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Stories from The Mayor Gallery 1973
April 2, 2020Image: Advert for Parke-Bernet which ran in ArtForum, October 1971 featuring James Mayor and Sarah Lee Picasso. Click here for Artnet's full story on this Ad. During this time we... -
Stories from The Mayor Gallery 1974
April 9, 2020Agnes Martin The first time I met Agnes Martin was at her exhibition in 1973 at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art. I went with my friends Dan and Jenny... -
Stories from The Mayor Gallery 1975
April 16, 2020James Rosenquist Jim Rosenquist hadn’t been shown at all in London so I felt that it was high time to remedy the situation. Like Agnes Martin and Andy Warhol who... -
Stories from The Mayor Gallery 1976
April 23, 2020Joseph Cornell At the beginning of 1976, the whole Art world was still in a very slow recovery after the market collapse which came in June 1974. It caught everybody... -
Stories from The Mayor Gallery 1977
April 30, 2020Barnett Newman In early January, I had arranged to meet Gerry Elliott in Basle in order to view Barnett Newman's Queen of the Night at Galerie Beyeler. When we arrived... -
Stories from The Mayor Gallery 1978
May 7, 2020Lee Miller and Man Ray The year started with the second exhibition that I had done with Timothy Baum. It was entitled 'Landscapes and Ladies: Lee Miller and Man Ray... -
Stories from The Mayor Gallery 1979
May 14, 2020Andrew Murray and the Regional Museums I first met Andrew Murray in Paris in 1967 when he was working at the Galerie Coard. After the Paris riots of May 1968,... -
Stories from The Mayor Gallery 1980
May 22, 2020Douglas Hall and The Scottish Gallery of Modern Art Douglas was the founding director of the museum until his retirement in 1986. Some people might say that he had... -
Stories from The Mayor Gallery 1981
May 28, 2020Middlesbrough Art Gallery This was our third loan exhibition from regional museums. Geoff Watson, who was in charge of the council’s finances, and Ken Cousins, who was the curator of... -
Stories from The Mayor Gallery 1982
June 4, 2020Ferens Art Gallery The director, John Bradshaw, had worked for my father so we had a particularly good relationship with the museum. Andrew Murray had recently sold them a couple... -
Stories from The Mayor Gallery 1983
June 11, 2020Robert Scull I was just 21 when I first met Bob at Parke Bernet (where I was working) in the spring of 1970, in front of Warhol’s Big Torn... -
Stories from The Mayor Gallery 1984
June 18, 2020Sir Roland Penrose Roland died on St. George’s Day (23 April) exactly 77 years after his late wife’s - Lee Miller - birth. My father met him in Cassis... -
Stories from The Mayor Gallery 1985
June 25, 2020A Tribute to Leo Castelli This exhibition marked the completion of the gallery's renovations in which the squash court was directly connected with the old gallery space. The aim of... -
Stories from The Mayor Gallery 1986
July 2, 2020Robert Fraser 1937-1986 I only really met Robert when he returned from India at the end of 1979. We became immediate friends and from then on in barely a day... -
Stories from The Mayor Gallery 1987
July 9, 2020Andy Warhol When British Vogue called me at home on the Sunday afternoon of February 22nd to ask me to write an obituary for Andy, you can imagine my shock... -
Stories from The Mayor Gallery 1988
July 16, 2020Mayor Rowan Gallery In 1962, Alex Gregory-Hood founded the Rowan Gallery, in Belgravia, soon after leaving the army after 25 years of distinguished service. He moved to Bruton Place in... -
Stories from The Mayor Gallery 1989
July 23, 2020Warhol / Basquiat The first time that these Warhol/Basquiat collaborations were shown in 1985 was at Tony Shafrazi's gallery with the now famous poster of Andy and Jean-Michel dressed as... -
Stories from The Mayor Gallery 1990
July 30, 2020F. E. McWilliam In the middle of the 17th century, the then Lord Holland planted an avenue of mulberry trees at Holland House. His idea was to make his own...
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