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Is Hirst looking to cut out auction houses?
Has Damien Hirst's hugely successful sale at Sotheby's gone to his head? As the second and final day of the auction brought in another £41m on top of Monday's £70.5m, fanciful gossip
in the London art world suggests that after sidelining his dealers, Hirst may now cut the auctioneers out... [continued]
What they are saying about Damien Hirst 
People: Damien Hirst Sotheby’s show a success despite economic crash
In pictures: Hirsts on sale at Sotheby's, London
In pictures: Damien Hirst party
Author picks up where Douglas Adams left off
After 16 years, a new title in the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series is to be published. Its creator Douglas Adams (pictured) died in 2001 after writing five installments but now the children's author Eoin Colfer has been chosen to take up the story. Colfer, 43, best known for... [continued]
London Fashion Week: Stella sexes up sport, Christopher Kane sparkles
Stella McCartney stole the show yesterday with her latest sportswear collection for Adidas modeled by Team GB Olympic medalists (pictured above). As the theme tune for
Match of the Day struck up, cyclist Victoria Pendleton strolled around 'Stella’s Gym' with her gold medal accessorising slouchy, rather sexy gym attire from... [continued]
London fashion designers feel the squeeze
In pictures: London Fashion Week
All the pictures from New York Fashion Week
Brokeback author’s porn problem
The author of Brokeback Mountain, the novella which inspired the blockbuster film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger, has complained that the book has become "the source of constant irritation in my private life". Annie Proulx, the 73-year-old Pulitzer Prize winning author, has claimed that ever since the... [continued]
Meet Tony Lomas: grim reaper of business
The collapse of Lehman Brothers is bad news for the 4,500 staffers in London who look like losing their jobs, but Tony Lomas is doing good business. Known as the "pop-star
pallbearer", Lomas is the chairman of Pricewaterhouse Cooper’s Business Recovery Group. When a business goes under, Lomas... [continued]
Lehman exposes Wall Street's moral bankruptcy
The Business Pages
HBOS: Lloyds TSB rides to the rescue
In brief: Tropic Thunder in London
Ben Stiller's Hollywood parody Tropic Thunder, which sparked protests at its recent opening in the US where it was criticised for making fun of the mentally disabled and
showing actor Robert Downey Jr blacked up, received its UK premiere last night. But there were no protests in Leicester Square, only... [continued]
People: Disability groups lash out at Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder
People: Carla plays second fiddle to Sir Paul
Katie Couric: yesterday’s news
US Election 2008: Palin interview: how did she do?
Dawkins and Winston clash in Reiss row
Two of Britain's best-known scientists - Richard Dawkins and Lord (Robert) Winston (pictured) - are at loggerheads today (not for the first time) after the
director of education at the Royal Society, the country’s top scientific institution, was forced to step down following pressure from several of the society's leading... [continued]
Royal Society or Rotten Society?
Bad night with de Niro for Sarko’s news girl
Laurence Ferrari (pictured), the glamorous nightly news anchor for France’s TF1 channel, is having a rough time at work. Only weeks after replacing France’s longest-serving
broadcast journalist Patrick Poivre d’Avor - PPDA to his fans - Ferrari has been criticised for delivering her lines ineptly and... [continued]
Sarko favourite Ferrari ousts PPDA for France’s key TV job
National Gallery gets to grips with modern art
Nicholas Penny, director of the National Gallery, has raised eyebrows in the London art establishment by announcing shows for next year that appear to tread on the toes of Tate Modern. A walk-through installation recreating Amsterdam's red light district is among the highlights of the 2009 exhibition programme unveiled this... [continued]
