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Loved visiting René Magritte’s show at @gagosian Loved visiting René Magritte’s show at @gagosian  yesterday. Ceci continue de ne pas être une pipe. 🖤 En Français, c’est encore mieux 😎

Huge thanks to @@janasuhani for taking me round this crazy rollercoaster of a show. It combines never-before-seen Magritte masterpieces with a whole array of artists he has influenced.

The exhibition is stunningly designed by@alexdacorte . The design is an artwork in itself 🌟
Dreamy, otherworldly, funny, unsettling, sinister, intimate, sometimes perhaps too much, and beautiful all at once. In Gagosian’s words: “we encounter dread, anxiety, and ambiguity; humor and vulgarity; boredom and deadpan banality; a questioning of both meaning and the reliability of what we see or read.”

Loved a very touching early Ed Ruscha (@edruschaofficial ), and also the work of Allison Katz (@allison.katz ), Issy Wood (@isywod ), Harold Ancart (@harold_ancart ), Bennett Miller, Joanna Vos, Sean Landers (@seanland81 ) and Nairy Baghramian (@nairybaghramian ).
This has been the most popular show ever on Gagosian books - you should’ve seen the cues run the block when the show opened -40k people just in the last month, a record number. Reviews have been off the scale.

It ends in December, I recommend it.

This Is Still Not a Pipe
The Afterlife of Magritte 
September 24–December 12, 2026
Grosvenor Hill, London
 
#gagosiangallery #gagosian #renemagritte #renémagritte
@janasuhani  @gagosian
Bright and early this morning @spruethmagers Galle Bright and early this morning @spruethmagers Gallery in Mayfair to see the inaugural UK show of artist Hyun-Sook Song with my Quorum network private members club. An artist widely collected by both institutions and collectors around the world- we had the privilege of discovering her all to ourselves before opening hours today.

Sprüth Magers is a phenomenal gallery that has championed women artists since the 1980s. All at a time when artists were predominantly male. The artists they launched all the way back then include Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer & Barbara Kruger, all of which have recently had incredible institutional shows around the world.  One of the most outstanding things about the Gallery is that they prize loyalty above everything else. This loyalty has resulted in every single one of their founding artists still being on their roster more than 40 years later. 
I particularly loved Jenny Holzer’s show at @museeorsay, and Barbara Kruger @boursedecommerce two weeks ago in Paris. 

For Hyun’s show, we were taken away by the softness and nostagia of her work, her line, its inherent breathwork, and meditative quality, setting everyone on the best course to start the day.

Thank you, @bellabonner for giving us such a in depth tour into both the Gallery and in this beguiling artist’s work.

I look forward to coming back -in an hour!- with my second group ✨! #hyunsooksong #contemporaryart #spruethmagers #londonartscene
Snaps from a mad few weeks. Frieze, Paris, half te Snaps from a mad few weeks. Frieze, Paris, half term, olive picking, teens, and then this week starting off with our first strategy session for Capital Group’s Pride in Art for June (watch this space), consigning a lorry full of works to a beautiful London apartment, sourcing various works from emerging artists to bluechip for clients, plus planning a December visit for @spiritnowlondon to a top collectors’ home in London.

Also adored my first viewing of Hyun Sook Song’s work @spruethmagers yesterday before its opening to the public today, a balm to the soul, a return to the analog world of uncoiling threads from silk cocoons, harking back to the golden age in her Korean village, in paint form.  Such a contrast to the vibrancy and color saturation of Allen Jones’ new body of work @gazelliarthouse, no less admirable in its own way. Chisenhale Gallery bookended last night with a fascinating talk on the restitution or repatriation of African and Diaspora artefacts, and the liberation, validation and reframing of history that involves. with @MatiDiop @tosialeniarska. Do check out @wakaliwood ‘s presentation at Chisenhale, it was hilarious, irreverent, and refreshingly analog.
Quick interlude this weekend with a spot of teaching reels to everyone on Sunday to prepare everyone for our big December Ball, before another bonkers week
• introducing Quantum Computing serial entrepreneur and investor Daniel Doll-Steinberg (must get him to be interviewed by @kennyschachter, no?) to one of my clubs Monday evening
- Bringing 3 of my private clubs to see Hyun Sook Song’s show at Spruth on Tuesday
- Hearing Katherine Stewart on the forces reshaping democratic life on Wednesday
• Finalising numbers for our beyond exciting Frank Bowling studio visit with @hauserwirth on 17 November.
as a starter for ten✨

