In honour of Frieze week, I did something which I should do more often, namely visit the galleries in the vicinity of the RA, starting at Alan Cristea in Cork Street.   He is showing an exhibition of new work by Cornelia Parker, based on photographs of silver ware in Spink which she found in a skip and has converted into short run editions of prints.   He also has a room full of installation works by Edmund de Waal and new prints by Michael Craig-Martin.

I liked the exhibition at Ordovas on Savile Row installed round one of Damien Hirst’s sharks and based round the theme of the sea, including a fragment of a Roman sarcophagus, a wonderful Yves Klein and works by Picasso, Francis Bacon and Max Ernst.
The best of the exhibitions I saw was the beautiful and unexpectedly extensive exhibition of early Hockney portrait drawings in the new Offer Waterman gallery in St. George Street.   The gallery is an early eighteenth-century house which was once once the showroom of William Morris and has been immaculately converted (look at the oak floorboards).    The drawings date back to 1961, when Hockney was still a student at the RCA:-