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What I love about humans: creating something out o What I love about humans: creating something out of nothing. ✨

The V&A has never had a Global Africa Acquisition Committee, that is, until this year.

Did you know that Global African objects make up just 0.4% of the V&A’s collection?

Well, the V&A is doing something about it. This new, incredible group, led by Madeleine Haddon @madhaddon and Gus Casely-Hayford, helps ensure the collection is diversified into Africa and its Diaspora, with key modern and contemporary works. A new space to discuss the relationship between Global Africa and Britain 🌟

The donations from members of the committee go entirely to acquiring works from global Africa. Let me know if you’d like more details.

This all heralds a fab evening at V&A East tomorrow night: with an introduction to the Acquisition Group and a private view of the Museum’s inaugural exhibition, The Music Is Black: A British Story.

Looking forward to seeing you all there  @fredaisingoma @a_christianindior @izeidemudia 💚💚

@vamuseum 

#VAEast #GlobalAfrica #TheMusicIsBlack #GlobalAfricaAcquisitionCommittee #Art
Last night at Antony Gormley’s studio with my @chi Last night at Antony Gormley’s studio with my @chisenhalegallery family and so many supporters. Antony — one of the founding fathers of Chisenhale in case you didn’t know — spoke powerfully about how pivotal CG had been for him as a young artist, with his studio above the gallery, and how important Chisenhale remains today in launching the careers of young artists. He thanked every single supporter from the heart, and generously opened up his studio to us all.  No photos allowed as you can imagine but oh boy was it an Aladdin’s cave of glorious Gormley bodies in all their disparate forms, whether made of sticks and rods, blocks or boards, either hanging from the ceiling 20 meters high ready for collection, or on the warehouse floor in the middle of construction. Then, a room of maquettes, including for the unmistakable Royal Academy Summer Exhibition cardboard work, and many more. All of which to confirm that the zeitgeist is with Chisenhale  — not least with the incredible roster of artists coming up this year and in 2027, including you, @deborahjoyceholman! Loved seeing you @rachelverghis  @mingk888 and @flavianespatti ❤️#ChisenhaleGallery #AntonyGormley #ContemporaryArt #LondonArt #ArtistStudio
Huge thanks to @britishartfair Fair and @francesch Huge thanks to @britishartfair Fair and @franceschristie_art for touring us around the fair this morning before the doors opened to the public. A real trip back to the 20th century with Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, David Hockney, Patrick Heron, Lowry, William Turnbull, Anne Saïd, Felicity Powell, and so much more. Thank you so much for an enlightening morning. 
The British Art Fair (at Saatchi Gallery, London) runs 24–27 September 2026. 

#BritishArtFair #ModernBritishArt #BarbaraHepworth #DavidHockney #franceschristie
In Grenoble for a few days, my hometown, where we In Grenoble for a few days, my hometown, where we have a little chunk of Paris’s Universal Exhibtion  of 1900. @le__magasin__ is a hall I love, built in the ateliers of Gustave Eiffel, and transformed into an art centre in the 1980s. It’s had shows of all sorts, including @anish.kapoor and is currently showing 𝘿𝙚̀𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣-𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙩 with works by a local artist Adrien Fregosi, who sadly recently passed away from cancer aged 44,  with 12 other artists.  A place to visit if you happen to be in the Alps✨@sophie.guerrive @delphinereist @delphinereist @galeriesultana @dca_reseau @acra_auvergnerhonealpes @culture_gouv @villedegrenoble @isere.le.departement
Music expresses that which cannot be said. Just po Music expresses that which cannot be said.
Just popped in to see the Johnny Marr guitar exhibition @Christies this morning, ahead of the auction on the 17th Sept.  
So moved to see the guitars that have been the soundtrack of our lives❤️
Around 90 guitars and amplifiers, tracing Johnny’s career from co-founding The Smiths through The Pretenders, The The, Electronic, The Healers, Modest Mouse and The Cribs, alongside collaborations with Pet Shop Boys, Talking Heads, Bryan Ferry, Beck, Hans Zimmer, Oasis, Pearl Jam, Noel Gallagher, Billie Eilish, Blondie, Gorillaz and Franz Ferdinand.Go, even if just to hear Noel Gallagher and Johnny Marr recounting how it was the guitars’ own individuality — their unique voice — that gave birth to songs on so many occasions, whether Slide Away, Wonderwall, No Time To Die, or countless others across four decades.
Electrifying
@johnnymarrgram @noelgallagher @christiesinc #JohnnyMarr #MarrsGuitars #Christies #TheSmiths #Oasis
Our talented Spirit Now London friend @catherinewi Our talented Spirit Now London friend @catherinewingfield_photography opens her new exhibition The Dreams of Lioness Blixen in Mayfair @gallery8eight this week — 14 to 18 September. Catherine’s photography is seeped in the celebration and the beauty of nature.

