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...June 10-April 28 2024, ysp.org.uk Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Modena Paintings (Fondation Beyeler, Basel) In 1982, the fast-rising art star Jean-Michel Basquiat was scheduled to open one of his first solo...
...Dalí made a painting of a grand room to look like the face of the Hollywood icon Mae West, his paradigm of womanly beauty, rendering her lips as the sofa....
...Rosie Lee Tompkins was born Effie Mae Martin to a sharecropping family in Arkansas, and began to earn a living exclusively from quilting in her fifties....
...This type of “blended finance” concept underpins the type of instruments found in American housing (where giants such as Fannie Mae also guarantee bonds)....
...The ECB cuts rates by half a percentage point and President Jean-Claude Trichet hints at further cuts....
...She joins from Squire Patton Boggs. Morrison & Foerster has hired Larry Medvinsky as a partner in its corporate department in New York. He joins from Clifford Chance....
...Law firm Squire Patton Boggs has hired Derrick Cephas in New York. He previously led the financial institutions regulatory practice at Weil, Gotshal & Manges....
...UniCredit chief executive Jean Pierre Mustier will step down next April. More here....
...Squire Patton Boggs has added three partners from Winston & Strawn to its Dubai office....
...She mingled with artists such as Dalí, Man Ray and Jean Cocteau and her clothes were worn by prominent women including Greta Garbo and Katharine Hepburn....
...Squire Patton Boggs has hired Peter Stewart as a partner in the law firm’s London office. He joins from Clyde & Co....
...The exhibition draws a direct connection between the flowing amoebic forms in the paintings of Jean Arp and Yves Tanguy — who fled the Nazi occupation of France to live in the US in 1940 — and the curved...
...Squire Patton Boggs has hired James Collis as a partner in the law firm’s financial services practice. Collis, who was previously a managing partner at Ashurst, will be based in London....
...The biggest impact is on five of the US financial institutions that endured huge losses in the financial crisis — Bank of America, Citigroup, AIG and mortgage groups Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — which will...
...Monarch is the latest carrier to be grounded, the victim of an internecine price war (FT) News Round-Up Unilever to buy Brazilian organic food business Mãe Terra (FastFT) Talks to take Nordstrom private...
...It was meant to be a safe bet as most of its assets were residential mortgage-backed securities issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...atelier d’artistes” outstages anything at either Frieze or Frieze Masters, although supremely well curated stands at the latter include Dickinson’s “Surrealist Revolution” – inviting you in via Dalí’s “Mae...
...Now he’s showered and holding court in his office, dressed in jeans, loafers and a checked shirt....
...Demand for works by Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) remains strong, with the French postwar artist looking likely to dominate the London auction season in early March....
...We are at ABC Kitchen, celebrity chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s bustling farm-to-table joint in Manhattan, where Rankine, 53, often eats since discovering, while undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer...
...‘Unrealism’, Moore Building, Miami, December 2-6. miami.com/moore-building Photographs: Gagosian Gallery; Ali Walker; Jean Vong; Victoria Miro Gallery...
...Last year, “Tod’s Band” campaign featured 15 personalities and fashion show regulars including Langley Fox Hemingway, Mae Lapres and Julia Restoin Roitfeld, while Chloé is currently popularising its bags...
...Her collaborations with artists such as Salvador Dalí, Cecil Beaton and Jean Cocteau broke down the barriers between the world of dressmaking and the fine arts....
...lobbyists under rules tightened by the past two administrations; Newt Gingrich, the Republican former speaker of the House of Representatives, described himself as a “historian” when on the books of Fannie Mae...
...Dean and Dan Caten of Dsquared2 added a sweeping train of ostrich and marabou feathers to a blush Swarovski crystal silk georgette gown (£19,865); Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy channelled Mae West in an ostrich-feather...
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