Tag: Paris

Economic ties between nations foster peace. Or do they?

By noreply@blogger.com (Newsrust) Russia war in ukraine Not only reshaping the strategic and political order in Europe, it is also upsetting long-held assumptions about the complex linkages that characterize the global economy. Millions of times a day, vast exchanges of money and goods cross land borders and oceans, creating enormous wealth, even if unevenly distributed. […]

Record sale for Magritte at London auction: Sotheby’s

By Agence France-Presse “L’Empire des lumieres” was sold for £59.4 million ($79.4 million, 71.4 million euros) in London on Wednesday, shattering the record for a work by Belgian artist Rene Magritte. The Surrealist work, described by London auction house Sotheby’s as “a masterpiece of 20th century art”, had a guide price in excess of $60 […]