Hints and tips:
...It recalls the previous two records from the west African supergroup which were produced by Liam Farrell, aka Doctor L, best known for his work with Kinshasa noise band Mbongwana Star....
...Before I experienced Barkley L Hendricks’ revelatory retrospective at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2008, I had never seen more than a couple of his works at a time....
...Christie’s total, up 17 per cent on last year, was boosted by 25 Surrealist works, which included the week’s top lot, René Magritte’s late “L’ami intime” (1958), hammering to little fanfare for £29mn (£33.7mn...
...“For cabinets and beautiful, small side tables, it was a way of making wood look like a jewel,” says L’Objet founder Elad Yifrach....
...Roles at Gap and Tommy Hilfiger followed before she returned to the UK for the creative director job at Jigsaw....
...These shapes have many facets to play with, and everyone from the Lebanese L’Atelier Nawbar to William Welstead, Alice Cicolini to Gucci, has been seduced....
...[Gallerist] Nina Johnson once gave me a Nicola L piece; it’s called Forest, and it was from a show that Nina had of Nicola’s work....
...Works by Willem de Kooning, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cy Twombly join Magritte’s “L’Empire des lumières” (1951, est $35mn-$45mn) and “Le Domaine d’Arnheim” (est $15mn-$25mn)....
...David Hollingworth, director at L&C mortgages, said it was a “real positive” that some lenders had already started to come back with fixed rate mortgages, which should lead to “more competition, sharpening...
...L-I-B-O-R. Harriet Clarfelt As the acronym kind of suggests, it started off in the UK. So it started the 1980s with the British Bankers’ Association....
...Denise L Ramos, a director on its sustainability committee, has a surprising side gig: chair of the public policy and sustainability committee at Texan oil refiner Phillips 66....
...£26.99 a half Uncorked, London Legras & Haas, Chouilly Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Brut 2012 ChampagneA label founded by Nicolas Legras of R&L Legras and his wife Brigitte Haas....
...Phillip Hennche, the brand’s director of channel innovation, says the partnership generated “huge” interest....
...The top price was £59.4mn for René Magritte’s “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s....
...“Markets are ripe for a correction, or greater, at this point,” said Phillip Toews, chief executive of US asset manager Toews Corporation....
...A Hard Rock International hotel joined Times Square earlier this month while developer L&L Holding and its partners are on track next year to open a $2.5bn tower with a luxury hotel, theatre and sprawling...
...Gauguin’s “Pêcheur et baigneurs sur l’Aven” (1888) is a Brittany scene, painted with the colours of Martinique, which Sant bought for $2.9mn at auction in 2000 and now has a $6mn-$8mn estimate....
...The pre-cubist structure of staggered houses on a hill, “Sea at L’Estaque behind Trees”, belonged to Picasso, and a vibrant, tightly organised “Gulf of Marseilles” to Gustave Caillebotte....
...Alexandre Ghotbi, head of watches at Phillips for continental Europe and the Middle East, suggests service watches are largely a “thing of the past”....
...On May 18, Phillips hit its highest ever sale total of $192mn ($225mn with fees)....
...“There are no equivalent 100 per cent mortgages in the standard market,” says David Hollingworth of UK mortgage broker L&C....
...The highest price paid was £51.5mn (£59.4mn with fees; est £45mn, guaranteed), for René Magritte’s surrealist showstopper “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s on March 2, a record for the artist....
...Georges Braque’s “L’Oiseau volant vers son nid” is a small collage and gouache version of the Pompidou’s grand 1955 painting....
...Alighieri gold-plated bronze L’Aura choker, £700. Model and UK coordinator for a global children’s charity Fern Gray, 54, wears Fendi cady dress, £1,550, and leather sandals, £995....
...What will happen if little Tommy is denied his baby Yoda? What kind of parents will we look like if we cannot shower our offspring with plastic tat?...
International Edition