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London is not so bad, everyone who left came back for Frieze week, there was a great feeling of euphoria. Great to see our Alicia Kwade work (Pernot, 2007) hanging in the Dover Street entrance
Mr Trump added to this atmosphere by as he called it - ‘making peace in the middle east’. There was a wonderful and spectacular show by Andreas Gursky at White Cube. We adored his new rave photographs
I went to the Nigerian Modernism at Tate Modern - there were some marvellous moments. Nike Davies-Ojundaye’s headgear was show stopping
Here she is kindly helping Muriel from Cranford Collection try on her head-dress
I stopped in my tracks to look at the 1960s painting by Demas Nwoko ‘Night Club in Dakar’ which was so vibrant and alive
Then we jumped to the British Museum and their exhibition: Nordic Noir: works on paper from Edvard Munch to Mamma Andersson where Anna Zimmerman had created ‘Venus 2023.’ She is concentrating on the props and costumes of the 18th century
The only noir present was Sverre Malling’s ‘Örvar-Odd’r (Arrow-Odd) - a reference to ‘Hesteofringen’ (Horse Sacrifice), a protest to the Vietnam war initiated by artist Bjørn Nørgaard 1970 where the ritual dissection of a dead horse was captured on a super8 film and shown on Danish TV
I head of to the Serpentine South and the amazing opening of Peter Doig where HUO interviews Peter and he talks to us about his spectacular show. A must visit - for me this is the best show I have ever seen in the Serpentine. And the DSP Sound Service Sundays are going to make Serpentine so popular this winter!
Everyone was mesmerised by his use of the Lion, it felt like it was going to jump out of the paintings
At Levy Gorvy Dayan was a beautiful exhibition of works by Leonor Fini (1907–1996)
One of the most beautiful paintings - as I entered I was enchanted
Then to The Perimeter and there was a wonderfully curated show of works by the brilliant Christopher Williams – many of which I had never seen
Then it was Camden Arts Centre and the incredible charged work of Karimah Ashadu. This work is called ‘Muscle’ - the film reveals tension and it is a performance of Masculinity using the water bags in an almost ritualistic way
Then a lovely surprise at Hauser & Wirth, a great exhibition by Cristina Iglesias. It was an emotional force. The works are integrated with a water system to give the impression of water gargling up from the earth. It was so symphonic
In contrast was the Happy Happy works of Nicholas Party - exciting and full of brightness
I had time to check out Christie's and Architects for the Birds, a project conceived by Lord Foster and Marie Donnelly to benefit the Tessa Jowell Foundation. It was so much fun. Lord Foster of Thames Bank, Renzo Piano, David Chipperfield, Grafton Architects, Sou Fujimoto, Lina Ghotmeh, Jacques Herzog, Frida Escobedo, Farshid Moussavi, and Kazuyo Sejima had been asked to create their version of a bird house
My favourite was ‘Utensils’ by Jacques Herzog. The Show was a strapping success, and they made a substantial amount to improve treatment for brain cancer
Oh and in other news - Burkinabé-German architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has been selected as the architect for the LACMA Las Vegas – here are Emily and Johnny Jossel congratulating him! Such an exciting development for Vegas
