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Popular London-based streetwear brand Stone Island has announced a multi-year global partnership with leading contemporary art fair group Frieze. Also born and bred in London, Frieze has become globally recognized for its expertise in the curation of contemporary art experiences, focused on celebrating living artists.As part of this partnership, Stone Island will act as the official partner of "Focus," Frieze's arm dedicated to emerging galleries that participate in its art fairs. The streetwear brand will offer a bursary of up to 30 percent of the stand fee for each of the participating galleries -- providing support that combined with Frieze's existing subsidies will further accelerate the growth of emerging galleries' participation in fairs."Stone Island is built on community and creati...

Pablo Picasso's 1934 oil painting, Femme à la montre, is expected to fetch around $120m USD when it hits auction this fall. Painted during the height of his iconoclastic career, Femme à la montre is inspired by Picasso's longtime muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, a French model he had an affair with from 1927 to 1935. During that period, Picasso was still married to his first wife, Olga Khokhlova, a Russian-Ukranian dancer. He ultimately wasn't able to keep the secret of his affair, emblematic of Walter's influence on many of his works, ultimately ending his first marriage and simultaneously coinciding with Picasso's first retrospective exhibition at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris. “Picasso’s ‘Femme à la Montre’ is a masterpiece by every measure," noted Julian Dawes, Sotheby’s head of Impres...