Hints and tips:
...“These are not big splashy paintings, but gems to be enjoyed and loved privately. We can reach those buyers....
...quality is high throughout the sale.”...
...The extension at the back of the fair, with 57 of the 156 exhibitors, feels like a separate event but is markedly better quality than at Fiac last year....
...“When there are so many fairs in a relatively short period of time . . . is there enough quality to go round?”...
...An admirable quality, friends say, was that she drew out the best from her interlocutor, while remaining modest about her own views....
...Luxury goods makers strive for perfection and buyers seek the finest stitching on a Hermès leather bag, the culinary precision of a Michelin-starred restaurant and the highest quality works of art....
...Salesforce.com, VMware, Dell and HP Inc also report....
...To save time, cut your nails with a high-quality pair of clippers, then file the edges. A nail oil such as the brilliant Nails Inc Superfood Repair Oil (£15) is like furniture polish for your fingers....
...Tech tools — Logitech StreamCam Peripherals maker Logitech has introduced the StreamCam, which is basically a webcam aimed at users looking to livestream in better quality....
...The M&A adviser’s job has three qualities that put its practitioners in a powerful bargaining position over their own pay. First, the stakes are very high....
...Saul Martinez at UBS noted that first-quarter charge-offs often see a “seasonal uptick” after spending binges at the end of the previous year....
...The picture quality is still decidedly low-res when compared with the latest iPhones, Galaxies or Pixels....
...They want quality and rarity in any field. This painting had both aspects, it ticked all the boxes.” But what about condition? I ask. “There were questions on that, we didn’t hide anything....
...“Sometimes it takes a little longer but good quality new buildings always get occupied. There’s this constant trickle up.” Silverstein did not grow up with wealth....
...“[Andy] Warhol was making 90 paintings a day — he was a like a factory — and some of the paintings were done by his friends....
...The techniques and quality of the work revealed by cleaning, plus the evidence of similarities to that engraving made by Hollar so many centuries before, seal its attribution as a true work by Leonardo....
...We now expect cinema quality on television.” The proliferation of streaming services such as Amazon and Netflix has boosted commissions for television shows....
...There were other grand claims among the opening speeches, including that of Jean-Luc Martinez, president-director of the Paris Louvre, calling Abu Dhabi’s “the most ambitious cultural project of the early...
...“But as the rideshare consumer becomes more sophisticated, they become more tuned into the quality of the experience, not the quantity of cars.”...
...I spot a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting on the wall, alongside works by Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Tracey Emin....
...It was clear they wanted to assess the technical quality of their forgery.”...
...A Willem de Kooning painting set a record at Christie’s evening sale on Tuesday, indicating that, despite financial market turbulence, buyers will still compete to pay top dollar for masterworks....
...A more careful look, however, reveals Chwast’s quest for quality and provenance....
...Artists can bring that Brechtian quality and ask about the metaphysics of the technology.” Some practitioners are already manipulating the medium....
...Daniel Loeb, Sotheby’s largest shareholder with a 9.6 per cent stake, last year mounted a public campaign calling the company “an old master painting in desperate need of restoration”....
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