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Gerard Depardieu, the French actor just awarded Russian citizenship, praised his “special relationship” with Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov as he started filming a movie in the mainly Muslim Russian region.
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Hong Kong is taking center stage on the global conspicuous-consumption circuit this week as billionaires descend on the city to choose from Angelina Jolie’s diamonds, Andy Warhol’s paintings and bottles of Romanee-Conti.
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A first-edition copy of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” with handwritten notes by author J.K. Rowling sold for 150,000 pounds ($228,000) at a charity auction in London last night.
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David Chang of Momofuku Noodle Bar in New York and Paul Kahan of Blackbird, Chicago, were last night named joint winners of the accolade for Outstanding Chef in the U.S. at the James Beard Foundation awards.
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Some artists suffer more to create their work than others. Angela Su certainly has.
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Madonna, Leonardo DiCaprio and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen could help sell as much as $1.3 billion of art at the three New York auction houses this month.
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Fans who mourned the closing of El Bulli in 2011 got a chance to buy a piece of its history at a Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong yesterday.
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Sotheby’s sold HK$68.8 million ($8.8 million) of wine including bottles of Romanee Conti from the former El Bulli restaurant’s cellar during a two-day wine sale.
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Sotheby’s six-day auction in Hong Kong ended last night with a total sale of HK$2.18 billion ($281 million), led by wines from El Bulli’s cellar and a jeweled Patek Philippe clock that set an auction record for a clock by the Swiss timepiece maker.
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The editors and writers for Bloomberg’s Muse arts and culture section chose their favorite moments of 2012. Here they are, led off by Executive Editor Manuela Hoelterhoff:
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