Why fashion illustration is no mere sketch but a form of fine art
HUNG, DRAWN AND COLLECTED ‘I’m usually there, sketching at table four, and there’s always the same woman at the next…
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Is art an asset class? We take stock
CREATIVE ACCOUNTING In order to appeal to the stock-ticker-watching generation of investors, art has been subjected to much attempted classification…
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Will the UK-Russia Year of Culture warm up frosty relations?
BEAR HUGS This year has been designated the UK-Russia Year of Culture, and its first display of delicate artistry came…
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Art14’s Global Private Museum Summit gathers super-collectors in London
As Spear’s has written before, private museums are a major modern phenomenon: collectors are putting the art they own into…
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Art14's Global Private Museum Summit gathers super-collectors in London
The summit gives Art14 heft and importance: other art fairs, to their presumed jealousy, cannot bring together so many grade-A,…
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Review: Candide at the Menier Chocolate Factory
The recent tube strike, combined with torrential rain and the temptation to chase guerrilla-style Prince concerts around London, made my…
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Dating services for the wealthy pluck the heart – and purse – strings
Despite opening a great many doors, the privilege of wealth rarely bestows one with the keys to the heart. Risk…
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Review: The Weir at Wyndham’s Theatre
‘The Weir’ is a gripping production, acted in a timely confidence, unafraid to let the clock tick, the drink speak…
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Alex Matchett reviews Conor McPherson’s The Weir, now on at the Wyndham’s Theatre ’The Weir’ is a gripping production, acted…
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Review of Peter Grimes at the ENO
I’m utterly blown away by the ENO’s revival of David Alden’s production of Peter Grimes. Everyone is raving about this…
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The irony of Pop art’s anti-consumerist mass market appeal
POP GOES THE EASEL Most of the art world’s ‘-isms’ began as gangs. Or perhaps cults. The Impressionists were the…
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Will aggressive activist investors keep Sotheby’s on the money?
BIDDING WAR Sotheby’s finds itself locked in a battle with Dan Loeb, one of New York’s most aggressive fund managers.…
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In London’s social jungle, the HNW cougar is queen
London society is a jungle, and like most jungles, various predators prowl it. The latest to stalk into my binoculars’…
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Female barristers, bankers, entrepreneurs and recently enriched divorcees are filling some of London’s most notorious hot spots looking for their…
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Cirque du Soleil returns to London with show-stopping Quidam
Cirque du Soleil’s Quidam at The Royal Albert Hall, from January 4th 2014 Cirque du Soleil returns to London with…
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25th anniversary of the death of Salvador Dalí: What do his paintings say?
Author: Aoife Moriarty Today marks the 25th anniversary of the death of one of surrealism’s most famous figures, Salvador Dalí.…
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Family frivolity meets with sour faces at unyielding New York co-op
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK We’re moving. It’s official. Down the block to a 1950s monstrosity that looks like a…
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British woodland’s role evolves through the ages yet remains a national treasure
A FIR FIGHT In fairy tales, foresters are usually jolly fellows, perhaps negligent in the matter of their children, gingerbread…
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Christie’s hits sales record in 2013 boosted by Lucian Freud and China
Auction house Christie’s set its own record today: last year it made £4.54 billion ($7.13 billion) in sales, up 14…
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Christie’s made ’4.54 billion in sales, up 14 per cent, the highest total ‘in the history of the art market’,…
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