Will get better at posting soon 🤞

#artadvisory #contemporaryart #collecting #prideinart #londonartscene
Looking forward to the panel discussion Thursday e Looking forward to the panel discussion Thursday evening in the series programmed by @tosialeniarska around the Chisenhale Gallery commission 'Kibuuka Omumbaale' by the Kampala-based film collective Wakaliga Uganda @wakaliwood
Love that this film collective was founded by Isaac Nbwana in the Wakaliga slums of Kampala in Uganda and that despite all odds has now risen to international art circuit fame. Wakaliwood uses an action-packed visual language that everyone can understand, on crazy low budgets, using Isaac's family, friends and neighbours from Wakaliga.
Its Chisenhale Gallery commission 'Kibuuka Omumbaale' is a blistering 40-minute superhero film exploring the repatriation of colonial artifacts and Buganda warrior-god mythologies.
Thursday evening's talk will assemble leading scholars and filmmakers — film director Mati Diop, historian and curator Dr Eva Namusoke, and novelist Dr Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, chaired by film scholar Dr Nobunye Levin — to discuss Wakaliga Uganda's reappropriation and subversion of the figure of the superhero to explore how global power struggles still shape culture today.
Mati Diop is a French-Senegalese filmmaker born in Paris in 1982. Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, followed by Dahomey (2024), awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival (both shortlisted for the Academy Awards), she has established one of the most distinctive bodies of work in contemporary cinema.
Dr Eva Namusoke is Senior Curator, African Collections Futures, working across collections from and about the African continent in the University of Cambridge's museums, botanic garden and libraries.
Dr Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is a Ugandan-British novelist and short story writer known for weaving Ganda oral traditions and history into modern fiction.
Dr Nobunye Levin is a Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College London. Her recent film work includes Dreaming is serious work (2025).
@chisenhalegallery @edward__gillman @isaacnabwana @queenharriet256
Belated shout out about last Friday’s show in the Belated shout out about last Friday’s show in the ChapelleSaint-Louis de la Salpêtrière in Paris, a church powerfully reconverted for @OFFSCREEN_Paris fifth edition. Cutting edge videos,installations, artworks exhibited alongside all the traditional trappings of a church, given a whole new life with the most contemporary art. Loved the contrast, just as I loved Justin Caguiat’s exhibition organised by @fundacionsandretto in the Santa Ana y la Esperanza Church in Madrid earlier this year. Such a brilliant idea to reconvert these abandoned churches. 
Many highlights at Offscreen:
1. Marisa González @galeria_isabel_hurley: Fax Station, a fax machine suspended from the ceiling, with decades oftransmissions cascading to the floor. 
2. Guest of honour, Ana Mendieta, with six films shown at life size thanks to @goodman gallery.
3. Ibrahim Mahama @apalazzogallery with his work Voli-ni, a monumental collage of brutalist architecture and hanging bats. Great to see coming fresh from his incredible show @FondationCartier.
4. Suzy Lake @bradleyertaskiran_: Choreographed Puppets(1976-77), shown beside the original suspension rig.
5. Giovanni Ozzola @galleriacontinua: a video that begins darkness, then a shutter rises onto the glittering sea. And then tragically closes again.
6. Ken Ohara @valeriebach.lapatinoireroyale: the monumental GRAIN portraits, 81 faces to a sheet.
7. Shiraz Bayjoo (@copperfield_london): a Mauritian-born, London-based artist unpicking colonial archives and Indian Ocean histories through film, painting and installation. Just think of the sheer scandal that having these works on the altar would have caused not so long ago. 
8. Sarah Brahim @albionjeune
9. Petra Feriancová @elizabethxibauer
#OFFSCREEN #OFFSCREENParis #ParisArtWeek #ContemporaryArt #AnaMendieta
@jennyholzerstudio @museeorsay today @jennyholzerstudio @museeorsay today
Art remains the best expression of what humanity c Art remains the best expression of what humanity can offer- bewildering creativity. So many highlights  @art_basel_paris

