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Belated thanks to @a_christianindior @fredaisingom Belated thanks to @a_christianindior @fredaisingoma amd Ize for hosting a wonderful evening @lisson_gallery- a reception for American museum and curator friends in town from Basel and Paris 🤍 So lovely to join and catch up with everyone — pictured here in front of one of Anish Kapoor’s extraordinary mirrored works. #lissongallery #anishkapoor
Fantastic closing evening last night @capitalgroup Fantastic closing evening last night @capitalgroup. So great to see you there @gemmarollsbentley 💕 Thank you to all our artists for making it such a special and record-breaking 2026 show 🙏🙏We’ve now made it into the biggest corporate Pride show in the UK no less 🎉Massive hats off to Julie Dickson who trailblazed it from the start, and to Capital Group for allowing me to push them to make it bigger and better every year.  I am now lobbying like the clappers to have a fully public opening next year.. so watch this space .. #pridemonth🌈 #artexhibition #lgbtqiapride❤️💛💚💙💜
Welcome reprieve from the heat today at the @treas Welcome reprieve from the heat today at the @treasurehousefair..
 I loved the Lee Krasner @longsharpgallery Barbara Nichols @patrickheideca and Sandra Blow @jennaburlinghamgallery amongst many more.
#Treasurehousefair
What an evening. ✨ Last night at Capital Group we What an evening. ✨

Last night at Capital Group we had the privilege of seeing a screening of Permissible Beauty — the landmark project by @roberttaylor19582022 and @david.mcalmont that dared to ask: whose beauty gets to count?

The Windsor Beauties — ten portraits of women at the court of Charles II, assembled in the 1660s by Anne Hyde, Duchess of York — have hung at Hampton Court Palace for centuries as the very definition of British beauty. Permissible Beauty took that gilded, narrow standard and blew it open, placing the Black British Queer male at the centre of that same conversation. Inside that conversation.

Loved Robert’s photography and David’s intellectual vision, asking Hampton Court Palace — one of the most storied royal spaces in England — to reflect back something it had never shown before: that beauty does not need to be narrow. It can be a declaration of self-expression, self-acceptance, and authenticity. Which applies to us all.

@capitalgroup Group — you never cease to rock. 🖤

#PermissibleBeauty #BlackBritishArt #BritishArt #RobertTaylorPhotography #HamptonCourtPalace
This morning @christiesinc King Street - an artist This morning @christiesinc King Street - an artist talk with @artscouncilcollection — one of the most significant public art collections in the world, a “museum without walls”, belonging to guess who, the British people.
@alona_pardo, Director of the Arts Council Collection, led a fascinating conversation with artists @suleman_khilji  and @vanessaraw_ Both artists steeped in landscape — not as backdrop, but as reverence. Something bigger than the self.
Being an eco nut, I loved what i saw as their homage to the beauty of our world,  to their respective immediate environments:  Vanessa’s rich, saturated British greens alongside feminine, fertile, Mother Nature figures, and Suleman’s sun-bleached primary reds and yellows distilling light, arid landscape burning with the heat of Lahore. 
Two different geographies. Drawing life from them in art form.
And Vanessa —love that you channelled every last drop of your triathlon energy wholesale into your art. And boy do we see the results. Not least with one work auctioned by Christies this Thursday and the other firmly in the  Arts Council Collection. Congrats lovely 🙌❤️Close Encounters: Figuration, Painting and Landscape brings together artists from or based in the UK, hanging at Christie’s alongside the Zabludowicz Collection ahead of Thursday’s sale.
Thank you Christie’s, Alona Pardo, Suleman Aqeel Khilji and Vanessa Raw. #ArtsCouncilCollection #VanessaRaw #ZabludowiczCollection #SulemanAqeelKhilji #ContemporaryArt
This morning @Christies - spotted this one and imm This morning @Christies - spotted this one and immediately thought of @carriescottcurates’ challenging take on it. Loved hearing your angle. Does it make you see Richard Prince in a different light hearing this? #richardprince #photography #christies #zabludovichcollection
With @haddongrant at his show Fata Morgana @niso.l With @haddongrant at his show Fata Morgana @niso.london this morning — all about optical mirage: what you see shifts depending on where you stand, a blend of bendings of reality. Love that Haddon Grant has made instability the subject and the structure of the work.
He builds and welds the metal cases himself, enclosing sculpture behind corrugated glass, an artist fabricating not just the work but the conditions of its perception.
On until 18 July at NISO, New Cavendish Street.
#nisogallery #GuyHaddonGrant #Sculpture #ContemporaryArt #londonartscene
Measured confidence at Art Basel. Not a feeding fr Measured confidence at Art Basel. Not a feeding frenzy, but not the jitters of recent years either. 

