Why fine-art collecting is not dissimilar to compulsive hoardin
I REMEMBER ONE of the first times I saw my mother cry. It was over a set of 200-year-old Chinese…
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Frieze Week carries the danger of isolating London in solitary wealth
‘It’s anthropology,’ said my New York friend over for Frieze Week in London. ‘What do you mean?’ I responded. ‘We’re…
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Frieze Special: Fraud and fakery are no surprise in the art world – just ask Modigliani
Author: Abdus Shuman Ralph Lerner, a high-profile art-world lawyer — he has worked with Steven A Cohen, the Gagosian Gallery…
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Frieze Special: Why Detroit should sell its art
ON 18 JULY, Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, seeking protection from its creditors. The city appointed Kevyn Orr as…
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Best of the weekend’s papers: London property as reserve currency, JP Morgan grinds to a loss, sex and death and paintings
1. London’s great exodus (New York Times) The property market is no longer about people making a long-term investment in…
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Josh Spero’s Frieze Week Diary
Monday Art fairs visited on Saturday: two. Exhibitions visited: one. Pounds paid for Fortnum & Mason breakfast tea in a…
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Josh Spero's Frieze Week Diary
Every year, Spear’s editor Josh Spero brings you news, reviews and gossip from Frieze Week, when London is filled with…
ByArts Wars turns the dark side into the art side
Art Wars – an exhibition of Star Wars Stormtrooper helmets transformed into works of art by some of the world’s…
ByWinner of sixth Meurice Prize for Contemporary Art announced
The sixth Meurice Prize for contemporary art has been awarded to Neïl Beloufa, represented by the Galerie Balice Hertling. True…
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Surprise, surprise: Millionaire men fear dating wealthy women
Millionaire men prefer to date non-millionaire women as they don’t like to be challenged by their partners, while HNW women…
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Books to look forward to in 2014
Author: Peter Matthews From macabre comedy and gory, middle class cannibalism in Natalie Young’s Season to Taste, to the second…
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Best books to read ever
Author: Peter Matthews Time and time again, the same culprits crop up on every publication’s ‘Best Books’ list, from Austen…
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Best boarding schools
Author: Peter Matthews When it comes to choosing which boarding school to send your son or daughter to, the many…
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Best books of the decade
Author: Peter Matthews For anyone who enjoys reading, being asked to name your favourite book from the last ten years…
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Western auction houses master art of selling to the East
EAST BUYS WEST The efforts of auction houses and dealers to help Chinese, Russian and Indian collectors acquire a taste…
ByWatch: Why we’re a lot more like the Romans than we might imagine
This week, editor Josh Spero talks about his visit to the British Museum’s Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum…
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Sotheby’s multiples sale shows prints booming, gap in art market widening
It’s only a change of name, but it says a lot more. Sotheby’s is holding its first London Prints &…
ByWatch: Why we're a lot more like the Romans than we might imagine
This week, editor Josh Spero talks about his visit to the British Museum’s Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum…
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Sotheby's multiples sale shows prints booming, gap in art market widening
More people are buying multiples because actual art-objects are becoming increasingly expensive It’s only a change of name, but it…
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A Role in the Hay: Clive Aslet gets literary festival fever
Authors could spend their whole lives at literary festivals without leaving these shores, their egos so massaged that they’d lose…
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