All posts tagged: Estate

The Third Estate: Devil’s Tango by Debbie Berlin

The Third Estate: Devil’s Tango by Debbie Berlin

Published by Jenni Sidey

There is a moment early in The Third Estate: Devil’s Tango by Debbie Berlin when a funeral congregation, ostensibly gathered to mourn, quietly repositions itself — knees angling, shoulders opening lanes of fire — and you realize this book has no intention of playing by ordinary thriller rules. Mourning on the surface, readiness underneath: that phrase could describe the entire novel. The second installment in The Third Estate series is a sleek, propulsive espionage tale that pairs a razor-sharp medical student with the one man she has every reason to hate, then dares them both to survive the music. Setting the Stage: Where the Dance Begins Captain Sophie Allard has rebuilt her life with almost surgical precision. A former fighter pilot turned medical student on a trauma rotation in Denver, she measures her days in rounds, protocols, and a running feud with a hospital vending machine that steals her money with criminal regularity. Then a gunshot victim is wheeled into her trauma bay, grabs her coat, and whispers a message meant for someone else entirely. …

Peugeot 308 SW: Estate of the art

Peugeot 308 SW: Estate of the art

Published by Daniella Wilson

There are many good reasons to buy or lease a new Peugeot 308 estate, or SW (for Station Wagon) as they call it, and few to avoid it. By far the most compelling, if irrational, is that this slightly ageing design is actually extremely attractive, and not just for a mere estate car. Indeed, given the ubiquity of the SUV/crossover these days, seeing an estate is a bit of a novelty, and makes one an avant-garde, individualistic choice. As I’ve chuntered many a time before, an estate, ceteris paribus, is always superior to its SUV/crossover counterpart (in this case the Peugeot 3008) because it has a lower centre of gravity and therefore is better, ie more stable to drive. But in this case the looks match its sporting pretensions, and the relatively recent “facelift” of styling, dating back to 2021, is extremely successful. Triple-up: the tail lights mimic the lion’s claw design of the headlights They’ve had some fun with the headlights, giving them the lion’s-claw, three-pronged “slash” treatment, and the Peugeot lion badge is …

NDP 2000 Shine On Me video: Mystery HDB estate traced

NDP 2000 Shine On Me video: Mystery HDB estate traced

Published by Sam Flores

Some believed they had pinpointed the exact location. One user wrote: “Serangoon North Avenue 3. Some of the nicest and biggest flats in that cluster, but also some of the worst accessibility by public transport, even till today.” Another added: “Looks like Block 550+ at Serangoon North Avenue 3, but it was probably filmed from a different block.” Armed with those clues, the OP did some detective work and came up with a theory about the filming spot. “I did a bit more exploring and think that the MV was probably shot from Blk 550A (the MSCP) facing east. “You’ll see the following blocks from left to right: 548, 549 (the block at the back that you were referring to), 550 and 554. Mavis Hee was probably standing on the rooftop of the MSCP, or perhaps the MSCP was not yet built at the time of filming.” MSCP refers to multi-storey carpark. Turns out the mystery had been bugging more than one person. One commenter wrote: “[This is] a question that I have had for …

One Direction’s Liam Payne’s M Estate Will Go to His Son

One Direction’s Liam Payne’s $29M Estate Will Go to His Son

Published by Daniella Wilson

The $29 million estate of Liam Payne, the late One Direction singer who died after falling from a balcony at a Buenos Aires hotel in 2024, will go entirely to his son, according to court documents made public this week. Payne, who made millions at a young age while performing with the wildly successful boy band, died in October 2024 with no will. Because he left no instructions for the handling of his estate, the total amount — recently listed as $28.9 million in the latest Letters of Administration, reflecting the settlement of further debts and costs — is being administered under British intestacy rules. In May, the singer’s former partner, named Cheryl in court documents, was made administrator of his estate alongside attorney Richard Mark Bray. Payne and Cheryl shared a son, Bear, who was 8 years old at the time of his father’s death. Court documents obtained via the British government’s probate search website show that the gross value of the One Direction star’s U.K. estate total was at $38 million with a …

Hurley Is Collaborating with Keith Haring Estate on Capsule Collection

Hurley Is Collaborating with Keith Haring Estate on Capsule Collection

Published by Jenni Sidey

The streetwear brand Hurley, which is known for surf and swim apparel, has released a capsule collection inspired by Keith Haring, one of the most recognizable and oft-licensed American artists. The collection includes cotton T-shirts, board shirts, bucket and trucker hats, bathing suits, and sweatshirts for men and women, with prices ranging from $28 (a black mesh trucker hat featuring one of Haring’s blue dancing figures astride a two-legged figure that looks like some kind of dolphin/human hybrid, standing in the waves) to $100 (a reversible one-piece women’s bathing suit featuring dancing daisies on one side and an allover flower print on the other). Source link

Gladstone Gallery Now Represents the Estate of Pope.L

Gladstone Gallery Now Represents the Estate of Pope.L

Published by Jenni Sidey

Gladstone Gallery now represents the estate of Pope.L, the boundary-crossing artist whose performances and conceptual art left an indelible mark on contemporary art. The gallery will mount its first solo show for the artist in 2027 in New York. Gladstone will represent Pope.L with Modern Art in London and Vielmetter Los Angeles, which both represented the artist at the time of his death in December 2023. (At that time, Pope.L was also represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash, which closed its New York space the following June.) Source link

Thaddaeus Ropac Takes on Martha Diamond Estate

Thaddaeus Ropac Takes on Martha Diamond Estate

Published by Jenni Sidey

Thaddaeus Ropac has taken on the estate of Martha Diamond, the New York painter whose cityscapes are admired by artists yet largely under-recognized on the market. The gallery will represent the estate in collaboration with David Kordansky, with a first European museum survey set to open at the Sara Hildén Museum in Tampere, Finland, in September 2026. Diamond, who died in 2023 at 79, spent more than six decades developing a body of work that translated the architecture of Manhattan into a distinct visual language. Her canvases, often built from repeated, vertical lines, hover between abstraction and figuration, capturing not the literal skyline so much as its essence. Source link

Hauser & Wirth Takes Representation of Carol Rama Estate

Hauser & Wirth Takes Representation of Carol Rama Estate

Published by Jenni Sidey

Hauser & Wirth, one of the biggest galleries in the world, has added yet one more artist to its roster: Carol Rama, whose estate Hauser & Wirth will represent alongside the Berlin-based Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi. Rama was one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century. Working in Italy, she produced paintings about female sexuality that belonged to a style all her own. Often featuring bulging eyes and women with their tongues sticking out, these paintings do not cleanly conform to the tendencies of any artistic movement, making the self-taught artist a particularly fascinating figure within recent Italian art history. Source link