- Brancusi @whitecubegallery 
- Enrico David @whitecubegallery “Assumption of We”
- Mary Stephenson
- Anicka Yi @gladstone.gallery 
- Kara Walker @spruethmagers 
- Anne Imhof @spruethmagers 
- @evajospinstudio 
- @suleman_khilji 
- @tadashi.kawamata 
- @alicjakwade - being dismantled early due to the protests #artbaselparis #contemporaryart #paris
The theme of Cassandra, the prophetess who spoke t The theme of Cassandra, the prophetess who spoke the truth but was cursed to never be believed was central to the Soothsayers Chorus last week. It is central to the latest movie the Social Reckoning (a must watch.)
It is also central to Ana Mendieta‘s show at Tate Modern which I finally got to see yesterday.
So much Mendieta‘s work centres on violence against women and how it is either dismissed or downright ignored.
Having been deeply troubled by the lack of reaction to the violent sex assault and murder of her fellow student at the university of Iowa, she made the work Moffitt building Piece in 1973 where she spilled animal blood on the street to make it seem like a crime scene. She then photographed the reaction of passers by. The reaction was a complete lack of reaction. A refusal to engage. Apart from one chap who cleared it up.
It’s also in her own life story, having ostensibly been killed by her husband Carl Andre, who pushed her out of the 38th floor of their apartment building, and was then acquitted of any wrongdoing.
The issue of who is speaking the truth and who is to be believed is as rife as ever. Whether in politics, current affairs or the tragic recent story of the Cornell Seven. Who will be believed? 
The other side of Mendieta’s work is transcendental, about nature, about reaffirming herself in the world, about regeneration and universal energy that runs through everything. 
Her Silueta series (1973–1980) is a haunting and beautiful body of work: her own silhouette burned into earth, carved in sand, traced in fire, dissolved, or blooming with flowers and blood. Presence and absence. 
A  fascinating and searing show.
Curated @valentine.umansky 

#anamendieta #anamendietaart #contemporaryart 
#tatemodern
Fab & crazy frieze day yesterday. Such an art worl Fab & crazy frieze day yesterday. Such an art world Mecca, loved bumping into so many friends.
My highlights- 
- Loved @hauserwirth @frankbowlingstudio first up- can’t wait to bring my group to your studio on 17 November ✨
- @janainatschape @maxedouardhetzler 
- Leila Babirye
- Martha Jungwirth
-Tracey Emin
-@projectos 
- Maria Teresa Solar
- Lucy Dodd @spruethmagers 
- the sackler story in pens @trautmein - the hundreds of branded pens sent by pharmaceutical companies in the USA to doctors - check out how many viagra pens are there
- our tour with Andrew Durbin, editor of frieze magazine @Chisenhale @maureenpaley @emalinofficial 
Lots more to come soon ✨ #friezelondon #friezeweek #friezelondon2026 #londonartscene
Glorious crazy day today. @padesignart @tristanhoa Glorious crazy day today. @padesignart @tristanhoare and his fab stand.  Loved bumping into so many friends, plus huge thanks to @awitalondon @sigridakirk for housing us in Berkeley Square no less for those in between shows urgent emails. God send.
Onto @phillipsauction showing a remarkable @bensledsens #CecilyBrown #AnselmKiefer. A perilous but worthwhile bike ride to @delfinafdn to meet @mohammadalfaraj and his latest show, celebrating Family in its widest sense, everything that constitutes the world around us. Quorum to hear the fascinating @richard.aronowitz talk to us about Nazi looted art and the enormous work it has been since 1998 to trace down the families whose art was stolen in WW2. One such restitution story is the very extraordinary Kandinsky coming up for auction tomorrow night estimated £18m to £25m. Hammersmith bridge beautiful view, and ready for double servings tomorrow ✨ #friezeweek2026 #londonartscene
Early start today ✨ Joined @theartsfoundation @sot Early start today ✨ Joined @theartsfoundation @sothebys for a private morning tour on New Bond Street, celebrating the October Contemporary Day Auction and the Arts Foundation Fundraising Auction, with a look at highlights from the Evening Sale too. Loved seeing you @Saadisoudavar, @Stephenstapleton and hugest thanks for your passion and expertise @mackiehc 🙏

Works are generously donated by @antonygormley420 @anish.kapoor @CatherineGoodman Joy Gregory, Jane Harris, Florian Meisenberg, Erin O’Keefe, @AhmedMater PermindarKaur and @abdulnassergharem for the cause. 
Every penny goes to the Arts Foundation Futures Awards, which give UK artists unconditional funding at a pivotal moment in their careers 💚
The Arts Foundation’s online auction is no less impressive, with dinner with Simon Schama, a private curator-led tour of Renoir and Love @nationalgallery Gallery, a signed first edition of Ali Smith’s Free Love, an evening at the Royal Opera House for Wayne McGregor’s MADDADDAM, and even a highland dance workshop with Charlotte McLean (the reeler in me is very tempted!).