Hauser & Wirth placed over $65 million on opening day alone — led by a $35m Picasso painted en plein air in 1963. Thaddaeus Ropac cleared nearly $9 million in the first hour. Many are saying it’s “safe to say yes again.” Gagosian sold this 1984 Willem de Kooning to a private collection in Asia for a high seven-figure sum. Surrounded by a monumental Henry Moore, a Francis Bacon portrait, and a new Albert Oehlen self-portrait nearly 3 metres tall. 

Flight to quality continues — with a surge in historical works, not just contemporary. The new Basel Exclusive programme (withholding works from digital previews to draw people to the fair in person) is a telling response to the market’s evolution..

Loving the public commissions by Nairy Baghramian and Ibrahim Mahama in the city squares, and Ruba Katrib’s debut edition of Unlimited.
Always watching closely. 
#ArtBasel2026 #ArtMarket #ContemporaryArt #ArtAdvisory #ArtBaselBasel
Art Basel opens this week — 290 galleries, 43 coun Art Basel opens this week — 290 galleries, 43 countries. My first four highlights as a starter for ten ✨

Hauser & Wirth, whose booth this year fires off with unbelievable energy, spanning over a century — from the Cubism of Juan Gris to Nairy Baghramian’s Messeplatz Commission, a breathtaking Gerhard Richter, Louise Bourgeois, Joan Mitchell, George Rouy, Amy Sharold amongst many gems.

Ibrahim Mahama’s The God of Small Things on the Münsterplatz — an immersive installation made from industrial rubber sourced from a Ghanaian factory, exploring labour, material histories and global exchange

Parcours, curated by Stefanie Hessler under the theme of “conviviality” — the joy and complexity of living together in public space.

The expansion of whose voices are being amplified — Selma Feriani with Mohamed Amine Hamouda and new gallery representation from Ivory Coast, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia — hand in hand with the shift in who’s buying. The Art Basel/UBS survey now shows nearly three-quarters of collectors surveyed are Gen Z or Millennial. New life ✨

#ArtBasel2026 #ContemporaryArt #ArtMarket #ArtBasel #Ibrahimmahama
« Love in Leadership » is how Ize Jones described « Love in Leadership » is how Ize Jones described @theaaroncezar’s  leadership of @delfinafdn last night. A family. A belonging. A home.
If that wasn’t enough, Delfina is also breaking ground. Instituting not artist residencies, but collector residencies. With selected collectors invited to stay at the foundation for a week. To live, chat, exchange over shared meals with artists. How about that as an idea?! Collectors brought close to the hub of creation. Like the good old days when the Medicis invited Michalangelo to live with them. And look what happened then. 
Thanks to you all @a_christianindior @fredaisingoma @izeidemudia @theaaroncezar 💕❤️
Recognition needed on a different topic. Next Wed Recognition needed on a different topic. 
Next Wednesday I am hosting our Quorum Group at ​@luxembourg_co for a private morning viewing of Illuminations — a remarkable exhibition developed with Sam Fogg as part of London Gallery Weekend.

Medieval stained glass alongside Paul Klee​, Piet Mondrian and Brice Marden​ amongst others. ​Just because the breakthroughs we associate with twentieth-century abstraction were already alive in the windows of medieval Europe. 
Can’t wait to see you @yuvaletgar @almaluxembourg ✨
#LondonGalleryWeekend #PrivateView #ArtAdvisory #luxembourgco #contemporaryart
Last night, I had the enormous privilege of openin Last night, I had the enormous privilege of opening Taking Pride in Art 2026 at Capital Group’s London offices — a show I’ve been co-curating for months.  Incredibly proud of CG for championing this show over the last 9 years. 

