A new report by veteran art market analysts Michael Moses and Jianping Mei of JP Mei & MA Moses Art Market Consultancy, argues that the 2024 spring auction season was “the worst overall financial performance” for the art market this century. The report, titled “How Bad Was the Spring 2024 Auction Season? Financially as Bad…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — His leadership strained by conflicts on two fronts, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told world leaders at the United Nations on Friday that his nation will “continue degrading Hezbollah” until achieving its goals along the Lebanon border, further dimming hopes for an internationally backed cease-fire to halt the spiral into an…
Reuters President Zelensky met Donald Trump at the end of a six-day visit to the US Donald Trump met Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky at his New York base in Trump Tower on Friday and said it was time Russia’s war in Ukraine was settled. The Republican presidential nominee has repeatedly criticised the Ukrainian leader on the…
In a campaign ad this month, Derek Tran, a Democrat from Orange County, California, blasted his opponent, Republican U.S. Rep. Michelle Steel, for supporting a national abortion ban and voting to limit access to birth control. Democratic challenger Will Rollins also called out his rival, Rep. Ken Calvert, and “MAGA extremists” in an ad last…
A couple who engaged in a sex act on a plane in front of other passengers have been convicted of outraging public decency. Bradley Smith, 22, and Antonia Sullivan, 20, were escorted off an easyJet flight by police on March 3. The pair, from Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, had been returning to Bristol from a…