I love how her lens conjures up beautiful other worldly abstracts, which you slowly realise are the crust of our own beautiful planet Earth. We were blind and now we see✨

#CatherineWingfield #Photography #ContemporaryPhotography #LondonArt #ArtLondon
September is shaping up to be crazy busy— here's w September is shaping up to be crazy busy— here's what I'm either targeting or organising this month:

- Starting with a special exhibition of Catherine Wingfield's photography this coming week (next post 😉)
- Preparing a privileged, once-in-a-lifetime studio visit to Frank Bowling's studio for select guests in the not-so-distant future
- Two lunches I'm organising for the Quorum ladies at the RA — a special club of founders led by the incredible Janine Stow, across industry, finance, politics, AI and more. DM me if you'd like to know more.
- Before-hours tour and breakfast I've organised for SNL at the British Art Fair, held at the Saatchi Gallery. Exclusive to SNL, we'll have a private tour led by the wonderful Frances Christie, the Antiques Roadshow specialist.
- After-hours at Anthony Gormley's studio, an exclusive evening for current and future Exhibition Circle supporters of Chisenhale Gallery — the East End's leading not-for-profit contemporary art space, where I sit on the Advisory Board. Ping me.
- An exciting meeting with an AI expert to drag me from the dark ages into the 21st century.
...and much more.
Plus all the placing of artworks & Scottish reels and balls on the go 😂
Can't wait to reconnect with you all — reply or DM if any of these catch your eye, love making connections as you know.

#ArtAdvisory  #ContemporaryArt #LondonArt #ChisenhaleGallery #AnthonyGormley
Last chance to see Still Life by Jasper Marsalis a Last chance to see Still Life by Jasper Marsalis at Chisenhale Gallery — it closes this Sunday. Artist-led tour and midnight viewing happening this Saturday.

The show was named one of the 14 best British contemporary art shows to see before summer ends.
No less.

Marsalis transforms the gallery into a sleeping interstitial space — with footage from surveillance cameras, radio static, webcams of beauty spots around the world. The Guardian describes all these images taken by unattended internet cameras as offering a "contemporary update of the picturesque".

Chisenhale always has its finger on the button of the most exciting emerging artists. A key institution in London in my view, with so many incredible supporters for this show:
@jpcollins216 @frederic_net · @lateefabh @lukifero · @sibylle.rochat · @nicolettafioruccifoundation · @emalinofficial · @freelandsfoundation · @henrymoorefdn_grants @alexanderdlewis @alexvpetalas @amaliamytilineou to name but a a few.
@chisenhalegallery

#JasperMarsalis #ChisenhaleGallery
#ContemporaryArt #LondonArt #ArtLondon
Boy, is there already a full programme for Septemb Boy, is there already a full programme for September.
First up is Frieze Seoul, starting this week with some fabulous works presented.
Whilst us lot in the west are being rather cautious given the turmoil in the world, Korea's collector base is being renewed, a new generation of collectors, nearly a third in their 20s and 30s, with women at their lead.

Great to see @whitecube opening up a new space in the Gangnam district too.

