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...She opens Fernberger gallery with a show of new pastels and paintings by the California-born Nicole Wittenberg ($10,000-$82,000)....
...Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” (c1500) has burst into the record books as the most expensive work of art ever sold, going to a (so far) unidentified buyer for $450.3m (with fees) amid gasps and cheers...
...Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was found in October....
...But Da Vinci, Velázquez and Munch sound disturbing. They paint with many shades of the same colour, so they produce notes that are too close together....
...Covent Garden purists were ready to be outraged by Anna Nicole, Mark-Anthony Turnage’s new piece on the life of glamour model Anna Nicole Smith, but some critics called it an “unlikely triumph”....
...Nothing here achieves the psychological subtlety we see in Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”, David’s “Madame Recamier” or even Sargent’s “Madame X”....
...She winces over the film The Hours, starring Nicole Kidman as Woolf. “It was so annoying to us. It was this business of going to Harrods to fetch ginger for the children’s tea....
...Only yesterday The Da Vinci Code wowed us with heresies about a Jesus Christ blood line....
...Shooting begins this summer on The Da Vinci Code, starring Tom Hanks, and Spider-Man 3 is under way, with a fourth instalment at the scriptwriters....
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