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Chinese billionaire Xiao Jianhua seized from luxury Hong Kong hotel, source says
Story highlights
- Source tells CNN that Xiao has been abducted from Hong Kong hotel
- Front page newspaper ad in tycoon's name denies he's been kidnapped
(CNN)A Chinese billionaire with Canadian citizenship has been seized from his apartment at the Four Seasons hotel in Hong Kong and taken to mainland China, a source familiar with the situation told CNN Wednesday.
Hong Kong police said they were investigating the disappearance of Xiao Jianhua, who was reported missing Friday. Police added that they had received a request Saturday from a family member to drop the case.
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State of the art: How will Trump's taste change the White House?
Updated 1049 GMT (1849 HKT) January 20, 2017
(CNN)So what will Donald and Melania Trump bring to the White House in the way of taste and style? Their triplex apartment atop Manhattan's Trump Tower has been described by British design critic Stephen Bayley as a "glitterball of rococo kitsch." Will this aesthetic lend itself to the neo-classical grand mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
It's not unusual for the President and First Lady to add personal touches during their residencies.
Teddy Roosevelt hung stuffed animal heads in the State Dining Room. Jackie Kennedy famously renovated the State Rooms to celebrate the White House's decorative and architectural history.
The Clintons borrowed a Willem de Kooning late abstract and a cast of Rodin's "The Thinker."
Michelle and Barack Obama introduced an unprecedented roll call of 20th-century art, much of it American Abstract Expressionism, loaned from American museums or donated to the White House permanent collection -- Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Josef Albers, Sam Francis, Louise Nevelson and Alma Thomas, the first African-American woman to be represented in the White House.
Over the fireplace in the master bedroom, the Obamas hung a 19th-century nocturne painting by James McNeill Whistler.
In his 70 years, Donald Trump has rarely espoused a passion for any kind of art (aside from "Trump: The Art of the Deal," his 1987 book) although, according to the New York Times, he has seen "Evita" as many as six times on Broadway.
You could say Trump's buildings are his principal, almost primal idea of what art is. In 2013, he told the Washington Post "friends of mine, they spend these ridiculous amounts of money on paintings... I'd rather do jobs like this (a new Washington Hotel), and do something really that the world can cherish."
He seems to like Impressionism -- or at least the Impressionist who prolifically celebrated feminine sensuality.
Both writer Mark Bowden and Nicole Bryl, Melania Trump's makeup artist, have reported that the Trumps own paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Bowden wrote in Vanity Fair that, in 1996, Trump showed him around the gilded interior of his private jet and pointed out Renoir's signature on a painting; Trump didn't comment on the work, just its value -- "Worth $10 million," he reportedly said.
In a 2012 blog for the Huffington Post, Bryl wrote about "the Trumps' golden sky palace/triplex" at Trump Tower, with "their majestic golden 'door' entrance, the crystal chandeliers, the marble floors, tables and bathrooms, the Renoir paintings and the panoramic floor to ceiling windows."
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