Key dates:
📅 9–15 Oct: works on public view at Sotheby’s, 34–35 New Bond Street
📅 Thu 15 Oct, 6pm: Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Auction
📅 Fri 16 Oct: Sotheby’s October Contemporary Day Auction
📅 Fri 16 Oct, 6pm: the Arts Foundation online auction closes, artsfoundation.co.uk/auction 🙏
#TheArtsFoundation #Sothebys #AntonyGormley #AnishKapoor #ahmedmater
Love London for everything going on this coming we Love London for everything going on this coming week.  First up:

Tomorrow morning- early start at @sothebys with @theartsfoundation, a private tour ahead of the October Contemporary Day Auction. all in support of independent artists and creatives across the UK.

Tue 13: PAD London collectors' preview in Berkeley Square, with @tristanhoare and Taizo Kuroda (Untitled (Cracked Daizara), 2019) t@aizokurodaofficial

Tue 13 Evening: Lost & Found: The Global Hunt for Nazi-Looted Art with Christie's @Richard.Aronowitz @christies and the Quorum Network

Wed 14: Frieze London and Frieze Masters VIP day in Regent's Park

Wec 14: Celebrating The Soothsayer's Chorus with @bethgreenacre_london and @bettinaprentice just opened at Pink Floyd's old studios

#FriezeWeek #FriezeLondon #FriezeMasters #PADLondon #154ArtFair #ArtAdvisory
Celebrating Flavia and the opening of @antesala.ar Celebrating Flavia and the opening of @antesala.art tonight, a brand new space for Latin American art in London ✨🎉🥂
Great timing with @paraiso_fair, London’s very first Latin American art fair, opening next week. Massively exciting. 

@antesala.art’s inaugural show, Assembly Lines, brings together Mira Schendel, Gego (@fundagego), Maria Martins, Amalia Pica (@amaliapica), @Lizi.Sánchez, Cecilia Bengolea (@ceciliabengolea) and Iván Argote (@ivan_argote). Hugest congratulations @flavianespatti, you are a living and talking hug to the world 💕

📍 Antesala, 13 Tottenham Mews (first floor), W1T 4AQ

#Antesala #AssemblyLines #MiraSchendel #LatinAmericanArt AmaliaPic
Today, Alex Margo Arden @olddrag walked us through Today, Alex Margo Arden @olddrag walked us through her show “Nothing Personal” at the @nicoletta_fiorucci_london, curated by @vittoria.totale, with thanks to @chisenhalegallery . Privileged to be the 1st to be there before the show even opened. Alex was the very first winner of the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation Prize @friezeofficial last year.
In the show, it’s all the opposite of the title of the show, she restages the intensely personal belongings of Amy Winehouse across every room of the Foundation, her library of books, her make up, perfume and some objects that were sent to sent to her but never received. Each object was tracked down from auction catalogues, paparazzi shots etc: I was touched by her books, 
especially
combinedwith the deliberate absence of any pictures of her or sound of her music. A powerful and very different story about all the objects left after a life lived. And what we make of them for those of us left Behind, especially when celebrity is tied into it.

