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...Totals at Sotheby’s and Christie’s came in at the low end of expectations, already revised down after a number of withdrawals, while Phillips’ slim sale of £10.9mn (£13.7mn with fees) on March 7 didn’t quite...
...Previous acts and artists include The 1975, Katy Perry, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Janet Jackson....
...A contemporary German Christmas carol set the seal as an encore. ★★★★☆ It was equally good to see St John’s, Smith Square, filled for the Tallis Scholars, one of the prime events in the venue’s 37th Christmas...
...On May 18, Phillips hit its highest ever sale total of $192mn ($225mn with fees)....
...Buying agent Carol Peett of West Wales Property Finders brokered 12 sales for between £750,000 and £1.25m in that period — and three sales of £1.5m still going through conveyancing....
...Bobby Phillips voltaireandrousseaubooks.com...
...In a controversial 1950 essay, the Australian critic and academic AA Phillips coined the term “cultural cringe”....
...They were joined by a host of individual executives, from Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett to Citigroup chief Jane Fraser, more than 60 law firms, and celebrities including Samuel L Jackson, Katy Perry...
...In 17 Church Row , James Carol (Zaffre, RRP£7.99) riffs on our uneasy relationship with technology....
...“We hear a lot of talk about partnerships but if a supplier says it cannot agree to certain terms, then the retailer can always go somewhere else,” Ms Perry says....
...A few months later, Phillip Hughes, an up-and-coming batsman, was knocked unconscious by a ball in a freak accident and later died in hospital....
...This column went to press before another Self work was offered at Phillips on Thursday....
...It’s a little rolling gallery in my pocket, where I can find daily inspiration (Ishbel Myerscough; Anna Malina; Carol Robertson; the wonderful Stephen Ellcock, of whom the justly maligned verb “curating”...
...Phillips has secured the first public sale of a large 1957-59 Alberto Burri work (up to $15m) and a white-ground 1945 painting by Joan Miró (up to $18m) while Christie’s also fields a $300m-plus collection...
...The DoE said in a statement that the energy secretary, Rick Perry, had authorised the SPR to negotiate the “emergency exchange agreement” with the refinery, which suggests the plant was facing a shortfall...
...The richest of these must be from Nancy Lee and Perry R Bass, Texans who for 40 years amassed works of vibrant colour and expression that seem likely to chime with today’s buyers....
...Perry Aldred Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, UK...
...Carol Bove’s stainless steel “Eros” (2017) proved a fast sell at David Zwirner (priced at $750,000)....
...A portable typewriter, designed by Ettore Sottsass and Perry King in 1969 and estimated at a ludicrously low £300-£500 sold for £36,000 (£45,000 with fees)....
...In December 2018, the former US Defense Secretary, William Perry, said that the climate threat compares to nuclear war....
...On display will be design classics such as a Vespa scooter made by Piaggio, an early Sony Walkman designed by Nobutoshi Kihara, an Olivetti typewriter by Perry King and Mikhail Kalashnikov’s AK-47 assault...
...So in that sense the Fed can matter a great deal, but just like where are you on the Phillips curve today, how long before… I think it’s much overrated, it takes up too much of macroeconomic discussion....
...Robin Lane Fox’s ‘Augustine: Conversions and Confessions’ (Allen Lane, £30) was published last month Photographs: Jason Ingram; Clay Perry...
...My favourite store is SJ Phillips. It’s been there for 146 years, and it’s a treasure trove of antique and period jewellery....
...God-fearing Mum chides his curiosity, delivering admonishments in the loud-mouthed, big-mama manner that Americans have learnt to love from Eddie Murphy and Tyler Perry....
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