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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How high-class Chinese mistresses are taking stock of the luxury market (and their lovers)
MORE THAN 1,500 years ago, China’s political hierarchy had already identified the role that concubines could play. The Jin dynasty…
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Monday Minute – 14th October 2013
This week, editor Josh Spero talks about why the Guardian’s got it all wrong: we should be *thanking* the Frieze…
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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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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
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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Art Wars – an exhibition of Star Wars Stormtrooper helmets transformed into works of art by some of the world’s…
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Author: Phaneendra Kumar Holding a special place in the hearts of gourmets, restaurants in Madrid hog the limelight whenever there…
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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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