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…
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Arts 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…
ByBest restaurants in Madrid
Author: Phaneendra Kumar Holding a special place in the hearts of gourmets, restaurants in Madrid hog the limelight whenever there…
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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Monday Minute – 7th October 2013
This week, Spear’s editor Josh Spero talks about the FBI’s closure of Silk Road and what this has to do…
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Sitwell Scoffs: Deer stalking in Scotland
It was my birthday, but no London restaurant celebrations for me. We got into the car and drove to Perthshire,…
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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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Bytes and Billions – Spear’s Wealth Insight Forum
Our third session at the Spear’s Wealth Insight Forum was ‘Bytes and Billions: How can wealth managers meet and support…
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Monday Minute – 23rd September 2013
Do the rich really live longer, better lives? In this week’s Monday Minute Josh Spero explores the differences in health…
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Sitwell Scoffs: Dishoom Café, Hardy’s Brasserie, Monty’s and Aubaine
SO CONTINUES MY diary of unrelenting gluttony. And since it only ever focuses on the three days a week that…
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Sitwell Scoffs: Café Rive Gauche
THE LATE, GREAT, obnoxious, rude, funny and shy Michael Winner often railed against what passed for a greeting in restaurants.…
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On a Rolls: Nick Foulkes ditches the family 4×4 for a newer, sexier model
AUTO EROTICA ‘We wafted serenely as if transported on magic carpets of sublime comfort and rocketed along with the confidence…
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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…
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Rich pickings: Super wealthy clients can have such poor taste in curtains
‘Good ain’t cheap and cheap ain’t good’: So proclaimed my Texan godmother (who is an interior decorator) to a client…
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 &…
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