Hints and tips:
...The spiky director Ruben Östlund (Triangle of Sadness) suggested in an interview last week that anyone planning to use a movie camera should need a licence, like a gun owner....
...No wonder Rubén Blades, whose 1978 Siembra with Willie Colón may still be the best-selling salsa album ever, quit law school and took a job in the Fania mailroom....
...They replaced him with Rodolfo Delgado, a former head of the attorney-general’s office against organised crime....
...If there’s any doubt that we’ve arrived at the Holy Grail for all salseros, there’s a giant mural over the dance floor based on Leonardo’s “Last Supper” — but with Oscar D’León, Rubén Blades and Johnny Pacheco...
...It’s not known who the sitter is but, Gordon adds, “as is often the case with Rubens, he projects himself into the portrait”. Rubens is believed to have kept the painting until he died in 1640....
...Barcelona-based Ignacio Mas and Daniel Delgado were the first (and are so far the only) hotelkeepers to bring polished concrete, textured steel and chic Catalan furniture to the distant reaches of southern...
...Eight works by Jean-Michel Basquiat from the collection of Johnny Depp will be sold over the two days....
...And walk in they do – Johnny Van Haeften, for one, sees on average 100 visitors a day during Master Paintings Week....
...Christie’s Tuesday sale has an upper target of £50m for 68 lots, and includes two paintings from Princess Diana’s family home Althorp: Rubens’ “A Commander being Armed for Battle” is looking for £8m-£12m...
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