The first lot, a work by the American conceptual artist Mike Bidlo, “Not Picasso (Bather with Beachball),” estimated at $60,000 to $80,000, went for $1.3 million with fees. The collector Peter Brant, seated in the third row, bought the third lot, Francesco Clemente’s “Fourteen Stations, No. XI,” for $1.9 million, over an estimate of $80,000…
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The woman who has accused the celebrity chef Mario Batali of groping her at a Boston bar in April 2017 spent several contentious hours testifying on Monday, the opening day of his criminal trial on charges of indecent battery and assault. The woman, Natalie Tene, 32, who has also filed a lawsuit based on the…
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Global health officials are increasingly concerned about what many are calling “Covid fatigue,” as world leaders deal with crises like the war in Ukraine, or turn to other pressing health concerns. “Donors are predominantly saying, ‘Oh, we want to get back to, you know, whatever it was that they prefer funding like maternal child health,…
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It can be difficult to get Quentin Compson — my 10-year-old, wire-haired rescue dog — to rise from her bed. But one guaranteed way is to boil an egg. The second I break open that shell, I know that I can look down at my feet and see her standing right there, tail wagging, waiting…
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Many highly skilled cooks in the region have been overlooked for years, said Hanna Raskin, a former restaurant critic for The Post and Courier in Charleston, who writes a newsletter about Southern food. “The elite of the Lowcountry have a long history of taking Black women for granted.” The book might never have been published…
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Raimonda KulikauskieneGetty Images In terms of essential garments, nothing feels (or looks as good) as a pair of jeans. Ever since Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss introduced the sturdy twill fabric in 1873, denim has been worn by just about everyone, from the Hollywood elite to royals and normies alike. With such universal fanfare, in…
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“Raw wine” is an appropriate label for the category of natural, low-intervention, biodynamic and organic wines, that is wines not made using conventional methods. Isabelle Legeron, the first female Master of Wine in France and an authority on the wines, has created the Raw Wine Club. Subscriptions, each with six bottles and Ms. Legeron’s tasting…
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Inside “Zabar’s: A Family Story, with Recipes,” there’s a family tree for the deli dynasty from 1870 to the present. Lori Zabar, the author and family historian who died in February, provides a map of Ukraine, showing Ostropol, where the Zabarkas were rooted before emigrating to America and shortening their name. Ms. Zabar, a lawyer…
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Three Americans died under mysterious circumstances and another was hospitalized on Friday while they were staying at the Sandals Resort on Great Exuma Island in the Bahamas, the authorities said. The Bahamian police went to the hotel after a staff member found one of the travelers, a man, unresponsive in his villa on Friday morning,…
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Art in the form of meal kits is the latest from Active Cultures, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that brings art and food programming to the public. Called Home Assembly, the limited-edition kit, available through this summer until sold out, has of a plate in the style of Daruma (a Japanese symbol of perseverance and luck…
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