s 1994 “Abstraktes Bild” ($37mn with fees, est $35mn)....
...His post-minimalist sound draws as much from composers like John Cage and Steve Reich as it does from the punk bands he listened to as a teenager....
...“Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Kippenberger were all there. Cologne is not a large city so we were all immersed in it.”...
...john.plender@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Recalling Hamilton’s great insight about borrowing / From Faisal Sheikh, Managing Director, Monmouth Capital, London W1, UK...
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