58 works. 45 artists. Every single one LGBTQIA+, making work that speaks to the Pride experience, visibility and joy. In a world where more countries are criminalising love every year, not fewer, this matters. You all rocked ✨@elias_alpha_2 @annasampson__ lucyash__ @oliverbassettcross @ian_brennan_artist @christoph.brueckner.studio @nan.carreira @simondredgeart @jakeelwes @marek.olszewski @thefoxfisher @nigel_grimmer_artist @neilhaas @roxanahallsartist @rjhewer @casperhong @birgittahosea @emilyhowardart @vernacular_formalism @kevin.kane.art @dhillonkaurart atalantakernick @sakib.khan.artist @sadieleeartist @daniellismore @vincentmanart @saaramantyla @laura_migliorino @tabithamillett @sarah_jane_moon @james_robert_morrison @wilhelmmoserart @muholizanele @jroattsart @heidipearce_art @emmaprice_artist @romanoart @abigabfab @thion_artist @albertotorreshernandez_ @christurrellceramics @hollyvaughan_art @sophieanne_wyth 🙏
Really excited about this one. TARWUK at White Cub Really excited about this one. TARWUK at White Cube Mason’s Yard this July — the pseudonymous Croatian-American duo whose densely layered, cinematic paintings weave art history, personal mythology into a raw contemporary bewitching beauty. Their first show at White Cube, and one of my most anticipated openings of the summer. Can’t wait to see it.

📍 White Cube Mason’s Yard, St James’s, London 🗓️ 9 July – 15 August 2026

#WhiteCube #TARWUK #ContemporaryArt #LondonArt #masonsyard
Toured “Scene XVII: pity this busy monster” this m Toured “Scene XVII: pity this busy monster” this morning with the incomparable @matt_careywilliams — poet, orator, force of nature. 
The show holds up a mirror to our dual nature: the monster isn’t “other”, it’s us. All of us. The capacity for good and for destruction lives in the same body. What we choose — or neglect — or are wilfully blind to - is everything. Especially loved the disquiet of @grahamsilveriamartin’s beguilingly compelling work, the nostalgia of @nadaelkalaawy and @tom_halsall_art’s searing depiction of dysfunctional countries as he sees them: Statue of Liberty all but effaced — overborne by a fearsome #B2 overhead, Justice blinded and contorted beneath it. Seven artists making the unbearable visible, also including @sarabirns  @jordanrubio10 @laurengracebrown @skyetholstrup. At 12 Porchester Place until 26 June.
Hats off. 
#mattcareywilliams #Londonartshow
#tomhalsall
grahamsilveriamartin 
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Two things that feel like they might just be in co Two things that feel like they might just be in conversation with each other.

Last night: drinks and a talk with Oliver Bullough, @olbullough at our Quorum Network event with the brilliant Founder Janine Stow. Oliver’s new book Everybody Loves Our Dollars picks up where Moneyland left off — a forensic, jaw-dropping account of how Western financial institutions have become the infrastructure of choice for illicit money. Not the villains we imagine. Us. The discomfort was on point. 
He shone the light on the fact that no one uses cash anymore, but the amount of cash in circulation is not only in the billions but growing, on the fact that the US is complicit in enabling dirty money globally —  exporting dollars is one of the US’s most profitable exports ($1-2 trillion circulating outside the US), that the compliance within western democracies is toothless, and so much more..

Right on cue, this Friday I’m also heading to “Pity this busy monster” at 12 Porchester Place — @matt_careywilliams seventeenth Scene, a group show taking its inspiration from an EE Cummings poem about “manunkind” and our monstrous propensity for corruption and destruction. Seven artists, one very timely premise.

Money laundering one night, art about the beast within us all the next. Does that feel about right for the current moment?

