Can the panic by investors be justified? Jan 22, 2008
Christopher Wood, a strategist based in Asia who publishes a widely read newsletter called Greed & Fear, pointed out in a note published this weekend that the potential insolvency of bond insurers like Ambac, MBIA and ACA Capital speaks to a larger market correction that has not yet been grasped by policy makers. "Greed & Fear's view is that with the bond insurance business model fast unwinding, a full-scale crisis could be coming," he wrote. (International Herald Tribune)
Cabinets of curiosity Jun 30, 2007
It takes place within the gallery and then threads through the house containing Ede's collection of Gaudier-Brzeska's sculpture, paintings by Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, David Jones, Christopher Wood and other artist friends. Kettle's Yard was given to the university in 1966 for the delectation and enlightenment of students. (Guardian Unlimited)
30,000 for Sheffield supermodel portraitA TINY drawing of a tragic Victorian supermodel whose family came from Sheffield could fetch up to 30,000 when it goes up for auction next month. Jan 27, 2007
It is one of around 300 possessions being put up for sale by BBC TV Antiques Roadshow expert and London West End art dealer and author, Christopher Wood and expected to fetch around 1 million. The auctioneers say: "Rossetti's drawings of Lizzie are generally regarded as one of his greatest achievements.There is nothing quite like them in British art."Lizzie's father was a Sheffield cutler but she was born after the family moved to a new life in London. (Sheffield Today, UK)
The Blue Room Oct 30, 2006
I didn t have to look for long. He s there in Christopher Wood s big dictionary of Victorian painters. He had a great or, anyway, a big career: mythological subjects, historical subjects, murals, friezes. (New Yorker)
