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27/04/2024

Klimt's Lady with a Fan: The painting that sold for £85.3m

Left on Gustav Klimt's easel when the artist died in 1918, Lady with a Fan is the most expensive painting auctioned in Europe, selling for £85.3m – but what makes it a masterpiece?

The Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt is best-known for the immortalising opulence of such milestones of modern art as his gold-leaf-encrusted canvases The Kiss, 1907-8, and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907. But it is a rather less famous work – one that was still sitting on the artist's easel when Klimt died from pneumonia as a result of the flu in February 1918, a month after suffering a devastating stroke that had left him partially paralysed and unable to paint – that has become the most valuable work of art ever sold at auction in Europe, selling for £85.3m ($108.4m).

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25/04/2024

Taylor Swift is bringing in ticket sales of more than $13 million a night on the road — putting her on a trajectory to deliver the highest-grossing tour in music history.

Most of the money goes toward the cost of production, and that sum doesn’t include the additional millions of dollars in merchandise sales that the Eras tour is generating.

Swift is on pace to gross more than $1 billion, a threshold no artist has ever hit.

25/04/2024

To everyone celebrating in London & around the world - happy Eid al-Fitr!

This Ramadan, We've seen the kindness, compassion & empathy that's so central to the Islamic faith demonstrated at iftars with Londoners from all faiths & backgrounds.

From our family to yours: Eid Mubarak!

25/04/2024

Meet Kayla Itsines, The Internet's Workout Queen
-The 25-year-old fitness queen and multi-millionaire.
-Her “Sweat with Kayla” app generated $17M in revenue in 2016 according to app annie.
-Over 10M people worldwide spend $19.99 every month on her lifestyle program.

25/04/2024

25/04/2024

Facebook has finally unveiled its ambitious plan to create a new digital currency.

It’s called Libra, and Facebook wants it to transform the way money moves across the globe. Sounds simple, right?

Here’s what you need to know about the digital currency:
▪️It will be run by a nonprofit, the Libra Association, based in Geneva, Switzerland.
▪️Libra will be backed by relatively stable government-backed money, making it less volatile than Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

25/04/2024

Adobe can’t Photoshop out the fact its $20bn Figma deal is a naked land grab.

Adobe’s $20 Billion Takeover of Figma Faces EU Merger Review

-EU sets a provisional deadline of Aug. 7 for in-depth probe
-Deal is also facing scrutiny by UK and US authorities

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