You could get a portrait done by the brothers for £4,500. It'll be shown in the Tate Liverpool show and then you get to keep it. Adrian Searle writes about it in the Guardian (find the link yourself).
There were at least three artworks featuring Kate Moss. We saw her there during the day on Wednesday with Jefferson, Gwyneth(sp?) Paltrow and a bunch of other people (possibly Jefferson's new model girlfriend?). Also saw Claudia Schiffer who I misidentified as Elle McPherson. Typical, I'm always getting my supermodels muddled up.
We went to Jim and Greg's civil partnership ("marriage" in other words) the other week. It was at Islington Town Hall followed by a lovely traditional weddding lunch at the Almeida (Oysters, steak and chocolate mousse: Champagne and Sancerre). Guests danced the night away at the Century Club on Shaftesbury Avenue with carriages ("Minicab? Minicab?") booked for 1am ("Minicab? Hackney - fifteen pounds."). More pictures to come.
We went to the CSM MA show last night. Having been to the show every year for the last seven years seeing the work of friends I'm more enamoured with the spaces than most of the work. There were a few pieces I liked - the shark, the landscapes on mutilated MDF, the sheet of A4 text - but Jim got most excited by the fact that JG Ballard was there. He looks really normal (which I suppose shouldn't surprise me but did) and wasn't freaked out by this guy badly pretending not to be taking pictures of him.
I went to Calais for the day with my cousin, her husband an my aunt. I wandered off on my own in the supermarket and bought a mixed assortment of wine and cider. This is where we had lunch, it's called Flunch - it looks much nicer in the picture than it was in real life but the food was OK. You can read more about Flunch by clicking on the photo. (They should market Flunch in the UK under the slogan "Flunch - what the French call lunch."
Been making photos from our French holiday look like models (sort of). This uses Christopher Phin's Photoshop tutorial at http://recedinghairline.co.uk/tutorials/fakemodel
I've been helping Yol who's been given a dozen or so eating places to review. On paper this sounds fantastic but having to eat out that many times in a few weeks isn't all it's cut out to be, particularly when you don't get to choose the places you eat in. Off the top of my head the places I liked were Jones's Dairy in Columbia Road; Story Cafe off Brick Lane (this picture was taken outside of Story) and the rest have become a bit of a blur. My problem is that I probably wouldn't eat in either place normally. The bad places were terrible and the worst was Cafe Boheme on Old Compton Street where I was served cold steak and chips. On the upside they did me a new steak and chips and gave me a very large glass of wine which pushed me over the edge as I'd already been drinking the free bar at Adam's book launch earlier that evening.
Been busy seeing art for the last week. This is Cathy's show at Stella Vine's new gallery space. She's kept the Rosy Wilde name from her place in Whitecross Street and it's above the Ann Summer's on Wardour Street. The night we went was pretty packed and very very hot. In this picture Cathy still hasn't arrived but Stella's on the far side taking pics.
