The party on Thursday was in the IAC Building, down on 18th. Street and designed by Frank Gehry.   I didn’t have a chance to appreciate its strange, curvilinear, milky façade in the rain and the dark, but yesterday it was billowing in all its glory:-

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I had read that David Zwirner’s gallery had been designed by Annabelle Selldorf, so was surprised that the gallery on 19th. Street, where there was a beautiful Bridget Riley exhibition, was so unexpectedly low-key.   It turned out that the Selldorf building was one block north, an exercise in very minimal, sculptural shuttered concrete, entirely appropriate for showing the work of Donald Judd:-

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I am in New York for the annual gala of Royal Academy America.   It was quite a wonderful event (in the American sense of ‘quite’):  champagne supplied by Moet & Chandon;  honorees including Cornelia Parker and Jeff Koons;  and a speech by Agnes Gund, the President Emerita of the Museum of Modern Art, in honour of Jeff Koons which was as thoughtful and profound a statement of one generation in support of the next as I have ever heard.   I tried to take a picture of Agnes Gund as she gave her speech but failed because it was very unrhetorical:-

I did better with Jeff Koons:-

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I was late for my 3 o’clock meeting in New York, but at least got a brief glimpse of Manhattan from the 45th. floor.   More Alvin Langdon Coburn (but slightly marred by reflections on the glass):-