“And the best thing about Enzo is that he can do a bit of everything. But when it gets tough, you see the fight in him, you see him driving the group on, you see him making tackles, you see him fighting for every loose ball. He was exceptional today.” Source link
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“The moment Maresca left, it had a big impact on us. These are decisions taken by the club. If you asked me, I would not have made this decision. To make a change like that, the best thing is to wait until the end of the season. You would give everyone, the players and the new manager, time to get ready, have a full pre-season. Source link
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On Wednesday morning at 11 a.m., the VIP line for Felix Art Fair extended from the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel’s Blossom Ballroom out onto Hollywood Boulevard. And, as is always the case with this fair, the line for the elevators to ascend to the 12th floor was equally lengthy. For this reason—unlike the other fairs taking place during LA Art Week—the opening half hour was relatively quiet for exhibitors, as collectors, advisers, curators, and critics trudged through lines to reach the exhibition floor. When I finally exited the elevator bank, I found myself in front of Amsterdam-based gallery Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, participating in Felix for the second time. “Last year went really well,” founder Jeanine Hofland told ARTnews, noting that they had shown a solo presentation of Masao Nakahara, who this year shares the room with Karel Dicker. Dicker’s intimate genre paintings in artist-made wood frames are especially charming. The gallery had pre-sold several works ahead of the fair, denoted by the rare price sheet marked with red-dot stickers, and so far there had been …
I arrived in Los Angeles last Friday afternoon, expecting that the showers that drenched my hometown last week might have dampened spirits ahead of Frieze Los Angeles. That proved not to be the case—temperatures here have been steadily increasing into the mid-70s over the past few days—but it turns out that weather across the country, on the East Coast, had been the true problem for some attendees, who were left scrambling after a nor’easter blanked New York City in nearly two feet of snow. Jonas Albro, an associate director at Magenta Plains, which is participating in the new Enzo fair opening Wednesday afternoon, was slated to take a direct flight from New York to LA on Tuesday morning, but after it was canceled, he was rebooked three times. Speaking to ARTnews while en route to LaGuardia Airport, which doesn’t have direct flights to LA, he said he was flying to Pittsburgh, then taking another flight to Salt Lake City, and then another to LA. His expected arrival time is 10 p.m. PST, about eight hours …
Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, an ARTnews series featuring conversations with the figures shaping how the art world is changing right now. This year sees the introduction of two new major fairs: Art Basel Qatar earlier this month and Frieze Abu Dhabi in November. Those enterprises will almost certainly have an important impact on the market, both in the Gulf and globally. But this week in Los Angeles, one collector is thinking through how a smaller fair can also have big influence. Related Articles Founded by collector R Parmar, Enzo Art Fair opens on Wednesday afternoon in Echo Park. It joins Frieze Los Angeles (at the Santa Monica Airport) and Felix LA (at the iconic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel), now both in their seventh editions, and Post-Fair, which also takes place in Santa Monica and launched last year. Enzo, which will be staged at Parmar’s warehouse-size space Alabaster Projects, will feature nine galleries from New York. Enzo runs February 26–28, from 2 p.m.–8 p.m., with a VIP preview on February 25, from 2 p.m.–8 p.m. …
“It’s something I have worked on in training,” Fernandez said. “But the most important thing, I think, is also being in a good condition physically to get into those last few metres in the box, because I play in midfield and I have to get up and down a lot in my position. Source link
Hard-fought victory for Chelsea at the Bridge as stars return to the fold Source link
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