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Andrew J. Hall, the former Citigroup Inc. oil trader whose pay package of about $100 million ensnared him in the fight over compensation at bailed- out banks in 2009, is selling handmade lavender soap and grass- fed Angus beef from a farm in Reading, Vermont.
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Last year, David Hockney reminisced to me about Francis Bacon, characterizing him as “the first intelligent painter I met who dismissed a lot of abstract art.”
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Two years after opening a Paris branch, Gagosian, the world’s biggest commercial gallery network, this week inaugurates a big space in Le Bourget -- on the grounds of a Paris airport where private jets land.
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“Open the door and leave it like that,” Thaddaeus Ropac tells one of his 60 employees as he crosses the courtyard of his new gallery on the outskirts of Paris.
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Billionaire Reinhold Wuerth, who has collected art for more than 40 years, last year spent about $70 million for a Holbein painting of the Madonna. It was the highest price ever paid for an artwork in Germany.
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Max Hollein, the director of Frankfurt’s Staedel Museum, is defying Europe’s debt crisis by expanding the museum underground to double its space and create room for some hefty loans from banks.
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London’s Royal Academy was founded in 1768, a few years before the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Nonetheless, it has been edging into the 21st century.
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Is it a flying saucer? Or a dinosaur emerging from the bowels of the earth? The new underground extension to Frankfurt’s Staedel Museum invites odd comparisons.
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The lethal-looking jet fighter, almost 15 feet long and welded together from thick sheets of lead, is too big to be a toy. With its corroded surfaces marked by drips and dings, it looks like an archaeological find from a long-ago battlefield.
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Works by Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman are part of an art trove that could fetch more than $100 million at Christie’s in New York next month.
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