#contemporaryart #artinlondon #moneylaundering #exhibitionopening #londonart
Last night celebrating @vam_east s launch of its A Last night celebrating @vam_east s launch of its Africa and Diaspora Acquisition Committee — promoting the artists, the stories, the voices that deserve to be in permanent collections, and have deserved it for so long. The start of an exciting new story and an invitation for as many of you to get involved to promote, donate & support this incredible initiative.
Gus Casely-Hayford, Director of @vanmuseum and Dr Madeleine Haddon, Senior Curator of V&A East, inspired us all. Loved meeting you all @izejones, @laetitia_masson, @viv_paxinos, @mukami_kuria, Linda Essumai, can’t wait to plot lots of things together. 
An enormous thanks to @a_christianindior, @fredaisingoma and @izejones for including me in this, not least to the wonderful Ariel White-Tsimikalis for hosting us so beautifully. Magical eve ✨
#VAEast #VictoriaAndAlbert #AfricanDiaspora #ContemporaryArt #AfricanArt
@photolondonfair has arrived at Olympia — and it f @photolondonfair has arrived at Olympia — and it feels like a proper new era for the fair. Gone is the maze of Somerset House; in its place, two light-filled floors of the National Hall with real space to move, discover and linger.
Steven Meisel’s monumental black-and-white prints from his legendary 1993 Anglo-Saxon Attitude shoot dominate the upper gallery, and 
Upstairs in Discovery and Positions, some real highlights: Tshepiso Moropa’s exquisite archival collages rooted in Setswana folktale and dream; the multi-layered photographic world of @fu_safira and the singular @fyodorpavlovandreevich, whose work across performance, film and image deserves every bit of the platform Positions is giving it.
New this year: a dedicated film screening room, and Source — a section for significant artists who’ve slipped through the institutional net. Loved it. Hugest congratulations @__sophie.parker__  @mariasukkar @omfgnoway 
Open until Sunday 17 May, Olympia. Go. #PhotoLondon #PhotoLondon2026 #photography #art #londonartscene
Loved this work by @PhotoInc @photolondonfair Lond Loved this work by @PhotoInc @photolondonfair London yesterday. Stills culled from over 10,000 films across the 20th century, all sharing a single motif — the open road receding to a vanishing point.#PhotoLondon #PhotoLondon2026 #MadhubanMitra #ManasBhattacharya #PHOTOINK
Such a privilege to be offered a sneak peek at Fra Such a privilege to be offered a sneak peek at Francis Picabia: Expanding Horizons @hauserwirth with our fab group the Quorum Network before the show opens its doors next week. Huge thank you to Judith Nezri @_judith_n and Sarah Bourghardt @smulieart for showing us around — what an introduction to five decades of one of art history’s great shape-shifters. Dada, abstraction, nudes, transparencies... Picabia never stood still, and neither did we.Judith spoke with such passion and deep knowledge about his life and work. Loved her story that his first gallerist threw Picabia out when he dared to veer from Impressionism to abstraction. Picabia had refused point blank to keep producing the same thing time and again. The gallerist saw red and sent all of Picabia’s works to auction as a result. Picabia remained undeterred — persevering in his eternal creative renewal. The evidence was there this morning. 
Opens 21 May. Loved our sneak view of a beautiful Frank Bowling too. 

#FrancisPicabia #HauserAndWirth #LondonExhibition #London #ContemporaryArt
Which artists never stand still? Constantly creati Which artists never stand still? Constantly creating something new, never mind previous success or commercial demands? Which artists truly embody creativity?

Francis Picabia (1879–1953) is one of them. Moving restlessly through Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism and abstraction, never settling, never repeating himself. One of the most ingenious shape-shifters in the history of art. 

This coming Tuesday, I’m hosting a privileged guided visit to see Expanding Horizons at @hauserwirth London — a full week before the official opening — for our illustrious private Member’s Club Quorum Network.

Organised in collaboration with the Comité Picabia, this is a rare overview of five decades of his work: from early landscapes and Dada provocations through to the richly textured abstract paintings of his final years in Paris. Love the conviction, daredevilry and sheer sense of freedom in his work. All from 1930s,40s,50s too. Were we freer then than we are now?

Hauser & Wirth, 23 Savile Row, London 

Official opening: 21 May – 1 August 2026 thanks @smulieart 🙏

#FrancisPicabia #HauserWirth #LondonArt #ExpandingHorizons #artlovers
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