Hints and tips:
...Ibiza is, to many, the ideal portal to escape and fantasy, but few can have taken it as far as Patrick Cox....
...Rawsthorne, featuring Bacon’s portraiture after 1950 and his impact on the genre....
...The immoderate noshing stands in stark contrast to predecessor J Patrick Doyle (CEO 2010-18), whose personal pizza tabs were far lower....
...More details have emerged about the run-up to Sotheby’s acquisition by the billionaire businessman Patrick Drahi last month....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My expectation is that growth will slow to below 1 per cent. Big issues are what progress is made in Brexit discussions....
...Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen 5. Songs from the Big Chair, Tears for Fears 2015 (so far): 1. In the Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 2. X, Ed Sheeran 3....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...That Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud regularly headline auction results is not news. This pair, however, are classed as “contemporary”, whereas it is the “modern” brigade who are now making their mark....
...Read her review of the V&A’s new show ‘The Cult of Beauty’ ………………………………………….....
...The second most important risk is a prolonged global recession – especially in the USA....
...Patrick French’s biography of V.S. Naipaul will be published by Picador in March. He is also author of ‘Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land’ ………………………………………….....
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