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Back in New York and we visited Jeffrey Deitch’s ‘The Private Collection of Water McBeer’ – a very strange and wonderful dollhouse
I loved ‘Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power’ at the Brooklyn Museum, showing works produced by black artists from 1963 to 1983. Frank Bowling’s powerful paintings were on show, this one is from 1969 and called ‘Dan Johnsons Surprise’
I had time to visit the studio of Robin F. Williams with Wendy Olsoff from PPOW. I was most impressed with the power of her work and her incredible painting techniques
My lovely girlfriends were also achieving so much! Wendy Fisher was chairing the very glam Guggenheim International Gala Dinner
David Maupin and I had a lovely picture taken of us
It was wonderful to bump into Francois Chantala, Simon Preston and Carla Camacho at the gala in honour Dimitris Daskalopoulos
Over at The Plaza Jill Bernstein was chairing AFIM’s Annual Gala which was raising funds for the Israel Museum, she looked magnificent
Tiffany opened a remarkable show with artist Hayden Dunham at Times Square Space. The show ‘inside darkness, there are no lines’ featured works made during her two month residency at the space
I felt like I was walking through a voluminous post-apocalyptic black cave full of organic hazardous waste
I had the sense I wanted to hold my breath in case I caught some kind of bacterial disease
Unfortunately my lovely old Dad died. It was very sad, but also a celebration of life. One of his last photographs was in front of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Serpentine London sculpture saying ‘that’s it folks’. This is the most cherished picture of my father
The next morning after the funeral in my hometown Newcastle upon Tyne the family all set off over the bridge to Gateshead to see one of our old Invites artists, Heather Phillipson. Her show ‘The Age of Love’ was wonderful and we had some time to escape from our grief. The big cat stared down from us from wherever we stood with ‘apocalyptic undertones’
I was very interested in the retrospective of Rasheed Araeen’s work. A politically outspoken experimental artist who arrived in London in the 1960s from Karachi and created some unique works
Back in London - David Ostrowski at Sprüth Magers
I even had time to throw a baby shower for a future art baby produced by Maria Baibakova!
An amazing Zab Staff Christmas party followed with some fun in the Escape Rooms of Kentish Town
The Zab Team were challenged…
…to the limit of their intelligence!
We had a jovial Christmas lunch all coordinated in red and green. I obviously did not read the memo correctly
At the National Gallery I celebrated the debut of Rachel Maclean’s work ‘The Lion and The Unicorn’, first shown in our Zabludowicz Collection Invites programme in 2014. She was with her family and the National Gallery’s Director Gabriele Finaldi
The National dedicated a whole gallery especially for her work in response to acquiring the painting ‘The Monarch of the Glen’ by Landseer, reflecting Maclean’s engagement with issues of national identity
