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...Dealer Nick Maclean says that bidding at Christie’s on Francis Bacon’s “Landscape near Malabata, Tangier” (1963) — which went to adviser Francis Outred for a within-estimate £16.8mn (£19.6mn with fees) —...
...Trump is a trompe l’oeil candidate whose robust geopolitical ignorance, incoherent economic ideology and sheer divisiveness make him a threat to America’s constitutional republic....
...The science has certainly moved on from the 1830s, when the Belgian polymath Adolphe Quetelet began collating statistics on the l’homme moyen, or the average man....
...Equally great is the frescoed breakfast room, its trompe l’oeil columns spot-lit, its retro dining chairs painted a cheering shade of red....
...is also particularly special and under the purview of David Hawksworth, one of Canada’s most lauded chefs who spent more than a decade in British Michelin-starred kitchens (Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons, L’...
...The Rugby World Cup is continuing, and Pope Francis will be in Marseille over the weekend....
...Bang & Olufsen Beosound A9, £3,199 RM The portable barbecue This packable grill will allow you to channel your inner Francis Mallmann....
...Chief among them was the ultra-conservative archbishop of LA Cardinal James Francis McIntyre, who resented the IHM sisters’ liberal approach....
...Eight years ago, French theatre director Cyril Teste and perfumer Francis Kurkdjian arranged a rendezvous at a café in Paris....
...These shows inspired a cult for Soutine in the small avant-garde circle of artists — Leon Kossoff, his close friend Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon — loosely associated as the School of London...
...Having studied at the London Film School and worked with Bernardo Bertolucci on L’assedio and Anthony Minghella on The Talented Mr Ripley, she now directs features informed by the art she loves....
..., painterly impressions and contemporary photography, alongside essays by Vatican historian and journalist Caroline Pigozzi, and Giovanni Maria Vian, former editor of the Vatican City State’s newspaper L’...
...Cocotte jacket, £1,360 Versace Home cotton-terry I Love Baroque slippers, £350, amara.com Nadia Shelbaya gold and baroque-pearl 206 Bague ring, £1,785, matchesfashion.com Simone Rocha wool shorts, £625 L’...
...H: Commerzbank, L: Coinbase What was the name of the New Jersey deli that was at one point worth $100m?...
...The protesters outside were chanting “O-I-L-Y, you ain’t got no alibi”. Shell had probably already clocked that they were on the hook for issues around climate change....
...At its best, it’s deeper than the surface — a true connection with the ideologies and aims laid out by Breton and expounded through the works of artists such as Giorgio de Chirico, Joan Miró, Francis Picabia...
...Glorious disarray — mulch and junk, torn photos, scraps of notes (“the brutality of fact”, “highly controlled chaos”) — around the twisted “Study for a Portrait of John Edwards” in Francis Bacon’s studio...
...One upcoming exhibition that promises to be original and inventive is the Musée de l’Orangerie’s Aux sources des Nymphéas: le décor impressionniste opening in March — surely a mouthwatering prospect....
...And on my wishlist is a sculptural form by Kate Crassweller via L’Editions. I met Kate at university and we both moved to New York....
...The old assault course clichés are less in evidence now, but the movement remains extremely demanding with constant kickbox-y tours en l’air and much slamming of the side walls....
...$25 Cusk’s fictional reworking of Mabel Dodge Luhan’s 1930s memoir concerns the relationship between its female narrator, identified only as “M”, and her male house guest, an artist known throughout as “L”...
...The artists whose work I would collect if I could are Francis Bacon – I particularly love the Three Studies of Lucian Freud triptych – and Louise Bourgeois....
...The top lot was Picasso’s “L’Étreinte” (1969), a painting of lovers in a passionate embrace, which sold for £12.6m (£14.7m with fees, est £11m-£16m)....
...The Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) requires channels to showcase a range of opinions and impartially dole out time to politicians, especially during campaigns....
...Built from blue, red and white jigsaw forms in “L’Hourloupe”’s paintings and sculptures, this endeavour established the monumental, instantly recognisable Dubuffet through a family of stylised characters...
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