ALEX MARGO ARDEN
Oct 9 2026 - Jan 23 2027
Nothing Personal
On until 23 January 2027 📍 

Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation, 8 Chelsea Embankment, SW3
@tommounapress @ginnyonfrederick @eva_herzog_
#AlexMargoArden #NothingPersonal #NicolettaFiorucciFoundation #AmyWinehouse #ChisenhaleGallery
Our @spiritnowlondon gang this morning @cuturigall Our @spiritnowlondon gang this morning @cuturigallery freshly opened just 3 weeks ago in Mayfair on Ryder Street showing French designer @hubert_le_gall and his unstoppable creativity. Serpent benches, whale armchairs, animals, poetry and mythology springing from every nook and corner.
#HubertLeGall #SpiritNowLondon #CollectibleDesign #DesignArt #cuturigallery
Breakfast in St James's this morning with the Fren Breakfast in St James's this morning with the French designer @hubert_le_gall and @spiritnowlondon, Love his poetic, surreal world, tables bursting into flower, furniture twisted into a new life form.
#HubertLeGall #SpiritNowLondon #CollectibleDesign #DesignArt #StJames
Thanks to @lea_herbeth @nationalgallery Bonhams (@ Thanks to @lea_herbeth @nationalgallery Bonhams (@adrianabuckley ) for our pre opening tour this morning of the Renoir and Love exhibition that’s just opened.  Pre opening ticket sales have already outpaced sales for the Van Gogh exhibition, that tells you something.
Lea gave us such an indepth insight into Renoir’s world, his internal wrangling between adhering to the impressionist movement and his own unique painterly voice that triumphs in the end. 
Renoir can seem kitch to our current aethetic, but suspend that modern lens for a minute, and you are in a different world. This was a time, as Haussman rebuilt Paris, when women were allowed to walk the streets unaccompanied for the first time, that various codes of behaviour were subtly changing (did you know that a woman not wearing a hat was seen as provocative & flirty ? Cue fourth pic where the chap behind a hatless beauty looks as if he has read that message loud and clear).
Love the scenes of intimacy he depicts, the love of his friends, of his wife and children, of joyful dancing in les danses galantes in the parks. It’s love in the widest sense of the word. (In my little way, my breel.uk open air reels in the park I now organise in Barnes once a month  (40 people at the last one!) is my attempt to recreate exactly the joy depicted by Renoir here (last  2 pics!). Do we still seek the same 150 years later?
Do go and see the show, suspend the modern lens, and let yourself travel in time.
#Renoir #NationalGallery #LondonExhibitions #Impressionism #LondonArtscene
Just as Frieze frenzy kicks off, things are firing Just as Frieze frenzy kicks off, things are firing up all the way over in San Francisco too. K-pop star RM of BTS (or Joon) has just opened up his art collection @sfmoma.
Beautifully understated yet powerful, his show "Between You and Me" pairs 139 works from his mostly Korean collection with 39 from the museum's own holdings. Love his Yun Hyong-keuns (16 works in all) meeting Rothko, Kim Whanki's "Whanki Blue" beside a Yves Klein sponge, his To Sang-bong's Forsythia hanging with a Morandi still life.
@mgerlis writes about this show beautifully in the FT. Love the timeliness of it, as London rides the same wave, with the British Museum's new Korea exhibition and both Hyun Sook Soon and Mire Lee at Frieze (Sprüth Magers, D32).
Wish could be in two places at once.
On until 7 February 📍 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 
Second pic- 'Blue Umber '79-C6' by Yun Hyong-keun © Yun Seong-ryeol SFMOMA 

#RMxSFMOMA #KoreanArt #Dansaekhwa #YunHyongkeun #KimWhanki
So much happening in preparation for Frieze week b So much happening in preparation for Frieze week but one thing to tell you about first up is @bethgreenacre_london and @bettinaprentice ‘s show “the Soothsayers Chorus”, which has just opened at Pink Floyd’s old studios (where they recorded Another Brick in the Wall ) The show focuses on
a very important and urgent topic, the collective power of women’s voices and wisdom.  This is especially crucial in this moment of increasing toxic masculinity.
Have you seen this post - which Elon Musk agreed to- that females and low testosterone males are incapable of identifying the truth as they’re more preoccupied with what other people think, and that only high testosterone alpha males can decipher the truth and should therefore be rulers of the world??

This show is all the more urgent to counter that precise narrative.
Bringing together 16 international women artists, the exhibition reclaims the myth of Cassandra through ideas of intuition, ancestral memory and speculative futures, transforming her once-isolated voice into a collective chorus.
An incredible roster of artists including Judy Chicago, Clementine Keith-Roach, Lucia Pizzani, Manal Aldowayan, Anna Mendieta and many others.
Can’t wait to bring my group to see your show on 15th October 🌟
#thesoothsayerschorus #womeninthearts #Friezelondon #londonartscene #breakthecycle
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
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