Hints and tips:
...In 2010, the then emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, told the Financial Times that he would be interested in bidding for Sotheby’s rival, Christie’s, which is owned by the Pinault family....
...the publisher of the Tate Etc magazine, the pair opened with an enviable “Tate mafia” network and brought acclaimed and thoughtful shows of artists including Nancy Holt, Nathan Coley and Indrė Šerpytytė-Roberts...
...The exhibition is in collaboration with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, with individual photographs priced at $18,000-$110,000....
...Email us about something else: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, a Republican who twice ran for president and is among the party’s most high-profile critics of Trump, also declined to join a No Labels ticket last week....
...“Reads as if spoken into a tape-recorder and never read through afterward,” remarked Christie authority Robert Barnard of the original. The Venetian ambience is generously applied....
...Ackman, who has led a vocal campaign against Harvard University in recent months, also gave smaller amounts to Ramaswamy, Haley and Christie — and independent candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr....
...(Wildstein is also a veteran of the state’s politics with past involvement in the “Bridgegate” scandal that doomed Christie’s 2016 White House bid)....
...The interiors of the late collector and interior designer Robert Kime were a testament to this approach....
...Never Back Down’s $20mn-plus megadonor, Robert Bigelow, has flipped to Trump....
...Even though Christie dies horribly, Bateman’s fate is somehow worse. In so far as he can fit in, not only he but his murders, even amid confession, are invisible....
...Christie’s had the healthiest auction of the season so far on November 9, when 61 pieces of mostly 20th-century art sold for a within-estimate $543.5mn ($640.8mn with fees)....
...After they dropped out of the race, DeSantis, Tim Scott, Doug Burgum and Ramaswamy endorsed Trump, but Mike Pence, his vice-president, and Christie said they would not....
...Christie’s had the biggest haul this year, though its mixed owner sale on October 13 still came in below estimate at £36.4mn (£44.7mn with fees)....
...Wake us up with a bracing email: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com. CPI: just barely bad enough August’s CPI report wasn’t horrible....
...Christie’s top lot was Cy Twombly’s 2004 “Untitled (Bacchus 1st Version II)”, which went for $17mn ($20mn with fees), against an $18mn-$25mn estimate....
...There’s going to be a choice,” says Robert Wolf, a Democratic donor and former chair of UBS Americas who supports Biden. The former president’s own rhetoric has only boosted Biden’s case....
...Christie, for instance, only had $7mn in cash on hand at the end of June, while Trump’s former vice-president Mike Pence had just $2.9mn....
...Like all the Republican candidates, bar Chris Christie and Nikki Haley at the end, DeSantis refused to take on Trump because he feared losing “the base”....
...Senator Robert Kennedy was murdered in June 1968 in the ascendancy of his career....
...She really benefited from Tim Scott and Mike Pence and DeSantis and Chris Christie all kind of falling by the wayside....
...“There is a diversity of museums focused on decorative arts, huge numbers of interior designers,” says Simon Andrews, a design expert who worked at Christie’s for 26 years....
...An inevitable part of collecting, the late antiques dealer and interior designer Robert Kime once observed, is that it is often necessary to “sell something to get something better”....
...Christie’s Highlights from the oeuvre of Studio Ymer&Malta will be exhibited at the auctioneers on Avenue Matignon....
...In the mid-1980s, he made an appearance on Robert Kilroy-Silk’s Day to Day programme, to speak during a debate on the merits of the death penalty for child murderers....
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