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BlackBook Back in the Swing Mike Eghan at Piccadilly Circus, London (1967), left, and Sick Hagemeyer Shop Assistant (c1957) by Ghana-born photographer James Barnor, shown at an ongoing exhibition at the Serpentine North Gallery BEST IN SHOW Art on Our Minds A shortlist of horizon-broadening exhibitions across London This year, there won’t be a Serpentine Party – the annual art-world gala that counts among the hottest invitations of the summer season – but there will be a Serpentine Pavilion (serpentinegalleries. org). Back in 2000, the public art gallery commissioned an experimental temporary structure from Zaha Hadid, which stood in Kensington Gardens from June till the autumn and established what has become a tradition. Over the years, a succession of the world’s greatest architects – Daniel Libeskind, Oscar Niemeyer, Rem Koolhaas, Olafur Eliasson, Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and Bjarke Ingels among them – have created pavilions for the park. This year’s iteration, by the Johannesburg practice Counterspace, will run from on 11 June till 17 October. Indoors, the Serpentine will be showing work by the New York-based painter Jennifer Packer (to 22 August) and the British-Ghanaian photographer James Barnor (to 22 October). Among the high-profile museum shows scheduled for this summer are David Hockney and Michael Armitage at the Royal Academy (royalacademy.org.uk, till 26 and 19 September, respectively); Paula Rego (7 July to 24 October) at Tate Britain; Rodin (to 21 November), and not to mention Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms (till June 2022), at Tate Modern (tate.org. uk); Jean Dubuffet at the Barbican (to 22 August, barbican.org.uk) and Eileen Agar at the Whitechapel Gallery (to 29 August, whitechapelgallery.org). As to buying art, it’s worth noting that Pace Gallery (pacegallery.com) is leaving its premises in the Royal Academy for Hanover Square, and 800 squares metres of space vacated last year by Blain|Southern and now reconfigured and designed by Jamie Fobert Architects. No word on its opening show yet. But given the calibre of its artists, which range from the giants of AbEx to Jeff Koons, by way of younger painters such as Adrian Ghenie, Loie Hollowell and Mao Yan, expect something stellar. ONE-STOP SHOP BUZZWORTHY BROWNS A recent installation by American artist Robert Mangold at Pace Gallery When in 1970, Sidney and Joan Burstein opened the first Browns boutique, they created a legend. Later, the venerable Mrs B, as the fashion cognoscenti know her, bumped into Calvin Klein at Studio 54, she persuaded him to launch his brand in the UK. Three years on, wowed by John Galliano’s degree show, she bought his entire collection. No one has an eye for the superbrands of the future like she does. This summer, after half a century on South Molton Street, its flagship moves to a new home on Brook Street, complete with a club, a concierge, a bar (and a nail bar), a restaurant (with outdoor seating) – and even a resident tattoo artist (by appointment). And, of course, there’ll be womenswear, menswear, shoes and jewellery, too. brownsfashion.com PHOTOS CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: © JAMES BARNOR/AUTOGRAPH ABP; COURTESY AUTOGRAPH; GETTY IMAGES; © ARS, NY AND DACS, LONDON 2021; PHOTO: DAMIAN GRIFFITHS/COURTESY PACE GALLERY 32 CENTURION-MAGAZINE.COM PLEASE CHECK THE LATEST GOVERNMENT ADVICE BEFORE BOOKING TRAVEL OR DEPARTING ON ANY TRIP
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