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Global art market up slightly at $67.8 billion in 2022

The art market rose slightly to $67.8 billion last year despite an uncertain global climate, thanks to high-end and digital sales, an annual report said on Tuesday.. "The year 2022 saw the art market hold onto its post-pandemic rebound and strengthen further despite severe economic uncertainty and the return of war to Europe," said the report by Art Basel, a major organiser of art fairs, and Swiss bank UBS. Growth in the market came from sales of high end art and from digital art backed by non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

Tue, Apr 4, 2023 1 mins read

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Picasso: king of the $100 million club

Pablo Picasso, who died 50 years ago this week, remains the star of art auctions, with several of his works commanding record sums.. - Previous record-holders - In the last 20 years, two other Picasso works have held the record for the biggest art auction sale: "Boy with a Pipe", from May 2004 to February 2010, and "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" from May 2010 to May 2012, according to an AFP database.

Tue, Apr 4, 2023 1 mins read

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Nigel Lawson, Thatcher's era-defining finance minister, dies

Nigel Lawson, the politician whose tax-cutting zeal came to define Thatcherite economics in 1980s Britain, has died aged 91, prompting tributes from his Conservative descendants.. As chancellor in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet from 1983 to 1989, he enacted the policies of tax cutting, deregulation and privatisation that are the hallmark now of right-wing politics in Britain and beyond.

Tue, Apr 4, 2023 1 mins read

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Is it possible to have too much Picasso?

Why can't the world get enough of Pablo Picasso?. "I made it very decorative because the idea is that young school children and teenagers will come and see his work in a different light," Smith told AFP.  "Many of us have already seen Picasso many times around the world, so we hope to show it in a new way." ls-jz/er/pvh

Tue, Apr 4, 2023 2 mins read

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Picture this: Trump mug shot to join album of famous faces

There are countless pictures of Donald Trump, but if New York police snap his mug shot on Tuesday, it will instantly pass into history as one of the most famous.. One of the most famous mug shots in history is the Los Angeles Police Department's picture of former American footballer OJ Simpson, taken when they arrested him on suspicion of murdering his ex-wife and her friend.

Mon, Apr 3, 2023 3 mins read

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The porn star, the president and $130,000 in 'hush money'

In July 2006, real estate tycoon and reality television star Donald Trump met an adult film actress, Stormy Daniels, at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe.. These are the events leading up to the politically explosive case and Daniels' role in it: - Lake Tahoe - In her 2018 tell-all book "Full Disclosure," Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, recounts her fateful encounter with Trump at the Nevada golf resort on the shores of Lake Tahoe.

Mon, Apr 3, 2023 3 mins read

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Disney chief says Florida punishing its free speech

Disney chief Robert Iger on Monday said Florida's governor's is retaliating against the entertainment giant for exercising its right to free speech in an anti-business move that "seems really wrong.". "Any action that thwarts those efforts simply to retaliate for a position the company took sounds not just anti-business, but it sounds anti-Florida."

Mon, Apr 3, 2023 2 mins read

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Trump, Trump, Trump -- US TV turns to old habits

Call it "Trump Cam.". On Monday afternoon's showing of "Trump Cam," that didn't matter.

Mon, Apr 3, 2023 3 mins read

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Leonardo DiCaprio testifies in corruption trial against Fugees member

Leonardo DiCaprio was in Washington Monday -- not to press lawmakers on his environmental causes or to film another blockbuster hit, but rather to testify in a political corruption trial featuring a 90s hip-hop star and a disgraced Malaysian financier.. - 'That's a lot of money' - When Low eventually expressed interest in financing DiCaprio's 2013 film "The Wolf of Wall Street," the actor's lawyers and a private detective looked into the Malaysian financier, who is also known as Jho Low.

Mon, Apr 3, 2023 3 mins read

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BTS's Jimin first S. Korean solo artist to top US songs chart

Jimin, a member of the K-pop supergroup BTS, has made history as the first South Korean solo artist to land the number one spot on the top US songs chart, Billboard announced Monday.. Before the pause, BTS bagged six No. 1 hits on the Hot 100 and all seven members of the boyband have reached the top songs chart with solo tracks, Billboard said.

Mon, Apr 3, 2023 1 mins read