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Muriel Salem isn’t at home when I visit her Regent’s Park residence on a rain-soaked autumn day. In spite of Covid, she is in Montpellier, where an exhibition of artworks selected from her and husband Freddy’s collection is about to go on show at MO.CO – a public museum without a collection of its own. Langret joins us on a trip to Mayfair to see the first UK solo show by American painter Dana Schutz at Thomas Dane. On the way, Salem confesses that Schutz is one of the artists she has been eyeing for the collection for years.

We bid adieu to Langret, who is late for a Zoom talk, and head a few streets over to Pippy Houldsworth Gallery. While the gallery is technically not part of the official Frieze program, Salem is keen to catch the show of the rising star painter Jadé Fadojutimi.Over truffle and ricotta tortelloni, she confides, “It is often like this, but if it was really the case every single time, we would have nothing in our collection.” The star-studded film is directed by Richard Lester ( A Hard Day’s Night, Help!) and to accompany the release, the equally thrilling sequel, The Four Musketeers, has also enjoyed the same 4k treatment. Since 2005, works of art from the Collection have been presented in the form of temporary installations at a private house located at Gloucester Gate in Regent’s Park. This unusual setting has enabled the Collection to explore original associations between artworks. It also offers the unique challenge of how to successfully present contemporary artworks in a domestic environment, demonstrating that the experience of an artwork can be constantly renewed by rotating the works exhibited. Gaskell's best known work is set in a small rural town, inhabited largely by women. This is a community that runs on cooperation and gossip, at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector: Miss Deborah Jenkyns and her sister Miss Matty. But domestic peace is constantly threatened in the form of financial disaster, imagined burglaries, tragic accidents, and the reapparance of long-lost relatives. Read more Details Cranford Collection’s installations are open to the public by appointment and are the setting of numerous visits by museum boards, curators, artists as well as educational programs.

Whilst attempting to foil the Cardinal’s plans, D’Artagnan finds himself also juggling affairs with both the charming Constance Bonancieux (Raquel Welch) as well as the passionate Milady De Winter (Faye Dunaway), a secret agent for the Cardinal…. Because their heroines are women who embody freedom and the importance of being oneself. Women who are proud of being women and who insist on their rights and their role in society. Originally conceived as a vehicle for The Beatles, it was ultimately decided that the Fab Four‘s personalities risked overshadowing the characters and the idea was shelved. Throughout production, Richard Lester insisted on secrecy from cast and crew for fear that his ideas may be stolen by any of the four other adaptations of the book that were also in production at the time. However, the film was both a critical and commercial hit on release and garnered Raquel Welch a Best Actress Golden Globe. This is the generation that I started collecting British art with,” she says, gesturing to the work by the YBAs. “At the time, it was all happening in London. I t was ‘Cool Britannia,’ and everyone was interested in contemporary art. Sarah Lucas, Rebecca Warren, and Gary Hume—that was my cool Britain.” Salem owns an edition of Wantee , the work that won Prouvost the Turner Prize in 2013. “I am happy that Laure hasn’t stopped surprising us with her creativity,” she says.

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In any year but this one, a tour of Frieze would involve tripping across the road to the white tents in Regent’s Park. This year, the fair is happening online, but as a collector who values close physical encounters with art, Salem is eschewing the digital surrogate. “I’m an old-fashioned girl,” she says as she dons a chic leopard-print raincoat. “I need to see the work in person.” Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Louisa May Alcott… Timeless Classics offers you a superb selection of novels that revolutionised the female universe.

Their acquisitions began seriously in 1999, when Muriel, with the help of Andrew Renton, started touring the East End galleries and absorbing the fervour of young artists who were then emerging in London. “I’d been closely involved with these people like Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas who were becoming superstars,” says Renton, an art advisor and curator who was also finding his own way as he established the first curating course at Goldsmiths’. “Those were exciting times.” The curator of the collection, Anne Pontégnie, who has been working with the Salems for nine years, explains that this hang reflects the collectors’ own evolution. “A lot of women and under-appreciated artists of the 20th century are now being reconsidered,” Pontégnie says. “We really embraced that, and it has opened up new dimensions for us into recent art history.” Timeless Classics : a jewel of Victorian publishing designed to occupy a permanent place on our bookshelves Image credit: Vues de l’exposition “00s. Collection Cranford : les années 2000” / courtesy Cranford Collection / MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain The exhibition 00s. Collection Cranford : les années 2000 focuses on this as yet unexplored decade, which has still to be fully defined. For this reason, the works in the exhibition will be presented chronologically. A timeline will chart the key events of this period and connect them to paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures and videos from this prestigious collection.It doesn’t take long to reach our first stop. While the physical fair is off, Frieze has decided to mount its sculpture park in Regent’s Park anyway. A s we pass an oversize green door by Gavin Turk and a playful concrete sandwich by Sarah Lucas, s he opens up about her introduction to collecting in the early 2000s, which began with the acquisition of an altered piece of Eames furniture by the Scottish sculptor Martin Boyce. While this is believable—Fadojutimi is the youngest artist currently in Tate’s collection and has just been profiled in Vogue —I ask Salem over lunch whether that response is not just part of the obligatory courting dance that happens when you buy art. will offer a reading of the world through art (or of art through the world) with the aim of teasing out an image of a decade which remains loosely defined, and of establishing whether a coherent relationship emerges between works whose only apparent connection is the era in which they were created. By placing the emphasis on volume (with approximately one hundred exhibited artworks), the range of mediums, as well as the diversity of the artists’ ages and nationalities, the exhibition will establish a dialogue between art and topical issues, and seek to reveal how the 2000s have transformed our global cultures, geopolitics and economy, as well as our ecological awareness. It’s testimony to the quality of the work they collect, as well as their generosity in lending it out. “It’s the responsibility of a collector,” says Muriel Salem, “to look after an artist’s work, to show it, and to share it. Nearly everything in this house has been in a fabulous museum at some point.” Vincent Honoré, Director of Exhibitions, Victor Secretan, Senior Curator, Anya Harrison, Curator et Rahmouna Boutayeb, Project Manager, assisted by Justine Vic