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Frieze Week: Wednesday
When the fair finally opened, orange stickers appeared on works' labels like a rapidly-spreading outbreak of chicken pox. Plus, Spear's talks to Joe La Placa, who has founded a contemporary collection with (gasp!) a hedge-fund manager.
Frieze Week: Tuesday
'Bacon? Who's he? Never heard of him,' says Damien when I ask him about his influences. 'I prefer eggs and beans.'
Frieze Week: Monday
Laurence Graff told Spear's that he had always wondered what it was like to stand on the other side of the podium instead of sitting in the front rows
Cakes for the Eye
Regarding the stiff, sugary edifices of Mich Turner's spectacular cake creations, one gets the feeling that this baker isn’t awfully comfortable with the yielding, sensuously uneven flesh of naked cake. These cakes are layered up, buttoned-up, fastidious.
Captions Required: Bull!
Dealbreaker, one of spearswms.com's favourite blogs, has come up with this pic and we want your captions.
Bonhams Talks Straight
To Bonhams on Bond Street this morning for a refreshing breakfast - and I don't just mean the orange juice.
Perpetual Patronage
It seems like only yesterday that Hedgehog was sitting in the VIP lounges at Design Miami/Basel and Art Basel (held in Basel, as opposed to Design Miami and Art Basel Miami Beach, which are held in Miami), observing the art world's patrons.
You Bastards!
Spear's occasionally receives unwarranted hate mail. Here is the latest piece - unsigned, of course.
Love the Sinner
Bestselling novelist Nicholas Coleridge has a Christmas card list that is at least 600 names strong, so it was no surprise that the launch party to celebrate the publication of his latest society blockbuster, Deadly Sins, set in the Hampshire worlds of New Money and Old Money, should have been packed.
Unbillable Hours
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I have been reading in the press recently that if you are not a UK citizen it is going to become more difficult to divorce in the UK. Is this true?
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It is a fact that in recent years there has been an increase in ‘forum shopping’ divorces and London has been described as the divorce capital of the world.
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