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FREE 11 | HOT&COOL ART THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT GRAYSON PERRY A NEW ART SEASON BEGINS Dafydd Jones 2013 Grayson Perry at Royal Academy Dinner. CAPTURED BY DAFYDD JONES ISPY [email protected] >> DIARY NOTES ............. COVER IMAGE EX PRESIDENT LULA DA SILVA OF BRAZIL GRAYSON Natural History Museum LYNETTE YIADOM-BOAKYE PERRY RA CBE Monopoly Money an on-going investigation into his Serpentine Gallery POTTER In the last issue, it was noted that the mega-company, SAC Capital, by the ADAM WAYMOUTH; IDRIS KHAN; Royal Academy art world had gone all breathless over the all-powerful Securities & Exchange ANNIE MORRIS Dinner. 2013 scandal breaking around Syrian art Commission. The accusations are of Photographers' Gallery Photo: Dafydd Jones collecting dynasty, the Nahmad family. insider trading, a heavy duty offence in SIDDARTHA MUKHERJEE; Helly Nahmad, 34, ‘director’ of the New the rarefied world of American business RACHEL FEINSTEIN; JOHN CURRIN 3 Grayson Perry CBE (b. 1960) is the new generation at York gallery has now been indicted, along ‘ethics’. The SEC has teeth: remember Rialto Fish Market. Venice the Royal Academy, catching the public eye through his art with several others, over a $100 million Michael Milken (10 year prison sentence (a reinterpretation of the classical narrative vase – with a strong gambling and money-laundering network and made to pay $900 million in fines) or autobiographical element) and cross-dressing. Perry's female connected to Russian organised-crime. Ivan Boesky (3.5 years jail time and fined alter-ego ‘Claire’ is a regular feature of the London art circuit, and He faces a maximum of 92 years in jail. $100 million) unlike its spineless lately the broadcast media, and he is an open defender of the transvestite lifestyle. Grayson lives in London with his daughter UK counterpart. Already two former and wife, the author and psychotherapist, Philippa Perry. When contacted in London (where else) members of Cohen’s staff have been He won the Turner Prize in 2003. following the FBI raid, patriarch David arrested for insider trading offences Nahmad was quoted as saying: ‘I know although he himself strenuously denies almost nothing’ about the material seized any complicity – however, he has been ROXIE NAFOUSI & DAMIEN HIRST at his son’s [NYC] gallery. However, back indicted on a lesser charge of failing to GRAYSON PERRY in 2004, in a sexual harassment lawsuit supervise the two dealers in a right and Royal Academy Pinchuk Foundation. Venice DINOS CHAPMAN Serpentine Gallery against David Nahmad that was settled proper manner. Wall Street was also agog out of court, the plaintiff, a gallery when it was revealed SAC Capital had HOT & COOL ART employee, described Helly as little more paid the Fed’s approximately $614 OSCAR MURILLO than a figurehead, and said all important big spenders by the galleries and auction million to settle the insider trading case – Institute of Contemporary Arts EDITOR decisions were made then by David and rooms – appeals directly to the nouveau without admitting any wrongdoing.(!) Mike von Joel Lyle Owerko his older brother ‘Joe’ (Giuseppe). riche arrivistes from the former Soviet bloc [email protected] NEW YORK Intriguingly, the current indictment states. They are especially fond of the SAC Capital is already feeling the fall-out Anne Chabrol alleges that the illegal enterprise ‘was fawning, black-tie evening events loyally of the ‘no smoke without fire’ variety and PUBLISHER PARIS financed by a number of different manned by glamourous auction house since February has reportedly had 30%+ Karl Skogland individuals and entities, including… of their investor funds withdrawn. In a David Tidball totty. [email protected] Nahmad’s father’ [Forbes magazine]. It succinct June essay on Cohen’s position, BERLIN There is nothing the art business loves EDITORIAL transpires that Helly Nahmad’s cellphone more than when the super-rich decide to Vanity Fair magazine claimed his ASSISTANT William Wright conversations were spied on covertly by add ART to their portfolios of yachts, obsessive raison d’etre has always been to the FBI. In one, he speaks of ‘using the be the biggest, the best and Number JULIANO SALGADO; LEILA SALGADO; SEBASTIAO SALGADO; Caroline Harris SYDNEY show-off properties and trophy wives. It’s EX PRESIDENT LULA DA SILVA OF BRAZIL; OLIVER STOCKEN [email protected] family’s art business as a cover to move rich pickings for the dealers, auctioneers One. Winning is everything to Cohen, so Elizabeth Crompton around illicit money, advising a woman the damage is – effectively – already done, (Chair of the Trustees speaking) Natural History Museum MELBOURNE and art ‘advisors’ and a raw deal for the DESIGN DIRECTOR named Lisa to wire $150,000 to the bank rest who can only hope to reap the tail as the people he always desperately wants Tor Soreide DISTRIBUTION account of his father, David’ [as reported wind behind these rabid acquisitors and to impress are distancing themselves from RICHARD BACON & JONATHAN YEO BAILEY Panta Rhei Pace Gallery & STOCKISTS by The New York Times]. At the time of the wounded lion. The Vanity Fair EDITOR-AT-LARGE their record breaking headlines. Art13 London Olympia Julie Milne writing no charges related to the use of article’s lead quote shouts: ‘If Steve Michaela Freeman [email protected] [email protected] the art business to launder money are Capital Punishment Cohen gets off he will be the O.J. contained in any indictments. ‘My son Dependent on trade favours, the arts Simpson of insider trading.’ And it is still AD EXECUTIVE PUBLISHED BY likes publicity a lot,’ David Nahmad told media chortle and genuflect accordingly, possible Cohen could face a permanent Julie Milne State Media Ltd. Forbes magazine in 2007, ‘I don’t like inflating these new ‘collectors’ themselves suspension from Wall Street. But then CORRESPONDENTS LONDON publicity’. Mr Nahmad senior was also to the status of artists. Take the example there is always the art world – Steve is Clare Henry [email protected] adamant that the Helly Nahmad Gallery of Steve Cohen, hedge funder and Wall sure to find it much less ‘ethical’. Ian McKay in London had nothing whatsoever to do Street superman. He started acquiring art PRINTED BY William Varley with the whole affair in the USA. only in 2000 and his boots are now licked The Life of Brian Garnett Dickinson Hillel Nahmad’s cousin – also named Dear old Brian Sewell, oft referred to as Georgina Turner Rotherham S63 5DL by every art worker he comes across, Hillel and also known as ‘Helly’ – runs however exalted. Back in 2006, the arts the ‘distinguished critic’ by his mentor – the Cork Street based London gallery. media nudged and winked and gurgled the Daily Mail (not Anthony Blunt) – While he attended London’s prestigious pops up again to tell the world about LARA BOHINC SEBASTIAO SALGADO TIM NOBLE with schadenfreude at news of his little MARIANNA STATE MAGAZINE is available through selected Courtauld Institute, the New York Helly his forthcoming suicide plans. All Sewell Photographers' Gallery Natural History Museum Serpentine Gallery mishap with billionaire buddy, Steve Studio Voltaire galleries, libraries, art schools, museums and reputedly dropped out of an art course at Wynn, the Las Vegas casino magnate. As ever wanted was to be accepted by the other art venues across the UK. Christie’s in 1997. The family’s worth is Cohen was about to buy Picasso’s 1932 politburo of Academia, but it was never estimated at $3 billion, including one of oil of his mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter going to happen. His fall-back role of Totally free, STATE is about new the best collections of Impressionist and (Le Reve) for $139 million, Wynn newspaper critic has slipped into that manoeuvres in painting and the Modernist art in the world, with one of inadvertently stuck his elbow through the of pantomime dame of late – as Sewell the largest holdings of Picasso in private now regales readers with his tales of visual arts – combined with f22, canvas creating a [silver] dollar sized hole. hands. Needless to say, they are the homosexual dalliances on park benches a supplement on developments in Good ‘ole boys together! Now, following darlings of the top auction houses and a near perfect restoration (nothing can be and other exotic activities. the fusion of art & photography. high end art business. 100%) Cohen has bought Le Reve from Wynn for $155 million. And why not Last July, it was a rough draft public It is not a review magazine – Red Sales in the Sunset you might ask? He already has a number suicide note (and musings on the final it is about PEOPLE worth serious We are told there are 300,000 Russians of iconic, status pieces including Francis curtain) given the usual regal treatment consideration; PLACES that living in London and it is regarded as Bacon’s Screaming Pope, and Damien the Daily Mail reserves for any jottings by are hot and happening; and a ‘second’ city to Moscow. The super- Hirst’s infamous shark in 224 gallons of their ‘distinguished critic’. When the old PROJECTS developing in the rich Eastern Europeans have quickly formaldehyde (Cohen paid $8 million for stick popped up on television, recreating the 18th century Grand Tour (SkyArts), international art world. discovered that wealth cushions you from the 22-ton piece in 2006). Because – anything and everything in the UK, elsewhere, Steve’s multi-million dollar he made a damn good fist of it. The Reception & dinner. Rialto Fish Market. Venice To apply to stock STATE Magazine, please mail especially interference by the authorities – investment manoeuvres are under some further potential of Sewell TV should have be spotted.