BizJournals Portfolio
Home >   Business Views, Opinions and Blogs >   Business Blogs >   Figure Painting >  

London Bound

Figure Painting

by Callen Bair and Felix Salmon
Main
Laying the Law Down in France   Frieze: Opening Day

Recent Blog Posts

Links

Oct 10 2007 12:00am EDT

London Bound

London's calling. Frieze is in the air. In addition to the main event, there are a number of satellite fairs — the Zoo Art Fair is ditching the fauna at the London Zoo for the far more official sounding Royal Academy of Arts, and the inaugural edition of Design Art London reflects the snowballing interest in furniture that you pay a lot of money for but don't actually use. Museums and galleries are pulling out all the stops with the Turner Prize retrospective at Tate Britain, a Louise Bourgeois retrospective at Tate Modern, "The Painting of Modern Life" at the Hayward Gallery, and Matthew Barney's "Drawing Restraint" at Serpentine. And all eyes will be on several highly anticipated auctions rounding out the week to parse sales results for signs of the apocalypse. "Bacon's Blessing" may turn out to be an entirely appropriate moniker for this painting — or an ironic one that everyone would rather forget. I'm headed to London this afternoon — hence, radio silence on "Figure Painting" for the rest of the day — and will be blogging from Regent's Park and beyond for the rest of the week and weekend.

Comments

If you are commenting using a Facebook account, your profile information may be displayed with your comment depending on your privacy settings. By leaving the 'Post to Facebook' box selected, your comment will be published to your Facebook profile in addition to the space below.


Connect With Portfolio.com
Like Portfolio on Facebook

Come on, like us—you know you want to.

Follow Portfolio on Twitter

Follow us and if you're an innovative entrepreneur, we'll return the favor.

The Mix

Today's top stories, conversation starters, and the back nine business bites.

spotlight on

Slideshows

500 Startups Hits New York

Dave McClure's brainchild makes its way to New York and introduces East Coast money folks to some intriguing new companies. View Slideshow