NUMBERS GAME: London’s Frieze Art fair rolled all the way through the weekend, and the parties didn’t stop. Among them was a dinner that Charles Finch, film industry veteran and founder of the cinema-focused title A Rabbit’s Foot hosted alongside Bettina Korek, chief executive officer of Serpentine.
Guests from the worlds of art and film gathered at hot boutique hotel The Twenty Two in Grosvenor Square for a roast chicken dinner (with chocolate brownies for dessert) during the buzzy fair where artwork was selling quickly, almost as soon as the doors opened.
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Artists including Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Marc Quinn and Yinka Ilori broke sourdough bread with film folks including director Baff Akoto and actors Daryl McCormack, Claire Forlani, Greta Bellamacina and Josie Ho.
Gallerists, collectors and art experts at the table included Ben Brown, Maja Hoffmann and Katy Hessel, whose book “The Story of Art Without Men,” was an instant bestseller last year.
Collector Jean Pigozzi, who’s been making waves in the art world, was also in the room. Pigozzi plans to donate his large contemporary African art collection to a new museum in Cannes. It will be at the Saint-Roch chapel, and is set to open in 2026.
Finch said he was keen to get the crowd together as A Rabbit’s Foot “has always had film and culture at its heart.” He said Serpentine, including chairman Michael Bloomberg and Hans Ulrich Obrist, the galleries’ artistic director, have supported him forever, and are always interested in looking at the intersection of art and film.
The dinner was one of many big moments Finch has planned in the coming months for A Rabbit’s Foot and his various other businesses.
The next issue of A Rabbit’s Foot will hit shelves on Dec. 7, with the theme of “cars, bikes, motorbikes and the movies,” he said.
Tierney Gearon has photographed a spread on surfers and what they ride on dry land, while another feature is dedicated and the late director William Friedkin, whose car chase scene in “The French Connection,” has become part of the cinematic canon.
Finch is also reprising his Power of Film series of talks in London in 2024, and said he’s hopeful the Hollywood actors’ strike will come to an end soon so that his production company can start casting “Miss Julie,” one of a series of films he has in the pipeline. “It’s ready to go,” he said.