Category: Art & Culture
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Charities to share in £45 billion art market
IT DEPENDS on how you assess it but the latest Tefaf art market report estimates that global auction and private sales raised some $45 billion in 2016. An Art Basel report by UBS puts the value even higher. Either way, it is a huge market. Now some of the run off may go to helping […]
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Jane Austen and a steep learning curve on Box Hill
MARKING 200 YEARS since the death of the great Jane Austen, a hotel at the foot of the famous hill which plays a pivotal part in her novel Persuasion has come up with a novel walking tour. The Mercure Box Hill Burford Bridge Hotel, to give the establishment its new title (it used to be […]
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Can art transform base ideas into gold?
Koons, Hirst, underwater sculpture parks and other deep sea monsters
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Gipsy Kings and Dire Straits head back to Egypt for Soma Bay music festival
A year ago I booked a trip to Egypt’s Red Sea Riviera with two objectives: to escape January and find out why the newly formed Dire Straits Experience was kicking off its World Tour in Hurghada, No sooner had I booked a week at the misnamed Makadi Spa hotel (there being no spa) than the […]
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Why is this 15th century work of art cracking up?
Museum brings science to the art of restoration
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How art is used to sell luxury homes
Designers are hiring works to sell luxury property
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Culmstock: the door to divine Devon
The village nestled in the ideal locale for Devon adventures.
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Best of the world’s art shows
Andrea Watson highlights exhibitions being held in London, Toronto, Washington DC, Bilbao and Monaco and previews two major contemporary art sales
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Christiana and the trouble with Udopea
Self-style indie community that wants to bite the hand that protects is
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Discover John Steinbeck’s heavenly home in England
“The countryside is turning as lush as a plum…..There’s a quality here that I haven’t known for very long. The 20th century seems very remote.” So wrote John Steinbeck in 1959 when he was living in Somerset and researching his book on King Arthur. Later, in an interview, he said that he had been happier […]