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...The highest-wattage sale this fortnight, of the collection of 31 works from the late arts patron Emily Fisher Landau, came in at the low end of expectations at Sotheby’s on November 8, making a total of...
...Email me: robert.armstrong@ft.com Recession talk Bill Dudley, who used to be president of the New York Fed, wrote this in Bloomberg on Wednesday: It’s hard to know how much the US Federal Reserve will...
...Brougham, barouche, landau and phaeton are all types of what? What relation was Prince Albert to Kaiser Wilhelm II?...
...Christopher Landau, US ambassador to Mexico, admitted in a conference call last week with Mexican executives: “I can’t lie....
...David Folkerts-Landau writes that Europe must cut a grand bargain with Italy....
...It’s 10am on Tuesday, the opening day of Art Basel, and I’m talking to Robert Landau, a “grand doyen” of the fair....
...The Rise and Fall of American Growth, by Robert Gordon, Princeton University Press, RRP£29.95/$39.95 This is the most important book on economics in many years....
...Robert Irwin kicked off a lecture earlier this month with a tale of his cousins going to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1966 to see his work....
...Harding; Della Huff/Alamy; Robert Landau/Alamy; Instagram @rgarrahan; Susanne Kremer...
...Both galleries are new to Frieze, and Robert Landau’s often important works do not reach public eyes as he neither sells nor lends to museums (“they take too long to make up their mind and send 17 committee...
...The government’s relaxation of planning rules earlier this year has had a significant impact, according to Robert Davis, Westminster council’s deputy leader....
...Maker Studios, one of the biggest online video networks, has brought in new investors to join a shareholder roster that includes Elisabeth Murdoch and the film star Robert Downey Jr....
...Time Warner’s investment group is joining a line-up of Hollywood names including Robert Downey Jr and Elisabeth Murdoch in backing Maker Studios, the popular online video network that aims to link YouTube...
...London has other advantages over listing in Hong Kong, according to non-executive director Robert Goddard: “Chinese investors like to have investments fully offshore – not just in Hong Kong.”...
...On one occasion the star, played in the movie by an immaculately coiffured Michael Douglas, was driven on to the stage at the Las Vegas Hilton in a silver Rolls-Royce Landau, emerging clad in a $300,000...
...For Huw Hilditch-Roberts, the institute’s director in charge, it is a question of scale....
...Parts two and three, directed by Robert O’Hara, are dominated by Ogun, an auto mechanic, and Elegba, who is in love with Ogun’s younger brother Oshoosi....
...Tim Robbins, an inventor, Bill Murray, a mayor, and Martin Landau, a bum, are the lead grown-ups in a dystopian fable at once overworked and underwrought....
...He has charmed and cajoled a ream of big hitters, among them Landau of Montreal and Quebec (which this year brings a substantial little-known late Picasso) and New York’s Acquavella....
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