Managing Family Art Wealth Demands New Standards and Techniques
Many wealthy families are art lovers, own collections or actively buy and sell in the art market. As younger generations…
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Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order
Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order Philip Coggan Allen Lane, 304pp Review by Christopher Silvester Buy Paper…
ByCheek by Jowl: a History of Neighbours
Cheek by Jowl: a History of Neighbours Emily Cockayne Bodley Head, 288pp Read more by Peter York High Concept Historians…
ByWho’s the next Picasso of Property Prices? Why Artists Can Do Wonders For Local Housing Markets
Painting the Town Gold Anthony Haden-Guest says art has a long tradition of turning undesirable quarters into housing hotspots. Who…
ByWhy Does Art by Women Artists Still Sell For Less?
Let’s Talk About Sex For centuries our attitudes towards female artists, and the art they produce, has been horribly prejudiced…
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The Rest of the Mediterranean Could Learn From Turkey
Down in the Dolomites Italy and Greece are all doom and gloom if you believe the ‘awfulising’ mass media —…
ByTurner Prize 2012 Review
IS THIS THE finest Turner Prize to have ever been staged? A question like that could usually be dismissed as…
ByCountry Life Cartoonist Annie Tempest’s ‘Leap of Faith’ into Sculpture
Going for Bronze Annie Tempest’s Tottering-by-Gently cartoons have surprised and delighted readers of Country Life for years. But after her…
ByWhy People Move From Finance To Art
THE ART OF THE DEAL Melanie Gerlis meets the ex-bankers who have swapped futures for Futurism and are now flourishing…
BySotheby’s to sell $50m Picasso, Nature Morte aux Tulipes
Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 5 November 2012 in New York will be led by an exceptional…
BySotheby’s to sell works from George Embiricos’ estate
Sotheby’s is honored to announce the sale of eleven works from the estate of Greek shipping magnate George Embiricos in…
ByVitrine Bermondsey Street Gallery Opens In Time For Frieze
While East London has for sometime held the title of avant-garde hotspot, the art world’s attention has moved in a…
ByBenedict Silverman Is Selling His Schieles at Richard Nagy
THE VIENNESE SUCCESSION Benedict Silverman has spent decades assembling the best of 20th-century German and Austrian art — and now…
ByWhitechapel Gallery’s Collecting Contemporary Art Course
24 September–14 October 2012 Whitechapel Gallery, E1 Website The Whitechapel Gallery’s essential course offers a chance to go behind- the-scenes…
ByAndrew Motion on Saving the British Countryside and Writing Poetry
MOTION APPROVED Sir Andrew Motion tells John Hinton why he delights in his new role as the guardian of rural…
ByArticle of the Week Preview: Andrew Motion on Saving the Countryside and Writing Poetry
Andrew Motion on the future of the countryside: He is more confident about the English countryside than most. ‘I think…
ByFerdinand Mount on The New Few and Growing Inequality
Right Up Mount’s Street For one of Thatcher’s boys, Ferdinand Mount certainly has a social conscience, as his new book…
ByAn HNW ABC: QRST
The sixth instalment of our lexicographical endeavour, a dictionary for the super-wealthy Qatar: Everything in Britain is now owned by…
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TV is Broken as an Art Form
Faulty Reception The sad fact of the matter is that most of today’s TV is rubbish. Even the good stuff.…
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The Discriminator is the Last Surviving Olympics Sceptic
Surely Some Mistake It makes no sense to boast of London having ‘won’ the right to host the Olympics, since…
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