Not All Is What It Seems to Be in Gwyneth’s Home

The envious oohing and aahing over the Ruth Asawa hanging prominently next to Gwyneth Paltrow’s couch in the March issue of Architectural Digest subsided somewhat after the sculpture was revealed not to be a Ruth Asawa after all. “Instead, the piece is by D’Lisa Creager, who learned Asawa’s signature wire looping technique at a workshop taught by Aiko Cuneo, one of the artist’s daughters,” ARTnews reported. The photo, part of a spread on Paltrow’s new California home, was duly cropped and the caption corrected. Asawa’s top auction price so far is $5.38 million, according to ARTnews, and while “how much Paltrow paid for her lookalike works remains unclear,” Creager’s “auction high tops out at a very respectable $35,000.”

Vladimir Putin’s luxury private yacht Graceful has left a Hamburg shipyard and headed for the high seas—rather, it is widely speculated, than risk facing possible post-hypothetical-Ukraine-invasion-sanction-related confiscation. “The Kieler Nachrichten newspaper on Sunday had published a photo of the 82-metre [270-foot] luxury yacht moored alongside the German navy corvette Emden,” reported The Times of London. “Since then the yacht has sailed into the Baltic. Putin’s Graceful had been undergoing refurbishment at the Blohm+Voss shipyard since September where it had been fitted with two new large balconies and had its hull cleaned and its engines overhauled.” The Russia-bound Gracefulhas five decks, a helipad, and (all-important) an indoor pool that can be converted to a dance floor.