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Oscar Wilde

February

Michael and I are Just Slipping Down to the Pub for a Minute, 1992, by Lin Onus. This painting in gouache on board, from a Sydney private collection, will be offered through Smith & Singer on April 8, 2025, at an estimate of $200,000 to $300,000.

Barry Humphries’ estate tops $9m as NY Indigenous sale returns

The first works to feature in big local auctions are emerging on the back of a blockbuster sale of Barry Humphries’ personal collection in London.

  • Elizabeth Fortescue

October 2024

Gina Rinehart sitting for a portrait in Paris.

Gina Rinehart’s portrait keeps getting younger

The country’s richest person looks to be on a mission to re-cast her image since the Namatjira controversy earlier this year.

  • Mark Di Stefano

July 2023

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom starred Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman.

Meet one of history’s most influential designers

One of the most imaginative minds in American culture, costume master Ann Roth is being recognised for her influence over 50 years of iconic movies.

  • Maureen Dowd

April 2023

A VHS tape of ‘Rocky’ at Heritage Auction, in Dallas, Texas on Jan. 19, 2023.

Yes, people will pay $40,000 for an old ‘Rocky’ tape. Here’s why

Collectors are finding that their childhood has a price – and it’s going up.

  • David Streitfeld

January 2023

ChatGPT isn’t strong on important financial calculations and metrics that can change in real time.

What ChatGPT can do for your investments

We test the chatbot to evaluate its capabilities and potential benefits for portfolios.

  • Tim Mackay
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August 2022

Ulrich Koerner.

Credit Suisse still needs to get its legacy costs down

Banks are adept at applying a ‘legacy’ label to settlements for misconduct. The fact remains that these costs are material to the shares, both in forfeited cash and as tokens of toxic culture.

  • The Lex Column

September 2021

Eryn Jean Norvill in The Picture of Dorian Gray, STC’s big 2020 hit which will return in 2022, and be toured in partnership with Michael Cassel Group.

Sydney Theatre Company to return in November

It becomes the first major performing arts company from a locked-down state to announce new performances, and also has a deal with Michael Cassel Group to buoy it.

  • Michael Bailey

August 2021

Convict artist Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, portrait of Robert Kennedy Nuttall, c. 1842, being offered for sale for the first time in 179 years, at Bonhams in Sydney on August 24 with an estimate of $100,000 to $200,000.

Pictures by the real Dorian Gray make market debut

Two rare portraits by convict artist Thomas Wainewright, the English dandy and suspected serial killer who was the inspiration for Dorian Gray, are on sale for the first time.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

December 2020

Shoppers walk through New York's Times Square. The latest from the OECD is less gloomy about the immediate economic impact of COVID-19 than it was in June.

A light shines in the gloom cast by COVID-19

The latest from the OECD is less gloomy about the immediate economic impact of COVID-19 than it was six months ago. We must now take the measures needed to restore confidence and bring economies back to life.

  • Martin Wolf

August 2020

Johnny Depp arrives at court.

Johnny Depp, the High Court and the reality of fame

The libel trial brought by the Pirates of the Caribbean star says as much about the dazzle of celebrity as the quest for truth.

  • Henry Mance

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