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Josh Spero
Josh Spero is the Senior Editor and Website Editor of Spear's. He has written for the Times, the Guardian and Time Out, and is currently writing a book.
Venezuelan sensation
Under Dudamel, the SBYO turn these notes and staves into a visceral, thundering, unutterably thrilling event.
The faces of Cindy Sherman
I don't think I've ever seen quite so high a patron:picture ratio as at the Sherman opening at Spruth Magers last night.
G20 liveblog
Read Josh Spero's liveblog from the G20 Summit here. Updated all day. Also check out his Twitter at twitter.com/spearswms
Art finally eats itself
An exhibition of blank canvases suggests either a post-modern stroke or a juvenile mentality. I'd plump for the latter.
The charm of the medieval
I suffer for Spear's. The latest outrage was having to review a villa near Perugia, so I took the chance to visit Siena.
Saturday sale of the century
Phillips de Pury is putting the first pieces of a collection within the realistic grasp of young professionals.
Sondheim on the stock exchange
Gene takes their money, blows it on a Park Avenue rental, pawns a car and requires a bailout. Sound familiar?
A line's many sides
The work is politically subversive: Mussolini is watching at all times, but he has no solidity, no definition. He is and he isn't .
Indian Summer blooms
The Jodhpur landscape paintings move into exploring planes and colour fields, more like Rothko than Rajasthan.
Art pays
When companies are as far in the hole as banks, selling an art collection can't raise enough cash to service the executive jet.
Unbillable Hours
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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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