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...He has publicly attacked Nicaragua’s “family dictatorship” led by Sandinista revolutionary Daniel Ortega and his vice-president wife Rosario Murillo....
...In one memorable afternoon he flits from Thomas Belt, author of The Naturalist in Nicaragua, through Britain’s unwritten constitution, to 21-year-old Nelson’s fibs to the crown over his disastrous attempt...
...There he met Thomas Merton, a friendship that spawned a famous correspondence between the two poet-priests....
...Famously, the Rubells also gave a residency to the then-unknown Colombian artist Oscar Murillo, now an international star and shortlisted for Britain’s Turner Prize....
...“On the one hand, Barcelona is benefiting from the recovery,” said Patricio Palomar Murillo, head of alternative investment at CBRE Spain, a commercial real estate company....
...Oscar Murillo’s chocolate factory, for which the artist imported Colombians to work in a New York gallery, is recreated with chocolate-coated tennis and golf ball sculptures – over-consumption meets elitist...
...… Meanwhile, in Paris, Thomas Bompard, who was with Sotheby’s for 12 years, is opening a new gallery on the Rive Gauche opposite the Louvre, in the former Camoin-Demachy antiques gallery....
...Magritte’s “Les vacances de Hegel” (a glass of water balancing on an umbrella, 1958); Delvaux’s portrait of a conference of skeletons in a library “Waiting for the Liberation” (1944) facing Thomas Schütte...
...One morning in 1814 he strolled anonymously into the Amsterdam gallery of William Coeswelt, fell in love with Spanish painting and bought on the spot a group of works including a Velázquez, Murillo’s fluid...
...Murillo, who can be a saccharine artist at times, excelled himself in the large-scale “Christ at the Pool of Bethesda”....
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