A few of my faves so far:

1. Alicja Kwade — Light Lessons (August/Berlin) & Light Lessons (December/Berlin), 2025
Brass watch hands on cardboard, 89.5×78.5×4.8cm each

2. Alicja Kwade — detail

3. Eunnam Hong — Bomb, 2026
Oil on canvas, 50.8×40.6cm

4. Gerhard Richter — Fuji, 1996
Oil on Alucobond, 29×37cm

5. Georg Baselitz — Die linke Hand von Rousseau, 2019
Fire-gilt bronze, 148.8×56.5×2.2cm, edition 9+3APs+1HC

6. Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato — Untitled, 1982
Oil on canvas, 23×34cm

7. Christian Marclay — Actions: Swiiiiiis Splshh (No.3), 2014
Screen print and acrylic on canvas, 165×150cm

8. Bendt Eyckermans — Dream Sequence, 2024
Oil on paper, 31×23cm
And that’s a wrap on summer✨ Nicaraguan volcanoes And that’s a wrap on summer✨

Nicaraguan volcanoes, treks across France and Scotland, fab parties and friends, lots of reeling, plus even tried trapeze of all things. The hardest physical art form in the world. I am in absolute awe of anyone who can do this..

Back to work this week, with a lot of exciting things in the pipeline. Watch this space✨

#BackToWork #Trapeze #Summer2026
Powerful show in Nantes @museedartsdenantes by the Powerful show in Nantes @museedartsdenantes by the artist duo Anne & Patrick Poirier, focussing on the ephemerality of civilisations, how they rise and fall across the millennia., quietly highlighting the tottering fragility of our very own. The whisper of both dreams and loss permeates the exhibit-
- the loss of a whole civilisation’s knoweldge encapsulated in a vast national library burnt to a crisp
- the loss of human lives that affects us all, and in this case for both Patrick and his grandfather who came to this same spot in the museum in 1943 to identify Patrick’s own father, killed in the war,  or the loss of Anne and Patrick’s own son in 2002, and of so many others. 
All the more striking as I had just visited the devastated village of Oradour sur Glane, left untouched for 80 years after the Nazis massacred all 600 villagers on 10 June 1944. Absence, loss, remembrance, love and the power of us all to unite despite it all. 
 @galerie_mitterrand @anne.patrickpoirier
 #ContemporaryArt #OradourSurGlane#anneetpatrickpoirier #galeriemitterrand museedartsdenant
Back online after a few weeks off-grid, travelling Back online after a few weeks off-grid, travelling through France 🇫🇷 This is the Gare de Limoges-Bénédictins — voted France’s Most Beautiful Station in 2022. Built 1925–29 by architect Roger Gonthier, it’s a Monument Historique and carries the “Patrimoine du XXe siècle” label for outstanding 20th-century architecture — a mix of Art Nouveau and Art Deco crowned by a soaring dome, with stained glass by Francis Chigot and sculpture by Henri Varenne.

The four allegorical women looking down over the hall — Le Limousin, La Bretagne, La Gascogne, La Touraine — represent the regions once served by the old Paris-Orléans railway line. #ArtDeco #Limoges #GareDeLimoges
Museo de Arte Fundación Ortiz-Gurdián in León, Nic Museo de Arte Fundación Ortiz-Gurdián in León, Nicaragua — Nicaragua’s and Latin America’s own masters alongside Frankenthaler, De Kooning, Richter, Basquiat, Albers, Lichtenstein, spread across three restored colonial mansions. Navigating a delicate tension between access and preservation with so many works on paper in this hot climate, an unexpected and joyful encounter in the middle of Nicaragua. Many thanks @centrodearte_fog León #ArtCollecting #LatinAmericanArt #Nicaragua #ContemporaryArt #OrtizGurdian
Fabulous evening. Many thanks to @leila__alexander Fabulous evening. Many thanks to @leila__alexander @whitecube for hosting our group last night for an exclusive tour of Tarwuk- the Croatian-American husband and wife duo and their densely layered, poetic and symbiotic paintings. Personal mythology, rich tapestry of colour and beauty, all seeped in art history. Love that their bright orange colour was bequeathed to them by the famous painter Ron Gorshov.
Their works are already in the Met Museum amongst many other notable institutions, and this is their very first show at White Cube. Going up fast. Loved doing this with you @maireadcmurray 

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

#WhiteCube #TARWUK #ContemporaryArt #LondonArt #rongorshov
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
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