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 &…
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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Monday Minute – 16th September 2013
In this week’s Monday Minute Josh Spero discusses how we can relate relics from the Pompeii Exhibition at the British…
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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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The new Jaguar F-Type is f-f-f-fantastic!
TYPE WRITER William Cash effervesces over the new Jaguar F-Type. Top down, foot down, off he goes! My original idea…
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An unintended consequence of QE: an art market boom
A LOT TO BE DESIRED Growing, growing, gone! A curious side-effect of the US Federal Reserve’s monetary easing is a…
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National Gallery sending Masterpieces on a Grand Tour
Paintings are, from time to time, called tours de force, but now three masterpieces are being forced to tour. (Groan.)…
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HS2 should speed ahead
Anyone who has been fortunate enough to take the Eurostar will have felt no small wonder at the speed and…
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Monday Minute – 9th September 2013
In this week’s Monday Minute Josh Spero gives us the inside word on the 2013 Spear’s Book Awards and discusses…
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Review: Collecting Art for Love, Money and More by Ethan Wagner and Thea Westreich Wagner
Texts on collecting art tend to the pious (and thus dishonest): one only collects for love! tends to be the…
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Now Sol Kerzner: everybody needs a private island
You really are nobody if you don’t own a private island these days. The latest person to have joined the…
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