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...Her gallery’s art fair sales included Jordan Wolfson’s “Red Sculpture” (2016-22), which sold to Shanghai’s Long Museum for $900,000....
...But trade provided “a significant boost” to eurozone GDP this year, according to Melanie Debono, an economist at research group Pantheon Macroeconomics....
...Strong prices were also made for the young, living artists at the start of the sale, including Jordan Casteel (b/1989) whose painting of her mother, “Mom” (2013), sold for £420,000 (£515,250 with fees),...
...Sandra Jordan’s Hidden Beauty series (2015-18) depicts concrete buildings in a stark, face-on format (up to £1,260), while Danielle Peck’s Dreamland series (2013) shows interiors in the British seaside town...
...“You can bend the rules plenty when you get upstairs,” says Staten Island’s Tess McGill, as played by Melanie Griffith in Mike Nichols’ excellent Working Girl....
...Two very different works — a 1973 portrait of the late King Hussein of Jordan and one of his daughter Princess Alia Al Hussein from 1982 — sold for £97,000 and £188,000 respectively at Bonhams’ Middle Eastern...
...Rayyane Tabet’s “Steel Rings” replicates an American pipeline from Saudi Arabia to Lebanon; disused, it still runs across now impassable borders between Syria, Jordan and Lebanon....
...the region, its women and its artists, according to Claire Marie Pearman, programme and development associate at Caravan, the arts non-governmental organisation that opened the exhibition initially in Jordan...
...At New York’s current Whitney Biennial, Jordan Wolfson’s “Real Violence” (2017), in which the artist relentlessly beats a victim with a baseball bat, carries a 17-certificate....
...The 10 exhibitors were Tomasz Donocik, Fernando Jorge, Hannah Martin, Alexandra Jefford, Husam El Odeh, Jo Hayes Ward, Hillier London, Jordan Askill, Melanie Georgacopoulos and Sophie Bille Brahe....
...Melanie McShane of Wolff Olins, the brand consultants, says private equity could help US and European luxury brands expand in fast growing markets such as China....
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