Chronicle Staff February 1, 2021Updated: February 4, 2021, 7:06 am
Jiab Prachakul ‘Stand-by,’ 2020 Photo: Jiab Prachakul, Courtesy of Friends Indeed Gallery
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First Jiab Prachakul show ‘14 Years’ comes to Friends Indeed Gallery
Jiab Prachakul’s highly anticipated first-ever American exhibition, “14 Years,” comes to the Friends Indeed Gallery this month.
Prachakul, the winner of the 2020 BP Portrait Award, was born in Nakhon Phanom, a small town on the Mekong River in northeast Thailand. The artist became interested in portraiture and art after moving to England and viewing an exhibition of David Hockney’s work.
Hotels Buyers and Sellers Remain Deadlocked With vaccinations beginning, existing owners of struggling hotel properties are making a renewed effort to wait out the pandemic rather than sell for deep discounts.
Investors have stashed away billions of dollars to buy hotel properties hurt by the economic chaos caused by the coronavirus. But that money is not being spent.
Even though the coronavirus continues to rage across the U.S., sellers are holding on to their properties. Lenders have been surprisingly generous with forbearance. And many current property owners are spending make debt service payments and keep their properties out of foreclosure.