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...Marilyn Martinez, project manager for fashion at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, says that repair has become part of the customer-service offering at high-end retailers such as Selfridges, Harrods and Browns...
...And then came George Dyer, a petty thief, loosely associated with the Kray twins, with whom Bacon spent the 1960s....
...That would be held back for the performer’s teary, cathartic swan song, though I can’t believe it turned into the full Vera Lynn singalong depicted here....
...And then the serenities of Symphonic Variations, that contemplation of emotional, physical and spiritual selflessness, lustrously done by Yuhui Choe and Yasmine Naghdi, James Hay and Tristan Dyer, Marianela...
...He added that the top two works to sell during the night, which included the sale of Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer” for $46m at hammer, had not been covered by minimum price...
...Shortly after the death of Mr Gray, state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby charged six officers involved in his arrest and death and promised to “deliver justice” on his behalf....
...that of the Hotel des Saint-Pères, where Dyer committed suicide on the eve of the retrospective....
...Gathering trophy works that have not been seen together in six decades — Willem de Kooning’s ferocious “Woman II” from MoMA in New York, Jackson Pollock’s swan song “Blue Poles” from Canberra — the exhibition...
...While a yellow Fontana “Concetto spaziale, la fine di Dio” (1964) and a Louise Bourgeois “Spider” (1996/97) set new records at $29.2m and $28.2m respectively, the top lot, Warhol’s “Four Marilyns” (1962)...
...Andy Warhol’s White Marilyn (1962), meanwhile, went for $41m. Christie’s boss Mr Murphy dismissed the idea that a bubble was developing in the market....
...As Jim Holme, of the Dyers’ Company, explained to me, swan meat was never especially appreciated for its taste....
...The Queen’s Swan Marker and the accompanying Swan Uppers of the Vintners’ and Dyers’ Livery Companies use six traditional Thames rowing skiffs in their five-day journey upstream to ensure that the swan population...
...“It turns anyone into an existential Avedon swan. Wrapping the throat in a swath of black cashmere subtly presents the head as an objet d’art.”...
...… The Contest of the Century: The New Era of Competition with China, by Geoff Dyer, Allen Lane, RRP£20/ Knopf, RRP$26.95 The FT’s Geoff Dyer looks at the emerging US-China rivalry....
...The hotel has always had a reputation for luxury – it is renowned for its gardens, flowers and a pond with three swans, which the hotel refers to, rather grandly, as Swan Lake....
...Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room, by Geoff Dyer, Canongate, RRP£16.99 Dyer’s clever and witty tribute to Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky’s cinematic masterpiece, is full of wry diversion,...
...A government district has been built 10 miles from the centre, including a town hall with two 30-storey curved towers that look on to a man-made water feature called Swan Lake....
...Amid all the mining industry outrage Down Under about Canberra’s plan to slap a 40 per cent “super profits tax” on resources companies, one is almost tempted to side with the Australian Treasurer, Wayne Swan...
...As Wayne Swan, Australia’s treasurer, put it this week: “Greece is a really stunning reminder there are still risks in the global economy”. Additional reporting by Roel Landingin and Peter Smith...
...It’s hardly as if a penalty shootout in the World Cup were a “black swan” event that nobody could have planned for. Nonetheless, Carragher places the ball on the spot, and scores!...
...Another highlight is Bert Stern’s portrait, “Marilyn Monroe, The Last Sitting” (1962). The exhibition continues until August 15....
...Crikey’s Glenn Dyer goes a step further, saying the RBA has definitively called an end of the global financial crisis....
...A 1904 piece, “The Couple”, for example, has the lovers’ heads swan-necking to kiss, their long arms flowing with Rodin’s dynamism....
...Annabelle Filer is a material girl – but not in the Marilyn or Madonna way. Her home is full of touchy-feely surfaces that put textural substance and sustainability on a par with style....
...BLACK SWAN GREENby David MitchellSceptre ₤16.99 The master of metafiction and multiple narrative does something entirely different with his fourth novel: he writes a straight-forward, single story set in...
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